ICA's 8th Annual Business Reception

 

 

Inner City Advisors’ (ICA) 8th Annual Business Reception & Benefit Auction brought together a diverse group of over 300 business and community leaders in honor of local entrepreneurs who are helping to create jobs and build thriving inner cities. Participants enjoyed delectable food and drinks from local businesses, such as Brown Sugar Kitchen, Kuwa, Le Cheval Huaracha Azteca, and Magnificent Quiche.

ICA Adds Three New Portfolio Companies!

ICA is proud to welcome three new companies to our Portfolio:  Brown Sugar Kitchen, Clinica la Luna y el Sol, and D-Unique Tools.  

ICA and Blue Bottle featured in Urban Success 2009

 “Inner City Advisors eases the process of growing a business in the inner city” begins the article featured in the winter publication of Urban Success Magazine. The article continues to tell the story of how ICA helps local businesses and quotes James Freeman, CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee Company, saying, “there’s one ICA Advisor who can look at a profit and loss statement the way a musician can look at a musical score.” 

The full article is attached below.

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Inner City Advisors

Inner City Advisors (ICA) helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community and contribute to the local economy. We accomplish our mission by providing our Portfolio Companies and other local entrepreneurs with high caliber consulting, strategic advice, entrepreneurship education and access to resources and professional networks.

Coffee obsession becomes business

Blue Bottle Coffee Company recently appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle.  To see the full article visit:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/18/MN7718HME9.DTL

ICA Clients in the News

ICA Clients are making the news this summer and fall. Here are a few places where they have been seen.