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Join the Virtuous Cycle.
A revolution in Venture Capital.

The California Innovation Fund powers a cycle of education, innovation, and entrepreneurship to make VC more equitable and create impactful positive change.

Venture funding and the backing of a strong community of UC alumni and faculty.

As entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and friends we do everything we can to help ground-breaking entrepreneurs succeed. We fuel the education of the next generation of entrepreneurs by re-investing 50% of our GP carry into the public University of California system.

FreeWire Technologies

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Electrification Beyond the Grid

In our interview with Arcady Sosinov, founder and CEO of FreeWire Technologies, he discusses the challenge of product market fit.

FreeWire Technologies’s products enable the scalable deployment of ultrafast electric vehicle charging – in a fraction of the time and cost it would take for conventional charging solutions.

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UC alumni are embedded throughout the Silicon Valley innovation ecosystem, from C-suite leadership to Venture Capital. The California Innovation Fund was created by and for this powerful community, nourishing the next generation of UC researchers and entrepreneurs via a virtuous innovation cycle. 

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