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{Hella Hacking} A Snapshot of Oakland’s

Growing Tech Ecosystem

July 2016

Presented by Cedric Brown

Chief of Community Engagement

Welcome to the

Kapor Center

The Kapor Center for Social Impact aims to make the technology

ecosystem and entrepreneurship more diverse and inclusive.

We believe that when the community of tech leaders reflects the diversity

of the United States, tech will play an integral role in closing gaps and

disparities that exist in this country.

Our Priority Activities

• Increasing diverse tech entrepreneurship.

• Increasing access to capital.

• Increasing access to tech and

STEM education.

• Building strong community and community

institutions to promote a more diverse tech

ecosystem in the Bay Area, with a special

focus on Oakland, our home.

• Leveraging our Oakland HQ to help

build/expand the startup ecosystem of

gap-closing companies, especially in

Oakland.

OAKLAND:

Among the 13

Hottest American

Cities for 2016

Among the 52

Places to go

in 2016

4th Most Diverse

City in America

3rd Most Likeable

City in the US

Oakland is on

the cusp of a revival –

an economic growth

period fueled in part

by technology and

the arts.”

“

The mural at the Betti Ono art gallery, Sunday, Nov. 1. Photo by Tulio Ospina.

No. 3 Among

Best Startup

Cities in America

Oakland’s

Tech

Ecosystem

Source: Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Updated November 2016.

440+ Companies

6,200 Approximately

JOBS

Source: Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Updated November 2016.

Average

Number of

Employees 25

Source: Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Updated November 2016.

(Some of) Oaktown’s Finest:

5 Co-Working

Spaces

11 Incubators,

Accelerators,

and

Entrepreneurship

Resources

9

Investment Firms

5 Nationally-Known Civic

Tech Organizations

Oakland.js

East Bay WordPress Meetup

East Bay Design & Animation

Coding with Learn Tech Labs

East Bay Startups & Techies

Bay Area Black Designers

Food Tech Startups

East Bay Conscious Startup Meetup

Oakland PyLadies

Oaklean: The Lean Design

Community

60+ Oakland Tech

Meetup Groups

18 Tech

Training

Entities

PROJECT

Computer Science

Education 400% increase

in OUSD high school students

taking computer science courses

(in one year)

Source: http://bit.ly/2feBB7a

Computer Science

Education

Oakland Computer

Science for All and

Code.org partnerships

aims to get CS ed in

every school for every

student in every grade

Computer Science

Education

$5M pilot from Intel; ongoing partnerships with

Cisco, SAP, & Microsoft

(TEALS)

Key Partners include:

Peralta Community College

Oakland Unified School District

Oakland Workforce Investment Board

East Bay Works

Hack the Hood

California Emerging Technology Fund

The Hidden Genius Project

The Stride Center

#YesWeCode

Urban Strategies Council

TechHire Initiative

400+ Paid Internships

& Full-time jobs secured

for Oaklanders

How do we

leverage and

build these and

other assets?

By Angus Montgomery May 12, 2016

4 Vital Collaboration Tables: Strengthening Oakland’s tech connectedness

1 2 3 4

Tech Equity

Collaborative:

Good Tech Citizenship

& Community

Engagement

Tech Talent Pathways

Partnership (T2P2)

Training & Jobs for

Oaklanders

Oakland Tech

Entrepreneurship

Network:

The Town as a Startup

Incubator

East Bay Slingshot

Initiative’s ICT

Partnership:

Strengthening Employer

& Community Ties

Together we can

make Oakland

the home of

Tech Done Right!

MBK Hackathon, Qeyno Labs, Tech Equity Week 2016

Special thanks to

Barb Gee, Marisa Raya,

James Nixon, Czarina Chung

(mutmut.com), and all who

contributed to this overview.