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West Coast Community Bank is a full-service community bank headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, serving Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties since 2004. The bank is dedicated to community involvement, actively supporting local well-being through participation and donations to regional nonprofit organizations. In 2024, it merged with 1st Capital Bancorp to enhance its capabilities and better serve the community, with plans to rebrand all branches as West Coast Community Bank by 2025. The bank offers a variety of financial services for both businesses and individuals. These include business loans, commercial real estate financing, asset-based lending, construction lending, and agricultural loans. It also provides SBA and USDA government guaranteed loans, credit cards, merchant services, and digital banking solutions. For personal banking, West Coast Community Bank offers competitive deposit solutions and consumer banking services. The bank is recognized as a leading SBA lender in Santa Cruz County and Silicon Valley, reflecting its strong support for local businesses.
Tatte Bakery & Café is a fast-casual bakery and café chain founded in 2007 by pastry chef Tzurit Or. Starting from her home kitchen, Or began selling baked goods at Boston farmers markets. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Tatte has grown to 18 locations in Boston and Washington, D.C., focusing on community-centric spaces that create a sense of belonging. The brand is known for its artisanal pastries, cakes, and breads, along with a café menu that features breakfast, brunch, and lunch options inspired by global flavors. Tatte also offers a specialty coffee program, emphasizing quality and consistency. Each café is designed to reflect its neighborhood while maintaining Tatte’s core identity, creating inviting spaces for casual dining, remote work, and social gatherings. Tzurit Or continues to lead the brand, supported by an experienced executive team dedicated to operational excellence and high-quality ingredients.
A-MAX Auto Insurance is a Texas-based insurance provider founded in 2002, with its headquarters in Dallas. The company specializes in affordable insurance solutions and has rapidly expanded to operate over 200 offices across Texas. In 2022, A-MAX entered the California market by acquiring Sameday Insurance, adding 10 locations in Southern California. A-MAX offers a wide range of insurance products, including auto insurance for cars, motorcycles, boats, RVs, and commercial vehicles. They also provide property insurance for homeowners, renters, and mobile homes, along with specialized services such as SR-22 certificates, Mexico tourist insurance, surety bonds, and notary services. Additionally, A-MAX has commercial solutions, including general liability and commercial auto insurance. The company operates two subsidiaries in Texas: ALPA Auto Insurance and Preferred Coverage Insurance Agency, catering to both non-standard and commercial/personal insurance needs. A-MAX focuses on delivering flexible, customer-centric service to individual consumers and businesses.
Accounting 501 (formerly Pery Consulting Group, founded by Rafe Pery) includes a team of 25 consultants with a broad range of experience in the non-profit sector from the day-to-day transactional accounting level up to the CFO level. Accounting 501 works exclusively in the non-profit sector and assists organizations that are experiencing rapid growth or operational challenges such as…a financial crisis, staffing transitions, accounting system clean-up, merger/reorganization, the need to establish and/or fine tune systems, policies, and procedures. At Accounting 501, we specialize in assisting organizations with complex private and public funding sources to maximize grants and contracts and to ensure compliance with grant requirements. We understand the importance of cost allocation as well as cost center reporting as key to meeting the goals of the organization.
TAG Restaurant Group (TRG) is a Denver-based restaurant collection founded by Chef Troy Guard. Beginning in 2009 with a continentally-charged restaurant located on Denvers historic Larimer Square, TRG has evolved into a culinary powerhouse, garnering local and national attention as well as many accolades along the way. TRG currently operates four concepts over eleven locations in the Denver metro area, and Houston: Los Chingones (four locations), Guard and Grace Denver and Houston, Bubu (three locations), and HashTAG (est. 2017). TAG Restaurant Group strives to shake up your typical dining by offering immersive culinary experiences deeply rooted in and inspired by Chef Troys life and travels. They are crafted with genuine hospitality in mind and are never shy to produce bold, worldly flavors using local ingredients. More than the sum of their parts, TRGs brands represent a way of life and a celebration of the unexpected. The feeling of an Ohana (Hawaiian word for Family) passionately pursuing culinary excellence is tangible. Here, stories are made, told, and remembered. We operate under one vision. The TAG Restaurant Group is a celebration of the unexpected! We will deliver our guests an inspiring vibe with a memorable experience. Our intense focus will be on impeccable service. We will go above and beyond to pursue culinary excellence and grow the TAG Restaurant Group with our OHANA. Our staff exemplifies our core values: Passion, Imagination, Caring, Courage, Harmony, Humility, and Ownership. We look forward to serving you soon, Bon Appetit!