Creating jobs in Solano County
Employer commitment
California has always stood for technological and cultural innovation. Companies founded and based here have created many of the products and services we all use every day. These companies have also created well-paid jobs that have made the California Dream possible for millions of families. We are proud to be part of California’s vibrant and innovative economy, where we collectively employ thousands of people.
We want to continue growing, and to hire more people in California. However, in the last decade, the escalating cost of housing has made it challenging for us to provide a high quality of life for our employees and to grow our companies here.
The East Solano Plan is an audacious idea, but California has always been a place that found bold and exciting solutions to even our most difficult problems. We believe in this vision for a sustainable community with lots of room for both manufacturing and office work, combined with walkable neighborhoods, opportunities for home ownership, safe streets for children, and access to parks and recreation.
If the new community is approved as proposed, this would give us the confidence that there’s plenty of room for our business to flourish over the next few decades, both in terms of office and industrial space, and in terms of homes for our employees.
As we enter the new post-pandemic era of work, we are all making decisions about where and how to grow our companies. If Solano County voters approve the project this November, we would be interested in bringing jobs to the new community and finding other opportunities to work together to expand the California Dream.
Join the employersAnnouncing our first group of employers
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Hadrian
Hadrian is an advanced manufacturing company focused on aerospace and defense. It places an emphasis on efficiency to minimize supply chain issues, empowering the American space and defense industries to create products faster and cheaper.
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Zipline
Zipline manufactures modern delivery drones and operates logistics centers for its delivery operations. It was founded to be focused on the medical industry, but has since expanded to use its drones for food, retail, agriculture and animal health products.
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Living Carbon
Living Carbon is a company focused on restoring ecosystems from the ground up. The company operates greenhouses that grow plants faster and with larger biomass, enabling the plants to absorb carbon from the atmosphere. Living Carbon has expressed interest in starting a new nursery in Solano County capable of growing more than 10 million seedlings.
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Plenty
Plenty is an agriculture company focused on indoor, vertical growing. This method of farming enables Plenty to grow more crops, with less water on smaller amounts of land. The company sells its produce online and in major grocery retailers like Whole Foods and Bristol Farms.
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Serve Robotics
Serve Robotics manufactures autonomous robots that deliver orders including food and groceries. Currently, Serve operates in a handful of neighborhoods across California. As these delivery robots become more commonplace, Serve will only continue to expand its operations.
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Meter
Meter is an internet infrastructure provider for businesses. The company has a full-stack approach that combines hardware, software and operations so that companies can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern internet network.
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Motive
Motive manufactures truck-fleet management products and operates fleet-management services. Through its integrated product suite, Motive helps scale and manage trucking and shipping operations for the largest trucking fleets in the country.
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BREX
BREX is a financial services company focused on helping businesses and their employees operate financially. BREX offers a menu of financial options that enable small and large businesses to more effectively manage their finances.
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Cover
Cover is a company focused on manufacturing small, modern homes that can be used as ADUs or standalone homes. Cover uses the most advanced construction technologies to minimize costs and maximize efficiency, using an automotive-like production line to fully engineer and assemble their homes.
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Build Casa
Build Casa is a company focused on utilizing California’s SB9, a law that enables homeowners to subdivide their lot into multiple homes. BuildCasa works with homeowners to evaluate their lots and manage the entire subdivision process.
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Freethink
Freethink is a media company focused on building a better world. As opposed to most media fueled by politics and negativity, Freethink focuses on solutions and the most ground breaking technology shaping our future.
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Instant Teams
Instant Teams was founded by military spouses for military spouses. It makes the most of remote work capabilities and its vast military spouse network to enable military spouses to more easily find employment opportunities.
“Hadrian is building a series of factories across America to enable Space & Defense manufacturers to get parts 10x faster and halve the cost of making rockets, satellites, jets & drones. We are excited by the vision of amazing neighborhoods located next to a manufacturing zone designed to accelerate innovation in California. If the East Solano Plan was shovel ready today, we would already be looking at acquiring space for a new factory there.”
Chris Power
Founder & CEO
“By combining innovative silviculture with tools typically reserved for the life and crop sciences, we can expand the frontier of nature-based removal and accelerate and maximize carbon drawdown, while simultaneously remediating and improving degraded and marginal land. We’re intrigued by the prospect of California Forever and look forward to exploring, in greater detail, the construction of a new indoor nursery capable of growing more than 10 million seedlings in East Solano.”
Maddie Hall
Co-founder & CEO
“Serve develops advanced, AI-powered, low-emissions sidewalk delivery robots that endeavor to make delivery sustainable and economical. We believe in bold solutions for a greener, better future, and we're excited about California Forever's vision for a new city with homes people can afford, in walkable neighborhoods, powered by clean energy.”
Dr. Ali Kashani
Co-founder & CEO
"BuildCasa believes that we need an 'all of the above' approach to solving the housing shortage. We're excited to support California Forever's bold vision for Solano County."
Ben Bear
Co-founder & CEO
“Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. We believe in bold ideas that have the potential to transform the way we live and work, and we support California Forever’s vision for the community in Solano County.”
Shoaib Makani
Co-founder & CEO
“Instant Teams and Twelve Million Plus will be supporting California Forever’s commitment to the military community, employment, and initiatives.”
Erica McMannes
Co-founder and Chief People & Community Officer
“Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. We build enterprise-grade networks that are faster, more accessible, and more secure. We believe in reimagining the status quo and building for the long term, which is why we’re excited about California Forever’s vision for a new city in the Bay Area, with walkable neighborhoods, clean energy and homes people can afford.”
Anil Varanasi
Co-founder & CEO
“Partnering with California Forever allows us to extend our passion for uplifting architecture and spaces to a visionary urban scale. We love their thoughtful design and experimentation that elevates living while respecting the environment on an urban scale and are excited to be a part of it.”
Alexis Rivas
Founder & CEO