Founded in 1979, Main Street Launch’s mission is to create economic opportunity by empowering entrepreneurs. Through innovative partnerships we provide business owners with capital, education, and relationships that allow them to flourish. We provide term loans up to $250,000 to businesses located in Oakland, San Francisco, and to veteran and military-family owned businesses throughout California. In the last 10 years we invested $63 million of loans into 742 businesses, creating and sustaining 5,400 jobs.