​Innovate

SMUD plays a vital role in our region's innovation ecosystem.

We concentrate our efforts through strategic partnerships that directly promote growth—new businesses and jobs—as well as expanding programs and services that support our region’s innovators and entrepreneurs.

Start exploring Sacramento’s innovation scene:

• FourthWave
• Hacker Lab
• InnoGrove
• NorCal Entrepreneur Hub
• Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy
• Sacramento Mayor’s Office for Innovation & Economic Development
• Startup Sac
• The Carlsen Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
• The Growth Factory
• UC Davis Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship – Big Bang! Contest

For more information on SMUD’s partnerships in Sacramento’s innovation economy, email Franklin Burris.