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Rev One Design makes the last revision count
A Bay Area agency built a business around the edits that stand between approved ideas and printed reality. Its work shows why the small stuff deserves a specialist.
Colorprint puts a quarter of its profits back into the neighborhood
The Burlingame printer says it has given more than $307,000 to local charities. Behind that number is a family experience, a quarterly promise, and the everyday business of getting ink onto paper and mail out the door.
The Computer That Survives the ICU (and the Oil Refinery)
A 1989 PC company quietly reinvented itself around the two markets everyone else avoids: hospitals that hose down their hardware and factories where a spark can kill. Here is how a 150-person shop in Burlingame carved out both.
Ocean's Halo
Ocean's Halo is a California-based natural foods company that grows, harvests and packages organic, ocean-to-table Asian-inspired products - from its signature trayless seaweed snacks to frozen kimbap, broths, noodle bowls and sauces. Founded in 2011 as New Frontier Foods by a group of former finance and tech executives, the brand farms its own organic seaweed in a protected bay off South Korea and sells through roughly 10,000 retail doors including Costco, Whole Foods, Walmart and Target, pairing plant-based nutrition with plastic-free, trayless packaging and a 1% for the Planet conservation pledge.
Hinge Bio
Hinge Bio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Burlingame, California, building next-generation antibody therapeutics on its proprietary GEM-DIMER platform. The platform engineers multivalent, multispecific antibodies that bind their targets cooperatively for dramatically enhanced potency. Its lead candidate, HB2198, is a B cell-depleting agent targeting both CD19 and CD20 with enhanced natural killer cell engagement, now in Phase 1 trials for systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus nephritis. The company raised a $30M Series A led by Point72 in January 2025.
Freemodel
Freemodel is a presale home renovation company that designs, manages, and pays for renovations before a homeowner sells - then collects from escrow at closing. Local project directors run the job; the homeowner sells for more.