About The Carlsen Center

Mission: To make innovation and entrepreneurship simple, accessible, and pervasive throughout the Greater Sacramento Region.

Vision: To be the premier hub and epicenter for regional innovation and entrepreneurship.

Why: To create a community that values and supports entrepreneurial risk-taking and innovation in an effort to solve complex problems and build sustainable solutions for our future

Approach: The success of students balances on the collaboration and partnership between the Entrepreneurial and Academic Ecosystems. Each of the ecosystems drives different value to the students and must be balanced to ensure our students’ entrepreneurial success. The Carlsen Center serves as the nexus and hub between these ecosystems allowing us to support delivering experience and education to our students