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Our customers include the world's biggest companies: NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, Open AI, TMobile, Moderna, Workday, Ulta, Target, and more.\r\nCompa headquarters are located in Irvine, California, with growing sites in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California. 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