Happy April! We recently celebrated National Health Day by honoring the many companies in San Diego and their impact on global health. Check out some of the health tech companies we’ve covered and the advancements they continue to make.
April is also Earth Month, a reminder that we can reduce our footprint and make a difference. There’s a strong group of San Diego companies that are helping our planet, from eco-friendly ocean robots to stormwater management, smart pipe...
“What are you working on, Neal?” I actually get this question multiple times per day. Read my blog post here to learn about my recent journey and where I’m focusing my time between companies, investing, and community building.
For Fresh Brewed Tech, below are some hot stories we’re following:
Winners of the San Diego Angel Conference: Advocat Technologies and runners up Verity, Chargenet, Fluid Power AI and Digital Proteomics.
Autonomous trucking tech startup TuSimple...
March is National Women’s History Month and San Diego is the place to be. We have one of the deepest support systems for female founders and professionals.
Organizations like Athena and Ad Astra’s Get To Even bootcamp are enriching our leaders.
We have great programs like Stella Labs, Women Who Code, Designing Women, Girls in Tech SD.
Investors such as Ad Astra and Stella Angels are supporting female founders.
Spaces like Hera Hub and The Rosie Network are supporting a...
We love to talk about our startups, but we cover so much more with Fresh Brewed Tech, including our region’s thriving big tech and biotech scene.
Something exciting to watch is big tech getting into the startup game through investing, incubating, accelerating, and acquiring.
One example is Qualcomm Ventures, which has long been investing in a multitude of tech startups, some that don’t even have relevance to its core domain expertise. The investment arm of local behemoth Qualcomm has...
Happy February, friends. It’s hard to believe everything that went down in January, let alone the past year, but that’s not detracting from the momentum that continues to build in our San Diego tech community. Fundings continued to happen at a blazing fast pace in January as you’ll see below in our funding section. We also continue to highlight what our local investors are investing in, including companies outside San Diego. While companies are raising funds, we need to make sure...
With 2020 already a record topping year with San Diego total VC funding of over $5 billion, expect a similar blockbuster year in 2021. 2020 matched 2000 in total dollar amount, but the number of deals was way down. This means later stage mega fundings are taking precedence over early stage funding. While San Diego startups are getting some big later stage fundings, we need to make sure we’re filling the funnel up top too. I predict 2021 sees more early stage angel and angel funds come to...
Happy New Year! Remember where we were a year ago? I don’t either. What I do know is that the tech community largely persevered in 2020, while many small businesses struggled. What I’m most proud of is how our ecosystem leaned in to help those who are struggling. Whether it’s to provide resources, donate to help furloughed workers, distribute food with the San Diego Food Bank, check in on a friend, buy from a local store or restaurant, thank you. We’re going to need a lot more of this...
Even though the year continues to be challenging overall, it’s been a pretty busy and successful last few weeks in our tech community. Due to the growth of some of our leading industries during the pandemic, there’s been some blockbusting fundraising for a few startups. Autonomous trucking unicorn TuSimple raised another $350M, bringing its total to $648M in funding to date. Small business digital tool maker GoSite raised $40M of funding in a Series B, 100 days after its Series A....
Happy early Thanksgiving, friends. With the holidays upon us, it may be time to slow down a bit, but our tech ecosystem is still going full steam ahead. There has been some big news recently on fundings and acquisitions, including VelosBio’s $2.75B acquisition by Merck, and eStudySite by Velocity Clinical Research. November fundings have been pretty massive too: Ambrx biotech raised $200M, Prometheus Bio was funded with $130M, RayzeBio launched with $45M, Trust & Will had...
Well, what a week and weekend. We stood up and voted and we have a lot of new leadership all around, including in San Diego. We have a lot to be proud of so let’s keep the momentum going with ensuring our tech ecosystem and the communities that support it stay relevant. Now that we will have new leaders in the New Year, it’s the time to check in, not check out, and make sure they hear our actual needs and voices.
As Veteran’s Day approaches, I also want to give a shout out to our...
