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Silvia Mah has played a huge role in the growth of the San Diego startup ecosystem. As an author, mentor, angel investor and founder herself she has impacted the community here profoundly.
Silvia was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela to a CIA operator mother and Italian emigrant father with a strong entrepreneurial passion. She attended an international school in Caracas, where students faced bomb threats, transportation...
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Bijan Moallemi, Joe Garafalo, and Brian Campbell all had extensive experience in the finance industry before founding Mosaic, a strategic finance platform that revolves around building the next generation of technology for the modern day CFO. Mosaic connects all of the systems used by businesses on a daily basis, translating rather complicated analytics into easily understood information.
The three met while working at Palantir in...
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AlwaysAI provides a platform that allows developers and enterprises to utilize deep learning and machine vision platforms to edge devices. Komal Devjani, a Developer Advocate, and Liz Oz, the Head of Marketing, gave us an inside look on what alwaysAI is up to.
Liz was born in upstate NY, but grew up in Seattle where she studied Multimedia Design and Advertising at the Lake Washington Institute of Technology. She followed her...
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Dr. John Dobak currently serves as the CEO of DermTech, a biotechnology company creating a new category of medicine - precision dermatology. DermTech is in the business of transforming the way doctors perform skin exams. Its smart sticker technology - an adhesive tab that collects skin cells - allows dermatologists to run genomic tests looking for skin cancer.
Dr. Dobak found himself in San Diego when he started med school at...
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Jon Corrin is Co-Founder and CEO of XILO, a software company that eliminates the time-consuming manual data entry for insurance agents, automating many of their standard processes.
Jon grew up in Dover, Del., and attended the University of Delaware. During his time there, he worked on his first startup, Atlas, with his best friend who moved to San Diego upon completion of his education at the Naval Academy. Inspired by the...
Cassandra Curtis and Ari Raz have always been interested in both health food and entrepreneurship, which made them likely partners for Once Upon a Farm.
Once Upon a Farm began as the first refrigerated baby food on the market and has since developed into a kids’ popular nutrition brand. Cassandra studied nutrition and its impact on development while working towards her Master’s in Psychology at Alliant International University. So she knew that nourishing a growing child was crucial....
Spencer Hutchins is the co-founder and CEO of Concert Health, which specializes in bringing behavioral health to patients through their primary care providers (PCP). The company essentially functions as a care delivery organization, with a vast majority of its 100 employees being behavioral specialists, from social workers to psychiatrists.
Upon graduation from Colby College, Spencer worked as a senior intern on John Kerry’s presidential campaign. He started when the campaign had...
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Paul Puey, the Co-Founder and CEO of Edge, formally known as AirBitz, hopes to decentralize financial services, connecting the consumer directly to their cryptocurrency.
Paul grew up in the Bay Area where he was often reminded of the increasing importance of tech. He shared that he always had some interest in computer science, creating his first database in the seventh grade while working on real estate mailout campaigns. He...
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Meet some of Human AI Labs’ co-founders, Kristie Kaiser and Sharon Zhang, who seek to empower all humans with an affordable, unbiased AI-based memory “bank.”. the The tool allows individuals to search for nuggets of information from past events using a variety of AI technologies with the goal of retaining user’s memories to allow for more efficient recall and further utilization.
Kristie found herself in San Diego upon...
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Ty Smith, the founder and CEO of CommSafe AI and retired Navy SEAL, has always seen himself as a protector of people. That’s why he launched CommSafe AI - a technology company that focuses on conflict and violence prevention in the workplace, while promoting diversity and inclusion. Through its first-to-market AI tool, the startup plans to help companies fight against bullying, harassment, aggression, Title IX offenses and other...