Tacos & Tech Podcast · Building Startup Communities with Investor, Entrepreneur & Author Brad Feld Listen on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms Brad Feld has been a venture capital investor and entrepreneur since 1987, and is one of the co-founders behind Techstars,...

Tacos & Tech Podcast · Fighting Dementia & Alzheimer's Using Big Data, Genomics, and Machine Learning with Julie Collens Listen on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms Julie Collens is the Founder and CEO of Vivid Genomics, a precision medicine company that specializes...

Tacos & Tech Podcast · Building One of the Fastest-Growing Startups in the Nation with Afif Khoury Listen on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms Afif Khoury is the Founder & CEO of SOCi, a local marketing platform that aims to solve and manage the complex...

Tacos & Tech Podcast · Kim Folsom - Founder and CEO of Founders First Capital Partners Listen on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms Kim Folsom is the Founder & CEO of Founders First Capital Partners (FFCP), a platform focused on growing and funding small,...

Alex Waters is the director of CONNECT ALL @ The Jacobs Center, a business accelerator specifically geared towards low/moderate income and diverse individuals. The program aims to support founders who create long-term jobs in the region. Listen in as Alex joins host Neal Bloom to discuss the...

Melani Gordon is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor; she is currently the CEO of Evergreen (formerly TapHunter), and is preparing to launch her third company, a coaching business.  After graduating from San Diego State University, Melani got the entrepreneurship bug from one of her...

The San Diego Angel Conference (SDAC) is an investing fund that helps train new angel investors, thereby unlocking more capital locally and bringing domain expertise to companies from executives-turned-angel investors. This yearlong work culminates in an annual one-day event that brings together...

Mike Roberts is the founder of San Diego Code School, which focuses on helping individuals prepare for careers as software developers through apprenticeships.  Mike began coding when he was 12 or 13, purely as a hobby at first. After his attempt at going to college to be an accountant was...

Stanley Kim is the Co-Founder & CEO of WinSanTor, a biotech company focused on developing pharmaceutical solutions to peripheral neuropathy. Stanley graduated from UC Berkeley after studying genetics, but after realizing he had no desire to work in a lab or go to med school, he went to go...

Brook Sheehan and Rema Abedkader are the co-founders behind Cup O’ Sugar, a mobile app that allows neighbors to connect over sharing and requesting food ingredients. Single moms and close friends for nine years, Brook and Rema originally got their app idea when they were missing a vital...