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Ardy Arianpour, the CEO and co-founder of Seqster, is passionate about the interoperability of healthcare data. Seqster is a platform pioneering patient-centric interoperability to retrieve and seamlessly integrate data from various electronic health records.
Ardy was born in Tehran, Iran but grew up in San Diego. While many Iranian immigrants moved to San Francisco, his family wanted to be as far down the coast as possible while...
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Monica Villanueva is a senior development engineer at Carlsbad-based IntelliGuard,an automated cloud-based medication management platform that utilizes RFID technology to facilitate pharmaceutical inventory tracking. It is the first and only known for its RFID-enabled management in the pharmaceutical industry.
From drug manufacturers to anesthesiologists, IntelliGuard helps doctors and pharmacists alike understand where the drugs...
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Scot Chisholm is one of the original founders of Classy, the highly successful San Diego social enterprise named after none other than “Anchorman”. Classy helps nonprofit organizations maximize their fundraising through its online tools targeted at a younger generation. So far, Classy has helped nonprofits raise $3 billion dollars in the last 10 years, and the company doesn’t anticipate slowing down anytime soon.
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Oralia Alvarez plays a key role as the Director of Business Development at San Diego’s Founders First Capital Partners; however, she didn’t always know she would work on the impact side of business.
Kicking off her career in real estate and sales, she worked as a ‘bird dog,’ sourcing deals from other real estate professionals for properties that never made it to market. In real estate, for investors to make a decent...
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Jared Criscuolo is the Founder and CEO of San Diego-based Upcycle and Company, a sustainable, organic fertilizer company breaking the cycle of consumption hoping to get users to the point where they no longer need fertilizer at all.
Jared, originally from Cheshire, Conn., grew up around farming. His mom was a big gardener and his grandfather had a garden that bloomed with strawberries and rhubarb during the Summer. With Jared's...
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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...
