Tacos & Tech Podcast · Modernizing the Future of Childcare with Alessandra Lezama, Founder & CEO of TOOTRIS
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Alessandra Lezama is the founder & CEO of TOOTRIS, a tech-enabled service provider that connects parents with childcare providers.
As a single mother, Alessandra struggled finding proper childcare for her son, who was young at the time. He had a near-death experience that would be...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · What's Happening in San Diego Tech in August with Ashok Kamal & Al Bsharah
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Listen in as Tech Coast Angels investors Ashok Kamal and Al Bsharah chat with host Neal Bloom about the latest happenings in San Diego tech.
4:00 Ashok Kamal provides an update on Tech Coast Angels and investing amid the pandemic, noting now is a great time for investors to find favorable deal terms.
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Tacos & Tech Podcast · Building Startup Communities with Investor, Entrepreneur & Author Brad Feld
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Brad Feld has been a venture capital investor and entrepreneur since 1987, and is one of the co-founders behind Techstars, a much-touted global accelerator for early stage startups. He has written numerous books, including 2012’s Startup Communities, which guided thousands of leaders to build startup communities in...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Fighting Dementia & Alzheimer's Using Big Data, Genomics, and Machine Learning with Julie Collens
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Julie Collens is the Founder and CEO of Vivid Genomics, a precision medicine company that specializes in dementia, specifically with the aim to accelerate neurodegenerative disease drug development by using genomics, big data, and machine learning.
After completing her Ph.D. in population genetics...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Building One of the Fastest-Growing Startups in the Nation with Afif Khoury
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Afif Khoury is the Founder & CEO of SOCi, a local marketing platform that aims to solve and manage the complex digital workflow of large, multi-location enterprises.
After earning a degree in neuroscience and physiology from UC San Diego in 1998, Afif worked in a genetics lab for a while and even had his work...
Tacos & Tech Podcast · Kim Folsom - Founder and CEO of Founders First Capital Partners
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Kim Folsom is the Founder & CEO of Founders First Capital Partners (FFCP), a platform focused on growing and funding small, revenue-generating, service-based businesses that are led by diverse founders. Check out their resources and services and apply here.
A Maine native, Kim’s interest in entrepreneurship was sparked by her...
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 latest tech news in San Diego. The episode kicks off with Alex discussing his work at CONNECT ALL and his entrepreneurial journey, and then goes into a discussion about local tech news.
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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 professors who let her work on his MBA internet marketing projects. During her time in college, she got a job at the startup Z57, where she met her husband Flash and learned the basics of startups and...
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 companies and investors in order to boost the SoCal innovation ecosystem.
Tune in as Mysty Rusk, Benton Moore, Amy Duncan, and Jason Scharf, angel investors and key players of the San Diego Angel...
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 unsuccessful, Mike chose to get a bachelor’s degree and then a master’s degree in engineering, ultimately becoming a software engineer. Then, he did everything he could to get involved in San Diego’s...
