By Tanvi Bajaj While bonding over their love for golf, Ivan Walls and Broderick “Brody” Higby (UC San Diego ‘19), noticed that many tools targeted advanced athletes, but barely any existed for those just looking to get into the sport. Inspired, they began developing GolfAI, an app that...

By Emmet Pierce Guest Writer Editor’s Note: This content was originally created by our team for the City of Carlsbad.  Carlsbad’s high quality of life and rich pool of skilled workers are attracting cutting-edge life sciences companies from other industry hubs. Carlsbad is an...

By Andrea Siedsma This series is dedicated to late HNC co-founders Robert Hecht-Nielsen and Todd Gutschow, who set the stage for San Diego’s vibrant analytics and data science community.  In 1999, Douglas Wayne Burke was doing product management for an internet startup company in Austin,...

By Sandy Athniel Year Founded: 2019 Technology: Virtual reality experiences that, with just a headset, transport users to a limitless array of locations and settings - and put the user right in the center of the action. These experiences are intended to educate the general public and, in the...

By Andrea Siedsma John Mutch joined HNC Software in July of 1997 as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, reporting to then-CEO Bob North. At the time, HNC was doing about $100 million in revenue and had completed the acquisition of Risk Data Corporation and Retek and had a market...

By Andrea Siedsma In 1989, a young scientist named Krishna Gopinathan was working in symbolic computation at the University of Waterloo in Canada when he came across a book about the concepts of neural networks that he felt were visionary and far-reaching. That quickly led him to jump into the...

By Fred Grier Meet Kim Folsom, a serial entrepreneur and investor whose mission is to empower underserved groups of business owners by providing them access to capital and resources to build sustainable companies.  Folsom, a former tech executive and veteran entrepreneur who has built six...

By Neal Bloom Happy New Year! Can we still say that? It feels like we are already deep into 2020, but I want to also share last year’s hard-crunched numbers for San Diego’s tech ecosystem, which may give us some insights on what’s to come this year. From what I can tell, investments in...

By Theresa Hoiles Guest Writer Editor's Note: This content was originally created by our team for the City of Vista.  As we head into the New Year and new decade, predictions about what’s to come abound. Will our economy take a turn? How will the job market change? Can the US stay...

By Sandy Athniel  Year Founded: 2018 Aztec Founder: Breanne Acio Technology: Mobile app that helps outdoor adventurers find camping, overnight parking, amenities, community, and more In late 2016, San Diego State University (SDSU) communication professor and...