By Andrea Siedsma
Fresh Brewed Tech has teamed with the Direct Cannabis Network (DCN) to spotlight San Diego's growing cannabis industry. Through this series, we will explore local tech and science companies on the leading edge of cannabis, from software tools to manufacturing, digital...
By Sandy Athniel
Year Founded: 2017
Technology: Online service making it easy, fast and secure to set up your estate plan
Players: Cody Barbo, Brian Lamb & Daniel Goldstein
Headcount: 6 employees and 4 contractors, all internal at the company’s Downtown Works office in San...
By Fred Grier
Imagine a virtual world where users can experiment, design, collaborate, and learn at the nanoscale. This virtual open access to science and technology would accelerate the scientific breakthroughs of the future.
Meet Steven McCloskey, a University of California San Diego...
By Carter Crockett, Ph.D.
Guest Writer
I am pleased to launch this series by featuring one of the most prominent social enterprise leaders in San Diego, Chuck Samuelson, founder of Kitchens for Good. The mission of Kitchens for Good is to break the cycles of food waste, hunger, and poverty...
By Neal Bloom
Wow, who can believe that it’s already 2019?! 2018 was quite the year and in San Diego, a great year of tech ecosystem growth. First, we’ll go over some highlights of 2018 and then look ahead to what to watch for in 2019.
New Offices
2018 saw a flurry of tech companies...
By Neal Bloom
San Diego’s tech ecosystem continues to be boosted by large funding deals. Overwhelmingly, 2018 has been a great year for funding dollar amount in San Diego. The fourth quarter was no different from this trend - more money, fewer deals.
In Q4, 38 companies raised $1.1 billion in...
By Carter Crockett, Ph.D.
Guest Writer
“Impact” – a series brought to you by Carter Crockett and Fresh Brewed Tech – features key insights from San Diego’s impact ecosystem, those with the grit to build a better world...one social enterprise at a time.
A 2017 report ranked San...
By Fred Grier
A little over four years ago, Suman Kanuganti and Amy Bernal were finishing up their MBA program at the University of California San Diego, Rady School of Management. Needing a few more units towards earning his degree, Kanuganti participated in the Rady StartR program, a nonprofit...
By Andrea Siedsma
Photos: Neal Bloom
Urchin Software, WebSideStory, MP3.com - these were some of the original godfathers of San Diego’s tech community during the region’s dot-com and startup explosion in the mid-1990s-to-early 2000s.
These fast-growing and sometimes notorious companies...
By Sandy Athniel
In early 2015, Luke Sophinos, a student at San Diego State University (SDSU) at the time, decided he wanted to help improve the education system. So, he set out to create a tablet device made solely for academic test-taking. He then evolved his idea to become what is known...
