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...

By Andrea Siedsma In the early 2000’s, the public Internet was a new medium and the dotcom bubble was in full swing.  Tech executive Meyar Sheik, who was in the middle of all the excitement, remembers lots of promising new startups in San Diego and around the country that were going to market...

By Jill Felska Our “Life At” series – brought to you by Fresh Brewed Tech and Want To Work There – gives a behind-the-scenes look at the cultures of different companies across San Diego. When people talk about the best places to work in San Diego, it’s almost inevitable that someone...

By Andrea Siedsma There’s no doubt that San Diego tech pioneers gave birth to web analytics, which paved the way for countless like-minded companies today.  (And, who knew the web analytics market would be predicted to be worth $3.09 billion by 2019?). One of the godfathers of San Diego's...

By Fred Grier Meet Edward Muallem and Yaniv Shemesh, two UC San Diego juniors who have launched a beverage company to create a premium healthy energy drink. Muallem, a biology major, joined forces with Shemesh, an economics student, to launch Mi Mate, an authentic organic yerba mate. Their...

By Sandy Athniel It was Spring 2015 in Florence, Italy, and Teal Cooper was studying abroad when she received a call from her younger brother, Tristan, who was having a late-night study session at his university in Texas. He expressed his struggle to find coffee to keep him awake and that’s...

By Fred Grier Meet Monal Parmar, a 25-year-old first generation UC San Diego Triton and co-founder and CEO of Educational Vision Technologies (EVT), an Edtech startup that uses artificial intelligence to digitize physical classes into a web platform which enables students to excel academically...

By Jill Felska, Want To Work There Guest Writer “Life At” – brought to you by Fresh Brewed Tech and Want To Work There – features local employees who give us a peek inside the businesses and cultures of different companies across San Diego. From the second you walk into MyCase...

By Andrea Siedsma The mid-to-late 1990s to 2000 are often described as the era of irrational exuberance, at least during the dot-com boom, which included overly optimistic expectations of the Internet’s potential (later, many learned that popularity does not equal profit). The euphoria...

By Neal Bloom As San Diego’s tech community continues to thrive, our region has become a growing focal point for investments. In fact, funding for local tech and life science companies has increased significantly this year. So far in Q3, San Diego tech companies have raised $2.15 billion...