By Fred Grier  Startup accelerators have become a prominent feature in the tech landscape in recent years, with more and more programs popping up every year. They play an important role in the startup ecosystem, fostering innovation and industry disruptors. San Diego offers a wide variety of...

By Sandy Athniel & Fred Grier Year Founded: 2013 Players: Matt Ellis Headcount: About 60 team members Funds raised: $30 million In this first-ever collaboration between the AzTech and TritonTech series, we chatted with Measurabl founder & CEO Matt Ellis, an alumnus of both...

By Fred Grier Meet Nicholas Halverson, a UC San Diego alum and CEO of Occuspace. Moving from a small town in Florida to attend college, the big city was quite a shock for him - including SoCal’s problematic parking and long lines.  After realizing this crowded annoyance was a shared problem...

By Fred Grier Meet Debbie Chen, an imaging data scientist-turned-entrepreneur who is developing a personalized hydration monitor for athletes to reach and maintain peak performance. Through her thesis work, Chen spotted a unique opportunity to extend beyond academia and move closer to making...

By Fred Grier Meet Andy Kieatiwong, UC San Diego alumni and CEO of Additive Rocket Corporation (ARC), which plans to reinvent the modern-day rocket engine utilizing 3D metal printing. ARC aims to produce low-cost rocket engines, creating more accessible space exploration for both the public and...

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 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 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 Fred Grier Meet Darren Charrier, 22-year-old UC San Diego Triton, co-founder, and CEO of Voyager Space Technologies, which is building artificially intelligent software tools to expedite the design process of satellites by allowing engineers to create and collaborate in real time, all in one...