July 26th, 2022
THE LOCAL BUZZ
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BLOOMBITES
While venture capital has increasingly flowed into San Diego over the last five years, other resources like incubators, accelerators, and mentorship have lagged. Until recently. Now the universities are catching up and Evonexus is back to in person incubating and events. Here’s an overview of available startup support to apply to if you are in need of a program to help mature your business. 

Local Startup Incubators and Accelerators:
USD: The Brink, new Business Department Building
Cal State San Marcos: Innovation Hub
Miramar College: REC Innovation Lab

Cheers!
ORIGINAL BREW
Most recently, we hosted Dev & Data Night on June 28th, and had an awesome turnout featuring panelists Dominic Holt (CEO of harpoon Corp), Etienne de Bruin (Founder of 7CTOs), and Lena Skliarova-Mordvinova (Co-Founder, CTO @ The Good Face Project). We were thrilled to have the venue sponsored by UCSD at their new cultural space, UC San Diego Park & Market Foyer. And special thanks to alternative craft brewery partner, Kove, for sponsoring us.
TACOS & TECH PODCAST
CVO and Co-founder Heather Maio-Smith launched StoryFile to "enable conversations". She gives an overview of how she made her business idea happen, how they build customer trust by valuing authenticity, and more!
UPCOMING EVENTS
ProductCamp San Diego, July 26

SDBJ, July 27

Startup San Diego, Applications due July 31

Womens Ventures Summit, Virtual every Tuesday in August

Neal Bloom, Aug 1

Village Up, Aug 3

Data Science Alliance, Aug 4

Edge & Crypto Connect, Aug 10

Connect San Diego, Aug 11

EvoNexus, Aug 11
UC San Diego, Aug 15-17

Camp Pendleton Personal & Professional Development, Aug 18

Fresh Brewed Tech, Aug 30

San Diego Regional EDC, Aug 31

University of San Diego, Sept 15

WVS, Sept 16-17

The Green Summit, Sept 17

Fresh Brewed Tech, Sept 27

The Show Producers, Oct 13

Startup San Diego, Oct 25-28
RECENT FUNDINGS
Wildcat Discovery Technologies, developer of materials for the use in batteries, $90M Series D with Koch Strategic Platforms

Replay, genome writing company reprogramming biology by writing and delivering big DNA, $55M Seed with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, OMX Ventures

Persephone Biosciences, artificial intelligence to rapidly develop microbial based immunotherapies to enable a lifetime without cancer, $15M Seed with First Bight Ventures, Propel Bio Partners

Walla Software, producer of undisclosed goods and services that is currently operating in stealth mode, $8M Series A with Industry Ventures

Onramp Invest, digital comprehensive crypto-asset management solution that helps financial advisors to invest in cryptocurrency, $7M Series A with JAM FINTOP

Dynam.AI, AI driven solutions tailored to each individual client's needs, $1M Seed with Ondas Holdings
ACQUISITIONS
Ventures Lending Technologies, CDC Small Business Finance by Momentus Capital

ViaCyte by Vertex Pharmaceuticals for $325M

The Automotive Training Group by Repairify

Lifepro by Simplicity Group Holdings

Net Informant by myCRE Cloud
SD-BASED INVESTORS IN THE NEWS
Crescent Ridge Partners Ventures & Social Leverage invests in Walla Software

Spark Growth Ventures invests in Phaidra, BigHat Biosciences

Crypto Capital Investments invests in HeartRate

Qualcomm Ventures invests in Shadowfax

Section 32 invests in Swadesh

SeedFolio invests in VECKTA
JOBS SPOTLIGHT
The talent market is hot, especially for tech talent. Check out our new job board by Fresh Brewed Tech for all the awesome job opportunities in San Diego.
Genentech (Oceanside)

Exagen (Carlsbad)

Illumina (San Diego)

Ionis Pharmaceuticals (Carlsbad)

Cue Health (Vista)
SCIEX (Carlsbad)

Resilience (La Jolla)

Bio-Techne (San Marcos)

Shoreline Biosciences (San Diego)

Viracta Therapeutics (Cardiff-by-the-Sea)
TACO TO YOU LATER
Happy Tuesday!
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