January 7, 2020
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Welcome to The Local Buzz, your inside scoop on San Diego’s tech scene. Keep up to date on our Fresh Brewed Tech website.
BLOOMBITES
Happy new decade! Ten years ago, I was living in LA and working on the Space Shuttle, and now my team and I are helping to build startup ecosystems. Along those lines, you may not know everything our Fresh Brewed Tech team is up to. Behind the scenes of this media company is a team that is writing lots of original content and distributing it via our newsletters, including our OC tech news . Stay tuned for new ecosystems to be added in the coming year. Our greater parent company is called Rising Tide Partners (RTP), which gained a lot of business in 2019 by helping city governments and companies with content marketing strategies, much like this newsletter and original content . You can also expect to see more from RTP as we start building out our own brand and broaden our coverage of vibrant ecosystems.

Specifically for Fresh Brewed Tech, we were busy during the holidays. Today, we are excited to launch season three of the Tacos & Tech Podcast , including a brand new theme song by School of Rap ( Ashok Kamal & Miguel Hart ); we plan to release a new episode every week! We are also continuing our Home Brew series, showcasing creative spaces innovative companies call home. Later this month, we plan to unveil the next SD Tech Mafia series on HNC, the OG company that helped put San Diego on the analytics map.

In today’s newsletter, check our new AzTech (The Vanlife App) and TritonTech (FLOAT) pieces below.

Cheers to a prosperous new year!

Follow @FreshBrewedTech on Twitter for regular SD tech updates throughout the day.
ORIGINAL BREW
Our team of  local writers   gives a fresh look inside the San Diego tech ecosystem past and present
TACOS & TECH PODCAST
Season Three, Episode One
Ashok Kamal, Executive Director of Tech Coast Angels.

This episode features our new podcast theme song. Take a listen!

Thanks to our partners at Cox Business for their support of our tech ecosystem.
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RECENT DEALS
Epirium Bio, $85M with Vertex Ventures, The Longevity Fund, Longitude Capital, BlueBird Ventures, Adams Street Partners. and ARCH Venture Partners

Kinnate Biopharma, $74.5M with Vida Ventures, OrbiMed, Nextech Invest, Foresite Capital, and Eshelman Ventures

Pipeline Therapeutics, $30M with Versant Ventures, Sectoral Asset Management, RBV Capital, Hadean Ventures, and Brace Pharma

ChromaCode, $28M with Northpond Ventures, Windham Venture Partners, Okapi Venture Capital, and New Enterprise Associates, among others

Trust & Will, $6M with Link Ventures, Techstars Ventures, Halogen Ventures, Luma Launch, Western Technology Investment, and Rise of the Rest

SurgLogs, $5M with Credo Ventures and 8VC
JOBS SPOTLIGHT
Sales Engineer II, Cox Business (San Diego)

Account Executive 2, Cox Business (San Diego)

Data Engineer, Epic Games (Downtown)

Channel Sales Rep, Trust & Will (Little Italy)

HRIS Analyst, Neurocrine Biosciences (Del Mar)

Product Manager, Veyo (UTC)

Business Intelligence Developer, Renovate America (Rancho Bernardo)

Director of Engineering - Remote, Cloudbeds (Bankers Hill)

Accounts Payable Specialist, Arena Pharmaceuticals (Sorrento Valley)

Director of Customer Success, Concert Health (Downtown)

Software Engineer, Webroot (UTC)
UPCOMING EVENTS
SoftStack Factory: Intro to Programming Class, January 6-29

SoftStack Factory: Ionic Framework Class, January 6-29

Bitcoin San Diego: Bitcoin and Coffee, January 8

Edge & Bitcoin San Diego: 2020 Crypto Kickoff Party, January 8

LEARN Academy: 5th Anniversary Party, January 16

Startup San Diego: 3rd Mondays, January 20

SoftStack Factory: Data Science in a Nutshell Workshop, January 21

The Basement UCSD: Women in AI, January 22

Maker.dev: API and Automation Tools Workshop, January 23

UCSD Extension: Update on the War for Attracting Top Talent…Talent Won! Now What? January 24

World Trade Center San Diego: MetroConnect applications due January 24

TechCon Southern California, January 25

MCAA 2020 Technology Conference, January 29-31

LaunchBio: The Future of Food, January 30

Applications due: San Diego International Airport Innovation Lab, January 30

UCSD Extension: Building a Responsible Startup, January 31

Launch Factory applications due February 21
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