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I’m currently listening to the audio of Rand Fishkin’s new book called “
Lost and Founder
” - thanks
Lolita Taub
for the recommendation - and I’m loving his straightforward startup hacks. He’s a great storyteller and helps us understand the potential pitfalls of startup life. He also harkens back to the bootstrap/no outside investment mentality, which we also get a perspective on in this week’s
Tacos & Tech
podcast with Mike Glanz
, Co-Founder and CEO of HireAHelper, an Oceanside-based company that bootstrapped all the way to an acquisition by Seattle-based Porch. The team luckily is staying local and intact, and in fact is growing tremendously. HireAHelper is another under-the-radar success story in the SD ecosystem. Something to be proud of as well is in Q1, San Diego achieved
higher amounts of tech venture
funding than biotech. Biotech funding isn’t going anywhere, but it’s great to see tech funding increase. Just wait until the biotech funds start funding tech-enabled bio data plays, if it doesn’t already. That’s where San Diego is really going to shine, as the late great Bruce Bigelow coined in
Big Bio meets Big Data
.
In the last few months, I’ve started ramping up some angel investments, including a second/follow-on investment in
Concert Health
. I am incredibly impressed with the team and the market potential. There are a few more companies we have closed deals on too and I will share those soon. I also joined
Tech Coast Angels
(TCA), being the second San Diego member to have previously raised money from TCA with a previous company (Portfolium), only after the esteemed
Dean Rosenberg
. TCA
recently raised
its own investment fund and we’ve been able to write $1.1 million in angel funds since December 1, 2018 for eight companies (Lynx, Healionics, GoSite, Paradigm, KettleSpace, Elysium, Elemeno Health, DTx); we have another $1.1 million to deploy through November 2019. It feels great to be helping local companies at the early stage, especially knowing the potential to create so many jobs and other ripple effects in the community. There is plenty of more work to do so let’s get back to it!
Cheers!
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ORIGINAL BREW
Our team of
local writers
gives a fresh look inside the San Diego tech ecosystem past and present
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San Diego's Top Tech Awards are fast approaching. Join in on the fun on May 16 to honor outstanding local tech leaders.
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Join Neal Bloom as he chats with Mike Glanz, founder & CEO of HireAHelper, an online marketplace for moving services.
Thanks to our partners at Cox Business for their support of the SD tech ecosystem.
Listen:
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Cullgen,
$16M
with Sequoia Capital China and Highlight Capital
Modular Medical,
$4.2M
with 18 unnamed investors
Concert Health,
$2.2M
with Healthy Ventures
CaptainPanel,
$1.2M
with Faith Capital and 500 Startups
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Director of Human Resources,
Teradata
(San Diego)
Recruitment Marketing Manager,
Lytx
(UTC)
Sr. Account Support Specialist,
SOCi
(Downtown)
Full Stack Tech Lead,
Petco
(San Diego)
Software Development Intern,
ResMed
(San Diego)
Email Marketing Coordinator,
MindTouch
(Downtown)
Finance Business Systems Project Manager,
Viasat
(Carlsbad)
Executive Assistant,
Classy
(Downtown)
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Want to Work There: Creating a Visionary Culture,
April 23
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ank:
Product Management & Design Thinking
,
April 23
Carlsbad Tech Tal
ks: Machine Learning for Video Editing,
April 24
Digital Capital Management: The Best Asset Class for Non-Correlation and Yield
,
April 25
WSGR-UC San Diego Entrepreneurship Seminar Series: Fundraising - Angel, Bridge, and VC Fundraising
,
April 25
Teradata Data Science Distinguished Speaker Series
,
April 29
ThinkTank Application Cycle Closes
,
April 30
San Diego Venture Group: Meet the 2019 Cool Companies
,
April 30
San Diego Tech Hub April Meeting,
April 30
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