THE LOCAL BUZZ
Fueled by:
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In San Diego, tech and coffee go together like chips and guac. San Diegans absolutely have their local favorite “buzz” bars, like Better Buzz, Westbean, Moniker General, and within the last year, we have had a great infiltration of Philz Coffee too.
But what we also have is a burgeoning roasting community, just like our famous craft beer scene, and now we have coffee tech. In this week’s AzTech feature, you’ll get to know VendiBean and its fantastic in-office high tech coffee kiosk. Locally, you’ll also find companies like
Marea Coffee
bridging the gap between single source and e-commerce. If coffee is your scene, come get your sip on in SD and build some tech too.
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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AzTech
: We caught up with VendiBean, an electronic barista co-founded by a San Diego State University alumna that is helping to revolutionize the bean-to-cup vending machine market, fueled by a tech-savvy society.
Read more here
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TritonTech
: Meet Monal Parmar, a first-generation UC San Diego Triton and CEO of Educational Vision Technologies, an EdTech startup striving to revolutionize education retention.
Read more here
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Life At MyCase by Appfolio
: Jill Feska with Want To Work There gives us a peek inside one of San Diego’s top tech companies and how it ensures a fun and engaging workplace.
Read more here
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Harbor Drive Suspension Bridge by Frank McKenna
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SAN DIEGO TECH ECOSYSTEM NEWS
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When compared to other US tech markets, San Diego's high concentration of
millennials
may just be its greatest overlooked asset
San Diego International Airport has admitted five companies into an internal
accelerator program
to test out their concepts
Qualcomm is seeking an
import ban
on iPhones that contain chips made by Intel after accusing Apple of infringing one of three Qualcomm patents
The companies and judges
have been picked
for the October 24 Quick Pitch SD event. $75,000 is on the line
Carlsbad-based anti-radiation phone case maker SafeSleeve’s founders
open up
about their founding story
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Two San Diego start-ups are among several US biotechs racing to engineer yeast strains for
cannabinoid production
Forge Therapeutics gets info from Achaogen to develop
new antibiotics
t
o treat drug-resistant infections
Sheng Xu and his team at
UC San Diego
are working on a
stretchy stick-on patch
that can take blood pressure readings from deep inside your body
Three life
science
start-ups
join San Diego’s Ad Astra accelerator
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Genomatica
, $90M with Casdin Capital, Viking Global, and Ginkgo Bioworks
VelosBio
, $58M with Airx Bio, Sofinnova Ventures, Pappas Ventures, Chiesi Ventures
NetraDyne
, $21M with M12, Point72 Ventures, Reliance Industrial
ViaCyte
, $10M with W.L. Gore and Associates
GigaIO
, $4.5M with Mark IV Capital
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ACEA Bio
by Agilent Technologies for $250M
Plasso
by GoDaddy (2nd San Diego GoDaddy acquisition), price undisclosed
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Join Neal Bloom as he chats with San Diego’s top tech company and ecosystem builders with a flair for our local lifestyle too. Thanks to Cox Business for being a partner in the Tacos & Tech Podcast.
Jason Pang, Co-founder, Whiff
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Director of People Operations,
LeadCrunch
(Little Italy)
Marketing Funnel Manager,
Organifi
(Downtown)
Senior Director of Program Management,
ServiceNow
(UTC)
Return To Work - Product Manager,
Intuit
(Carmel Valley)
Cloud Software Engineer,
Viasat
(Carlsbad)
Sales Support Engineer,
Sony
(Rancho Bernardo)
Mechanical Engineer,
Omnione
(Sorrento Valley)
Director of CONNECT ALL,
CONNECT
(San Diego)
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Backstage Capital Accelerator,
application
due by Oct. 15
QuickPitch
by TCA, SDVG and Cox Business
, Oct. 24
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Where do you like to get your local coffee buzz? Tell us what’s brewing in San Diego and we’ll feature your answer in a future issue.
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