THE LOCAL BUZZ
Fueled by:
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Happy Giving Tuesday! Locally, we have seen strong growth from a number of web platforms that benefit both individuals through crowdfunding or nonprofits directly.
Welcome to the social good tech age, being led by the San Diego region. Companies like
GoFundMe
,
founded in and still maintaining an office in San Diego, acquired
Crowdrise
, also a San Diego native. Both platforms have played major roles in elevating the crowdfunding space. Another dynamic company,
Classy
, has grown in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) space to help nonprofits manage their fundraising campaigns.
Other new local nonprofit tech platforms include
Motiv
, a marketplace connecting teens to volunteering opportunities and managing the proof for mandatory service projects; and
Tablecoth.io
, which helps nonprofits measure fund impact through visual and metric-based dashboards.
For all that is said about San Diego being a B2B town, it sure seems like we have done well serving consumers and communities worldwide in mission-driven, social good causes. I’m sure there are more local social good tech companies we are missing. Who are they?
On this Giving Tuesday, however you give, remember the mantra, “Give Before You Get,” and find your own way to do something good.
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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TritonTech:
Find out how two UC San Diego entrepreneurs created Aira, a unique tech-based service for the visually impaired that has become today’s fastest growing assistive community.
Read more here
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Original Godfathers of SD Tech:
As a homage to our ongoing tech “mafia” series, we decided to get the Urchin, MP3.com and WebSideStory mafias together for some fun photo shoots.
Check them out here
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Classy CEO and co-founder Scot Chisholm chats with Neal Bloom about creating an SaaS company in SD, how the local ecosystem has changed, recent milestones, and some of his fave local taco spots. Thanks to our partners at Cox Business for supporting this episode.
Listen:
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SAN DIEGO TECH ECOSYSTEM NEWS
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Check out the five most valuable tech
startups
in San Diego
Local investors/serial entrepreneurs collaborate on new startup TV
show
— VCs in a Van
Apple job listings
point
to efforts to hire wireless engineers in San Diego, showing its first satellite office to attract Qualcomm talent
Local investor Shayne Skaff launches a new
incubator
The Sandbox for SaaS and data science companies
Keep up with the latest SD tech news
here
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Salk Tea
m
awarded
8-Year, $19.2M grant for Alzheimer’s research
UCSD bioengineering professor
awarded $14M
to print organs in 3D accurate to the cell-level
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Air Space Technologies,
$20M
with Scale Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Defy.vc, Cross Culture Ventures, Schematic Ventures
Guardian Health Sciences files for
$10M IPO
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Senior Embedded Wireless Software Engineer,
Apple
(San Diego)
Senior Full-Stack Engineer,
Peachjar
(Sabre Springs)
Senior Director of Marketing,
ESET
(Downtown)
Cloud AWS Architect,
HP
(Rancho Bernardo)
Sales Operations Specialist,
AttackIQ
(Sorrento Valley)
Software Engineer (Android),
Google
(Sorrento Valley)
Sales Development Rep,
Mercato
(Downtown)
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CONNECT’s Most Innovative Product
Awards
,
Nov. 29
Neal Bloom & Bill Lyons talk local startup scene in
webinar
, Dec. 5
SD Business Journal 2018 Business Women of the Year
Awards
, Dec. 13
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