San Diego Tech News Week of March 16, 2021

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March 16, 2021

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As we continue to celebrate and honor National Women’s History Month, I’d like to focus on another strength in San Diego - the number of incredible women investors and capital allocators who help keep our ecosystem thriving.

Key female investment fund managers in San Diego include:

Caitlin Wege, Tech Coast Angels and MooDoos Investments
Denise Longely, Longley Capital
Allison Long Pettine, Ridge Group Investments and Ad Astra Ventures
Silvia Mah, Stella Labs, Ad Astra Ventures, and SD Angel Conference
Vidya Dinamani, Ad Astra Ventures
Mysty Rusk, SD Angel Conference
Jaime Schmidt, Color Capital
Kim Folsom and Oralia Alvarez, Founders First Capital
Kim Kamdar, Domain Associates
Barbara Bry, Blackbird Ventures
Magda Marquet, Alma Life Sciences and Mesa Verde
Jean Balgrosky, Bootstrap Ventures
Nancy Hong, Rivervest

There’s also an incredibly strong female angel community, many of which are part of TCA’s Angel Ladies.

The San Diego tech ecosystem continues to flourish in equitable ways!

And, here are the FAST FIVE stories I am watching:

Founders First Capital raised an additional $9M to continue to fund underrepresented entrepreneurs, especially in the service industry.

San Diego Angel Conference is March 20 and is attracting a lot of buzz. Come join!

Caitlin Wege joins the She Invests! Podcast for an interview by Silvia Mah.

UCSD’s The Basement has launched the Latinx Leadership Program.

San Diego has all the elements to continue to be the tech and life sciences hub and recent growth shows all the ingredients are working by Mike Krenn.

Cheers,

Neal

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ORIGINAL BREW

Our team of local writers gives a fresh look inside the San Diego tech ecosystem past and present.

Tamara Zubatiy, CEO and Founder of Barometer (formally VeriCrypt) hopes to help organizations better measure biases on their content via artificial intelligence.

JOBS SPOTLIGHT

During the current shift in the world of work, many San Diego companies are still hiring. This live job board by SD Life Changing, StartupSD, and Connect shows open roles. Companies can add their roles if they are hiring, too.