April 5th, 2022
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BLOOMBITES
Since my days of co-founding Portfolium in 2013, I’ve been explicitly focused on connecting talent with opportunity and building community while doing it. 

Today, we’re publicly launching the first in a series of IN PERSON talent connecting events with UCSD called Fresh Brewed Tech Live! First up is Marketing Night!

We aim to connect senior marketers with their industry peers (mentors) with junior marketers (mentees) just getting started in their profession. 

From 1-on-1 matching, to a thought leadership panel, and small group topic-based tables, we’re excited to bring the San Diego marketing community together IN PERSON to share insights and build relationships!

Join us on April 26th - Get Tickets Here

Cheers!
TACOS & TECH PODCAST
Jayce Hafner is co-founder and CEO of FarmRaise, a financial services company that helps farmers find farm grants, loans and cost-share programs that ease financial burdens. Learn how Jayce is making finance and opportunities accessible to farmers in our latest podcast!
JOBS SPOTLIGHT
The talent market is hot especially for tech talent. Check out our new job board! Submit jobs or apply to who’s hiring in SD tech!
Border LLC (San Diego/remote)

Four Fin Creative (La Mesa)

Loveseat Online Auctions (San Diego)
Loveseat Online Auctions (Austin, TX)

Loveseat Online Auctions (San Diego)

Loveseat Online Auctions (San Diego)
UPCOMING EVENTS
Innovate78, April 7

Naturally San Diego, April 7

SDNC, April 9-10

Startup San Diego, April 13-14

Torrey Project, Applications due April 15
RECENT FUNDINGS
Ocelot Bio, treatment options to patients with severe liver disease, $36M Series A with RA Capital Management, Venrock, Vivo Capital

Mosaic.tech, finance platform that provides predictive reporting capabilities to assist with financial strategy and planning, $25M Series B with Founders Fund

Trefoil Therapeutics, novel engineered FGF-1 compounds to treat endothelial cell mediated diseases, $12M

Ride1UP, online source for electric bikes, $6.5M Series A with Ecosystem Integrity Fund 

LifeForce Games, blockchain game developer, $5M Seed with Lemniscap

Pack Digital, platform that consolidates product and content updates in a central system to manage your PWA builds and deployments, $3M Seed with Alpaca VC

Waitroom, video communication platform, $3M Seed with David Sacks

Crypthulhu Studios, computer games company that makes the tools for players, $2.1M 
ACQUISITIONS
Sonata Hospice by Traditions Health Care

Psychiatric Centers at San Diego by MindPath Care Centers

Pala Interactive by Boyd Interactive Gaming for $170M

Notch8 by Scientist.com
SD-BASED INVESTORS IN THE NEWS
Blueprint Equity invests in Federal Compass

Qualcomm Ventures invests in OmniML, Celona, Deep Vision

Luna Capital invests in Caduceus

Radicle Growth invests in Leaf Agriculture

Pacira Pharmaceuticals invests in Spine BioPharma

M6 Ventures invests in Red Door Digital, Joystream

Section 32 invests in Celsius Therapeutics, SandboxAQ, Nucleai

Ad Astra Ventures invests in Frame Fertility

Neocortex Ventures invests in Skyminyr

HCAP Partners invests in Saphyre

Correlation Ventures invests in Applied XL
TACO TO YOU LATER
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