Aug 28, 2021
Neal: Welcome
everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News by Neal Bloom and Jonah
Peake from Fresh Brewed Tech. Every Friday at 12:30pm Pacific on
Clubhouse and now we record them for you to enjoy as
well.
I’m Neal Bloom, entrepreneur,
investor, and community builder
Jonah: And I’m
Jonah Peake, serial tech operator and investor both, both of us big
fans of growing the San Diego tech community. Let’s dive into our
five stories of the week
For week of Aug 27, 2021
- Smartphones
in the sky: Qualcomm launches first 5G and AI platform targeting
commercial drones
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Qualcomm stated
on mars
- Supplying chips
to NASA
for
Ingenuity helicopter
- Because why not start
with a challenge
- QQ
unveiled tech to
power beyond line of site flight on earth
- What do you think of this
name?
- Operation Swarm or Digital Eagle
or
- Platform is called RB5
5G platform
- Crop inspection
- Wsin turbine monitoring
- Package delivery
- Mapping
- Many other application potential
- Enabling
applications like:
- They are also launching
a physical drone
kit
- ModalAI
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210817005256/en/ModalAI-Serves-as-Distributor-for-Qualcomm%E2%80%99s-World-First-5G-and-AI-Enabled-Drone-Platform-and-Reference-Design
- Pretty clever
strategy
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- Speed up
innovation for commercial
applications
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- Drone body, rotors, etc
- To date 12 flights
- 1 mile total flight
- Graduated from demonstration to aerial scout
for Perseverance Rover
- A quick update
on Ingenuity:
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Founded by
Navy Seal Brandon
Tseng
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Goal:
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- Help US forces scout for
threats
- Enter buildings
- Send back surveillance (maps or
photos)
- An MIT
Grad
- Who sold company WiPower to
Qualcomm
-
Brandon teamed up
with brother Ryan
- Who worked on Draper Labs
Robotic guidance system
- Pairing with last founder,
Andrew Reiter
- Shield has been growing through
acquisition
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- Heron
Systems: which makes
software designed to power autonomous jets
- Martin
UAV: maker of 125 lb
drones launched from vehicles
- From 200 to nearly 400
- Both
acquisitions doubled the head count over night
- Shield is based out of DT SD!
- Incubator News - find deadlines and
links
- Final Admissions Deadline: Sep 19,
2021
- San Diego Virtual 2021
- Focus: pre-seed startup
accelerator,
- Fall 2021
- Cohort 5 applications are open! Apply by Aug.
30
- Focus: low to moderate income and diverse
founders from broad backgrounds
- Rolling
- Focus: DeepTech (MedTech, FinTech, AI/ML, IoT,
Hardware)
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- October 6, 2021
- Program starts January
- Join the Techstars Anywhere three-month virtual
accelerator to gain funding, mentorship, and access to the
Techstars network for life.
- We Tha Plug -
We Tha Incubator -
https://www.wethaplug.com/new-page
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- Application for Cohort 2 due September 24,
2021
- Have applied to an accelerator or incubator,
but have not been accepted.
- Have been working on an idea, but cant figure
out steps next.
- Launched and still not getting the traction you
need to scale.
- Focus:
- Torrey
Project - https://www.torreyproject.org/bootcamp
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- We are offering a discounted early bird rate
for our tuition until August 31st.
- Entrepreneurs who embrace stakeholder
capitalism and use their business as a force for good.
- This story might be a little
misleading
- Broke ground 3 years ago
- Stalling at a construction of a few critical
components
- Sewage purification plant in
Miramar
- A pipeline through Clairemont supplying the
plant
- Pump station in Morena
- At completion of the first phase in
2025
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- 34 million gallons of potable water /
day
- Another 53 million
gallons come online
in 2035
- This project will drop
imported water from 85% to less than 50%
- Prior
to this project, only
8% of
sewage had been recycled into irrigation
water
- What are the steps of the water
purification?
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Ozonization:
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- Ozone gas destroys
microorganisms,
- then consumers and converted them into
O2
- helpful bacteria thrive in O2
environment
- Consuming 30-50% anything that was or is
living
- Biological
activated filters,
- Steps:
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- Particles, viruses, bacteria
- Only salt, water and other very small molecules
can pass through
- 300 times narrower than a human
hair
- pulling out additional materials
- 50k smaller than smallest bacteria
- Reverse
osmosis,
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- Light (similar to extremely concentrated
sunlight)
- Destroys DNA of any microbes left
- Other contaminants
- This results
in water that
meets or
exceeds standards
- But we need to factor in a rise in
price
- This is slightly
more expensive at current rates
- Orange
County produces
70 million gallons of purified water per day and is in the process
of expanding production to 100 million gallons per
day.
- Singapore, Australia, Virginia, Texas, and
Colorado
-
Growing need and others are looking at this
system:
IPOs - Carlsbad-based Tyra Bio
files for IPO
https://endpts.com/ra-capital-aims-to-take-preclinical-biotech-to-nasdaq-as-tyra-files-s-1-during-summer-lull/
Fundings -
ShieldAI - $200M Series
D
AdarxPharm - $75M
ContaktWorld - $1.35M
Acq - SOCi acq Anaheim-based
Brandify
https://www.sdbj.com/news/2021/aug/15/soci-makes-first-acquisition/
Highmetric acquires
NewRocket
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/highmetric-acquires-newrocket-301359129.html
Ra Medical acq by Strata
Skincare
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/strata-skin-sciences-acquires-u-s-dermatology-business-of-ra-medical-271629147631
Copia
https://www.sdbj.com/news/2021/aug/19/san-diego-based-biosurplus-merges-form-copia-scien/
Carwave acq by Kar for
$450M
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kar-to-accelerate-dealer-to-dealer-growth-profitability-through-acquisition-of-carwave-301360260.html
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