Tacos and Tech Podcast

Neal Bloom
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Tacos and Tech Podcast Podcast

The Tacos and Tech Podcast highlights the builders of companies, technologies, and the ecosystem of San Diego with a local flair for our lifestyle as well.

  1. 4 DAYS AGO

    This Week in San Diego Tech News - Sept 4, 2024

    Listen & subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms. Welcome everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News by Neal Bloom and Fred Grier from Fresh Brewed Tech. I’m Neal Bloom from Fresh Brewed Tech, the Tacos and Tech Podcast, and Interlock Capital. I’m Fred Grier, journalist and author of The Business of San Diego substack. I wrote about the tech industry for the San Diego Business Journal for two years. I covered the ins-and-outs of the startup world for much of that time, breaking news on IPOs, fundraising rounds, and M&A. Promote the show:  Before we dive in, we wanted to ask our listeners and SD Tech fans to help us grow the show, leave a review and share with one other person who should be more plugged in with the SD Tech Scene. Thank you for the support and for helping us build the San Diego Startup Community. 9/4 Fundings TeachTo.Me raises $5m Events.com goes public with SPAC Carta data - SD top 5 for Series B funding, top 10 for Series A, not in top 10 in early stage funding, pre-seed and seed SOCi hits $100m ARR Dexcom new product QuidelOrtho gets FDA clearance  New CFO at Viasat   Events – For full list – check The Social Coyote Sept 6 - SD Founders Hike Sept 10 - SDxAI Startup Showcase Sept 16 - EvoNexus Demo Day 2024 Sept 19 - Dev & Data Night x CTO Talks at Seismic Sept 23 - Carlsbad Tech Gathering at Shipcalm Sept 24 - Connect Innovation Day Sept 26 - Top Tech Awards San Diego  Oct 2 - Plug and Play Showcase

    24 min

  2. AUG 26

    This Week in San Diego Tech News - August 26, 2024

    Listen & subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms. Welcome everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News by Neal Bloom and Fred Grier from Fresh Brewed Tech. I’m Neal Bloom from Fresh Brewed Tech, the Tacos and Tech Podcast, and Interlock Capital. I’m Fred Grier, journalist and author of The Business of San Diego substack. I wrote about the tech industry for the San Diego Business Journal for two years. I covered the ins-and-outs of the startup world for much of that time, breaking news on IPOs, fundraising rounds, and M&A. Promote the show:  Before we dive in, we wanted to ask our listeners and SD Tech fans to help us grow the show, leave a review and share with one other person who should be more plugged in with the SD Tech Scene. Thank you for the support and for helping us build the San Diego Startup Community. 8/26 Fundings PatientPartner Raises $3.5M New Carlsbad Gaming Startup called ModRetro Launches  Inc. 5000 List: Wildfire Systems (top 100), Trovata (554), Shield AI (634), Workiz (825), ZipDev (860), SOCI (1542), GoShare (2506), Cordial (3742) TideRock new investments  KULR gets new battery tech contract with NASA   Events – For full list – check The Social Coyote LaunchBio debrief Aug 26 -  Carlsbad Life Science Life in Action Gathering  Sept 6 - SD Founders Hike Sept 12 - Wharton Biotech panel Sept 16 - Evonexus Demo Day Sept 19 - Dev & Data Night x CTO Talks at Seismic Sept 23 - Pitch Deck Workshop for SD Startups  Sept 23 - Carlsbad Tech Gathering at Shipcalm Sept 24 - Connect Innovation Day Sept 26 - Top Tech Awards San Diego  Oct 4 - SD Founders Hike

    22 min

  3. AUG 16

    This Week in San Diego Tech News - August 16, 2024

    Listen & subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms. Welcome everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News by Neal Bloom and Fred Grier from Fresh Brewed Tech. I’m Neal Bloom from Fresh Brewed Tech, the Tacos and Tech Podcast, and Interlock Capital. I’m Fred Grier, journalist and author of The Business of San Diego substack. I wrote about the tech industry for the San Diego Business Journal for two years. I covered the ins-and-outs of the startup world for much of that time, breaking news on IPOs, fundraising rounds, and M&A. Promote the show:  Before we dive in, we wanted to ask our listeners and SD Tech fans to help us grow the show, leave a review and share with one other person who should be more plugged in with the SD Tech Scene. Thank you for the support and for helping us build the San Diego Startup Community. 8/14 Avalon BioVentures Startup Acquired for 1.3B Earnings Season Read Out Qualcomm up 20% Resmed up 32% Sempra up 5%   San Diego Angel Conference moving to SDSU TuSimple visit EvoNexus Partners with Healthcare Companies to Accelerate Startups Metropolis IQ launches    Events – For full list – check The Social Coyote Carlsbad Life in Action Cleantech debrief NuFund Summer Social debrief CEO Retreat in Valle de Guadalupe by SVB, DLA Piper, and  Aug 21 - North County SD Startup Mixer Aug 22 - EDC Summer Bash Aug 26 - Carlsbad Life Science Gathering at Thermo Fisher Sept 6 - SD Founders Hike Sept 12 - Wharton Biotech panel Sept 16 - Evonexus Demo Day Sept 19 - Dev & Data Night x CTO Talks at Seismic Sept 23 - Pitch Deck Workshop for SD Startups Sept 23 - Carlsbad Tech Gathering at Shipcalm Sept 24 - Connect Innovation Day Oct 4 - SD Founders Hike Oct 20-22 - Stocktoberfest Oct 21-25 - San Diego Startup Week

    32 min

  4. AUG 8

    This Week in San Diego Tech News - August 8, 2024

    Listen & subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms. Welcome everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News by Neal Bloom and Fred Grier from Fresh Brewed Tech. I’m Neal Bloom from Fresh Brewed Tech, the Tacos and Tech Podcast, and Interlock Capital. I’m Fred Grier, journalist and author of The Business of San Diego substack. I wrote about the tech industry for the San Diego Business Journal for two years. I covered the ins-and-outs of the startup world for much of that time, breaking news on IPOs, fundraising rounds, and M&A. Promote the show:  Before we dive in, we wanted to ask our listeners and SD Tech fans to help us grow the show, leave a review and share with one other person who should be more plugged in with the SD Tech Scene. Thank you for the support and for helping us build the San Diego Startup Community. 7/30 Fundings Autobahn Therapeutics - $100M Series C Truvian - $74m Series D+ Alvys - $20m Series A Ciari Guitars - Ciari Guitars Tuning in for Growth Shield AI powering new aircraft  Qualcomm/Snapdragon - Manchester United partnership  American Airlines brings a Carlsbad flight back to Phoenix    Events – For full list – check The Social Coyote North County Mixer - debrief Aug 4 - Brant Cooper Memorial Service Aug 5 - Carlsbad Cleantech Gathering at Aptera Aug 9 - SD Founders Hike Aug 22 - EDC Summer Bash Aug 26 - Carlsbad Life Science Gathering at Thermo Fisher Sept 12 - Evonexus Demo Day Sept 19 - Dev & Data Night x CTO Talks Sept 23 - Carlsbad Tech Gathering at Shipcalm Sept 24 - Connect Innovation Day Oct 20-22 - Stocktoberfest Oct 21-25 - San Diego Startup Week

    21 min

  5. AUG 3

    Stories about Brant Cooper with Ashok Kamal

    With the passing of Brant Cooper, many of us are finding it helpful to share our stories of how Brant connected, inspired, and continues to push us forward. In this latest recording, Ashok Kamal, Executive Director of NuFund Ventures, and Neal Bloom share how they met, how Brant played a key role in their community development roles, and how they will continue to run with the torch forward. Watch Brant Cooper interview Leo Widrich of Buffer below. See the School of Rap intro song for Founder Fight Club, a Brant Cooper event, below. Join Brant Cooper’s Memorial Service by his family on August 4 at 4pm at Powerhouse Park in Del Mar. Donations can be made to the Brant Cooper Leadership Fund here by selecting the appropriate drop down box.

    31 min

  6. JUL 26

    This Week in San Diego Tech News - July 26, 2024

    Listen & subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms. Welcome everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News by Neal Bloom and Fred Grier from Fresh Brewed Tech. I’m Neal Bloom from Fresh Brewed Tech, the Tacos and Tech Podcast, and Interlock Capital. I’m Fred Grier, journalist and author of The Business of San Diego substack. I wrote about the tech industry for the San Diego Business Journal for two years. I covered the ins-and-outs of the startup world for much of that time, breaking news on IPOs, fundraising rounds, and M&A. Promote the show:  Before we dive in, we wanted to ask our listeners and SD Tech fans to help us grow the show, leave a review and share with one other person who should be more plugged in with the SD Tech Scene. Thank you for the support and for helping us build the San Diego Startup Community. 7/24 Fundings $1B in VC funding for Q2 Athletic Brewing raises $50 at a $800m valuation Term Labs raises $5.5m Seed Kandji raises another $100M Element Biosciences raises a $277m Series D Kratos new hypersonic vehicle takes flight Fashionphile is launching a Coronado pop-up this summer in Coronado Eli Lily inks a deal with Radionics that could be worth $1B Novartis is shutting down their SD office and cutting 100 jobs An’s Gelato is #1 Gelato in the U.S. Events – For full list – check The Social Coyote Event debrief - Carlsbad Life In Action Tech Gathering - July 16, next one Sept 23 Cheryl Goodman’s new book launch - July 26 Listen in to our interview with Cheryl here   Carlsbad Life in Action Cleantech Gathering - Aug 5 SD EDC Summer Bash - Aug 22 TEDxSanDiegoWomen - Aug 28 Interlock’s event calendar - look for what’s public and what’s private that we’re involved in

    31 min

  7. JUL 15

    How To Win Friends and Influence Robots with Cheryl K. Goodman

    Brand new podcast interview with Cheryl Goodman, CEO of FindGood.Tech and author of How To Win Friends and Influence Robots: An AI Guide for Non-Tech Brilliants Minds.   Listen & subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms. We are excited to have Cheryl Goodman on the latest episode of the Tacos and Tech podcast. As a long time friend, we reminisce about all the ways we’ve collaborated in the tech community and Cheryl has been a tech leader going back to the MP3.com days through now as Vice Chair of Startup San Diego and CEO of FindGood.tech, which is an AI-forward, Go-to-Market consulting agency. It’s through her thought leadership, including at Interlock Summit, Startup San Diego 1st Mondays, TechCon SoCal, Dev & Data Night, and as a writer for Forbes, that’s she’s heard the repeated ask for breaking down the AI advances into common terms to bring enterprises up to speed for AI’s potential. Listen in to hear more about her book, the upcoming launch party, and her favorite taco spot! Follow Cheryl at her FindGood.Tech website and on LinkedIn. Buy her book directly here. Join the book launch party on July 26 at 3pm. Details here.

    29 min

  8. JUL 8

    This Week in San Diego Tech News - July 8, 2024

    Listen & subscribe on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms. Welcome everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News by Neal Bloom and Fred Grier from Fresh Brewed Tech. I’m Neal Bloom from Fresh Brewed Tech, the Tacos and Tech Podcast, and Interlock Capital. I’m Fred Grier, journalist and author of The Business of San Diego substack. I wrote about the tech industry for the San Diego Business Journal for two years. I covered the ins-and-outs of the startup world for much of that time, breaking news on IPOs, fundraising rounds, and M&A. Promote the show:  Before we dive in, we wanted to ask our listeners and SD Tech fans to help us grow the show, leave a review and share with one other person who should be more plugged in with the SD Tech Scene. Thank you for the support and for helping us build the San Diego Startup Community.   Little Tech Agenda by Marc Andreesen  7/7 News Eli Lilly, Pfizer, J&J incubating the next big drug in San Diego Liquid Instruments Closes $12 Million Round Huega House Hats nearly doubled its 2023 revenue Aptera monetizes its IP portfolio for $130 Million Sonocharge raises $8.5 Million SD’s Artiva plans IPO to fund NK cell therapy's autoimmune trials   Events – For full list – check The Social Coyote Look for upcoming Community CoWorking Days - Aquillius and SDx July 11 Morning with Aquillius SD Founders Hike - July 12 Do you want this weekly? Let Neal know SDx events 💻 AI Hacker Club: Tue, July 16th, 6-8pm | https://lu.ma/dtwrgba3  📚 AI Paper Club: 1. Thu, July 11th, 6-8pm | InstructPix2Pix: https://lu.ma/zg441svz - presented by Panna Felsen 2. Thu, July 25th, 6-8pm | Scaling Monosemanticity: https://lu.ma/v2aqei21 - presented by Diego Caples Carlsbad Tech Founders event - July 16 Carlsbad Cleantech Founders - July 29

    23 min
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