2018 SDVG Cool Companies Announced!

May 24, 2018

The 2018 SDVG Cool Co’s Announced!

The Fastest-Growing, Most Exciting Startups in San Diego

Accel Robotics

Accel Robotics enables automated “Grab and Go” shopping experiences across existing and emerging store formats. Our camera-based AI system allows any shopper to enter a store, pick the items they want, then walk out receiving a receipt via text or app notification. The end result is a better, more convenient shopping experience that improves existing […]

Additive Rocket Corporation (ARC)

With a revolutionary design for launch vehicle engines and satellite thrusters, the Additive Rocket Corporation (ARC) leverages advanced simulation and 3D metal printing to produce highly optimized propulsion systems for the space and defense industries.

Approved

Approved is on a mission to bring transparency, efficiency and a little sanity to the mortgage experience. We build technology that agents, borrowers, lenders and their teams of loan officers and processors use everyday to streamline the back office, and provide a world class experience for borrowers. The Approved Digital Mortgage Platform allows any lender, […]

Blueboard

Blueboard is the employee rewards and recognition platform for the modern workplace. We enable over 100 clients like Pinterest, Lyft, GoPro & Google to reward their top employees with local, curated experiences (think skydiving, Ferrari driving, Michelin-star dinners, massages, cooking classes, etc.) with just one click.

Doctible

Doctible provides healthcare providers (Doctors, Dentists, Chiropractors, Optometrists) with marketing and automation technology solutions to help them run their business more efficiently. Founded in 2013, the company now provides a full suite of software solutions to address a providers pain points in managing its online reputation, strengthen patient communication, streamline daily operational tasks and grow […]

DTX Pharma Updated Connect San Diego

DTx Pharma

DTx Pharma technology has enabled safe and effective delivery of RNA drugs to tissues like muscle, nerve and the heart.

Epitracker

Epitracker, Inc. is unlocking secrets long held by dolphins to help treat the world’s most devastating diseases. Combining metabolomics and big data analytics, Epitracker has discovered over one hundred smart-screened small molecules targeting aging associated diseases. Our lead compound, ETI-101, has demonstrated broad efficacy in alleviating inflammation, anemia, fibrosis and metabolic syndrome. Epitracker is currently […]

eSUB

eSUB is the only cloud-based project management software created exclusively for Subcontractors of all trades in the construction industry.

GigaIO

GigaIO enables the data center applications of tomorrow: AI/DL, the Industrial Internet of Things, Edge computing, and disaggregation, by solving the #1 compliant: interconnect performance and flexibility. The large variety of new compute and storage technologies makes demands on the interconnects that bind them together that today severely reduce system performance. Legacy interconnects were never […]

GrowGuru

GroGuru

GroGuru supplies precision soil and irrigation monitoring and management systems to the commercial agriculture industry. GroGuru is all about strategic irrigation management. We have a patented wireless underground system (WUGS) for soil monitoring that enables the permanent installation of soil moisture sensors. GroGuru leases hardware and sell a software as a service (SaaS) product marketed […]

Gryphon

Gryphon is a cloud managed network protection platform powered by adaptive machine learning targeting the connected home and small businesses with a re-occurring business model. Gryphon combines speed, parental control, and intelligent cyber protection in a simple plug and play mesh router.

Home Bay

Home Bay, a San Diego based company, provides consumers a smarter and easier way to buy and sell homes without commissions, saving home buyers and sellers an average of $16,000 per transaction. We provide traditional services such as pricing strategy, negotiation and closing management along with professional photography, an installed yard sign and exposure across […]

Hookit

A pioneer in the sponsorship technology space, Hookit is the global standard for quantifying sports sponsorship value across social, digital and traditional media. Hookit works with brands and rights holders to empower them to buy & sell sponsorships more effectively. With Hookit data, rights holders can prove the value they bring to sponsors. For brands, […]

Iteros

Iteros is a software company on a mission to create smarter, more reliable, more sustainable energy grid. Their energy management system makes it easy to design, integrate, and operate energy assets like solar and battery storage devices. The platform provides an end-to-end platform that allows their customers to easily model and simulate changes to a […]

Lab Fellows

LabFellows provides SaaS workflow automation tool for life sciences operations. We believe scientists developing medical breakthroughs shouldn’t have to spend 42% of their day on lab administrative tasks to meet compliance, logistics, and procurement needs of life science companies. Before LabFellows, they had to. Our platform and proprietary FUSION technology streamlines 17 hours a week […]

Measurabl

Measurabl is the world’s fastest-growing sustainability software for the built environment. Our automation tools make it easy and accurate for more than 5 billion square feet of commercial property across 67 countries to collect sustainability data, analyze, and report on performance, and identify energy and water efficiency opportunities. Learn more about Measurabl at www.measurabl.com.

MedCrypt

MedCrypt has developed a security toolkit that allows medical device developers to focus on diagnosing and treating disease, while ensuring their devices comply with security best practices. And since each installation of our software will communicate with our MedCrypt network, we can use machine learning-based transaction monitoring algorithms to detect anomalous behavior, thwarting attacks in […]

Notogen

Notogen is a biotechnology company creating regenerative therapeutics for spine, orthopedic and sports medicine related conditions. Starting with Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD), Notogen’s initial product is an intradiscal injection consisting of two growth factors belonging to unique families of proteins. This groundbreaking therapeutic is based on more than 18 years of award winning research and […]

Omnics

Omnics provides supply chain planning software solutions that help companies make sound, data-driven, timely decisions while transforming its data into a competitive asset. Omnics automates your supply chain planning processes and uses AI-enabled applications for strategic and tactical planning . Omnics software platform’s suite of capabilities include extracting, processing, analyzing and collaborating supply chain planning […]

OrPro Therapeutics

OrPro Therapeutics

OrPro Therapeutics, Inc. (San Diego, CA) is developing a therapeutic platform based on thioredoxin, a human protein disulfide-reducing enzyme with unique mucus-normalizing, anti-inflammatory and anti-infective properties.

PayRent.com

In an increasingly digital world, PayRent.com provides a payment technology platform for landlords that manage 1 or multiple rental properties to accept rent online. Tenants and their roommates can setup automatic bank transfers or pay rent with a credit card, earning points and rewards along the way. We provide industry specific tools for landlords, unlike […]

Primo Energy

Primo Energy produces alternative energy systems that incorporate wind, solar and batteries for a complete nanogrid operation. (formerly Primo Wind)

SenseMetrics

Sensemetrics transforms industrial sensor data into leading risk management and safety solutions for the largest companies in the world. We understand the issues posed by legacy infrastructure in the industrial arena and have built our software platform to intelligently consolidate and connect to disparate information sources so that clients may garner what they seek out […]

Smart Shelf

The AWM SMART SHELF is designed to replicate key benefits of the online experience into physical retail environments. The platform utilizes ruggedized shelf-edge displays combined with high definition optical sensors to automate intelligence into on-the-shelf inventory levels and planogram compliance, play optimal video based on shopper distance (including product pricing and information), provide insight into […]

Sourcify

Sourcify is the fastest growing sourcing platform backed by Y Combinator that helps hundreds of companies manufacture products around the world. Our platform adds visualization, transparency, and trust to the manufacturing world, enabling companies to produce product more cost effectively and faster than ever.

Trials.ai

The Trials.ai Smart Protocol solution leverages frontier technology to intelligently guide research teams through the process of designing their clinical trials, saving Pharma, Biotech & Device companies time and money.

Triton Algae Innovations Ltd.

Triton provides novel solutions for the world’s food shortages and has ushered the microalgae through the GRAS process. The miroalgae tastes great and is rich in plant proteins, omega oils and vitamin A. Triton has developed scalable, environment-friendly manufacturing processes, demonstrated benefits to gut health, and pioneered biotechnology tools to produce nutritional compounds for future […]

Trust & Will

Trust & Will is modernizing the $170B trust and estate planning industry with an easy, fast, and secure way to set up your estate plan online. Our vision is to establish Trust & Will as the category leader for a modern estate planning solution, and our mission is to help everyone leave their legacy.

Truvian

Truvian Sciences

Truvian is working to empower consumers to manage, track, and own their personal health data. Using our technology, consumers can order a panel of tests, provide a small blood sample, and receive results in minutes directly on their smartphone. By making the testing convenient and affordable, Truvian will move from spot check diagnostic testing to […]

Uqora

Uqora is a vaginal health company that has started by tackling urinary tract infections (UTIs). UTIs are the second most common infection in the U.S., responsible for more doctors visits per year than everything but the common cold. Despite the magnitude of the problem, the focus has long been on treatment instead of prevention. Uqora […]

Wildfire Systems

Wildlink’s patent pending systems use artificial intelligence and natural language processing to detect product recommendations within all forms of digital communications and transform them into links to online stores from our network of over 20,000 merchants. When a user recommends a product, the platform automatically creates a Wildlink which points to the retailer’s product page. […]

Yembo

Yembo is building computer vision and AI technology that makes the shopping process for the 40M Americans who relocate from a stressful, time consuming and fragmented experience into a interactive process that takes only a few minutes.

Yobi

Yobi is the first cannabis-specific retail operations platform built by retail technology experts. The Yobi platform was designed and built from the ground up leveraging the methodologies employed by global brands, but engineered specifically for dispensary operations. By offering enterprise solutions with an intuitive user interface, our clients experience a significant reduction in training time, […]

Zebit

Zebit was founded to provide radically better financial options for all consumers. With over 100 million credit-challenged U.S. Adults struggling to financially stay afloat, Zebit is the first to offer up to $2,500 of interest-free credit at 0% APR to all members without a credit check. Members can shop millions of name brand products in […]

Zesty.io

Zesty.io is fast-forwarding the next generation of cloud-based web content management systems (WCMS) for marketers and developers of mid-market and enterprise organizations. With its 100% native SaaS content management system (CMS), global customers like Sony Electronics, Acorns.com, Rocket League, Astroglide and Hofbruhaus are speeding, scaling and securing global distribution and website management of digital content.

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