2019 SDVG Cool Companies Announced!

Mar 28, 2019

San Diego Venture Group has selected and announced the 2019 Cool Companies. CEOs of selected companies will be invited to exclusive networking events with visiting VCs. Over the past few years, Cool Companies have raised over $200M.

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 […]

Apli

Apli is the fastest end-to-end solution for contingent staffing and permanent hiring in Mexico. At Apli, AI and automation create jobs by eliminating friction in permanent recruiting and turning missed days of work into temporary work opportunities. Using a chat bot to profile candidates and machine learning to constantly improve match precision, Apli is an […]

Aquacycl

Aquacyle provides the BioElectricalchemical Treatment Technology (BETT) for onsite wastewater treatment. The BETT systems eliminate up to 80% of incoming primary sludge, recover energy as direct electricity (no methane) and can provide 90% reduction in footprint and a 50-90% reduction in operating expenses relative to conventional aerobic approaches for high-strength wastewater streams.

Ateios

Ateios has developed a revolutionary battery technology that will reshape electronics. Primary Zinc Printable Flexible Batteries. The first all printable flexible battery with an areal capacity of 2.5 mAh/cm2. With its proprietary, platform technology based on nanocomposite ink formulation, Ateios’ first all-printed, ultra-thin, flexible battery will enable new form factors that were once unimaginable.

Atlazo

Atlazo is the only company developing AI System-on-Chip (SoC) for healthcare enabling hearable, wearable, and battery-powered medical devices. Atlazo is bringing together cutting edge innovations in AI, Machine Learning and medical-grade bio-sensing in a single chip semiconductor device to enable health and medical device manufacturers to develop next generation products faster and at lower cost […]

Bitmo

Bitmo is a mobile gifting platform transforming a $160 billion gift card industry. Its innovative platform allows consumers to gift easily and securely right from their mobile wallet. Unlike plastic gift cards, Bitmo is highly flexible and allows users the ability to split and even exchange card value from one store to another for free. […]

Cardea Bio

Cardea is merging the digital and biological domains into a single system, providing for instant, immediate, and complex biochemical analysis in any setting. We do this through our patented graphene biosensor. We partner with other companies to serve multiple markets simultaneously, helping others be competitive in markets as diverse as genomics, drug testing, diagnostics and […]

CLiCS

CLiCS has invented a hair color as a service business for professional salons. CLiCS has developed and integrated the first patented robotic hair color dispenser, The first mixable non-ammonia hair color line, the first mobile hair color design and service app and the first completely automated hair color inventory management platform and auto-pay system. The […]

ClientPoint

ClientPoint’s top-rated proposal creation, delivery, tracking and management platform helps companies generate higher close rates and shorter sales cycles, while reducing costly proposal errors and buying salespeople more time to sell. This core offering is part of our broader mission to digitally super-empower business by bringing the best tools, technology and practices into an unequaled […]

CourseKey

CourseKey is a b2b SaaS platform that enables education companies to digitize the collection of their academic information for analysis, intervention and audit preparation.  

Daasity

A Data-as-a-Service company that provides a proprietary end to end platform for small and medium sized direct-to-consumer companies to truly harness their data for better business decisions.

formsense

formsense technology powers the next generation of compression apparel and sports training equipment that provides the first-ever volumetric assessment of athletic form in real-time to elevate performance and prevent injuries

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 […]

GoMeta

GoMeta, founded by former Googler / CTO of MySpace, builds powerful platforms that make developing apps much faster, and accessible to many more people. Over 200,000 applications have been created so far, by all kinds of people from over 180 countries.

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GoShare

We use technology to improve last-mile delivery and moving experiences for our customers. Our mission is to organize the world’s trucks to make them more accessible and useful. Our vision is to create the largest network of trucks in the world. More than 90,000 customers and 12,000 Delivery Professionals trust GoShare to deliver. 2019, 2020, […]

GoSite

GoSite provides a modern tech stack to small businesses that make it easier for their customers to find, book, and pay for their services online.

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.

Kazuhm

Kazuhm is a next generation workload optimization platform that empowers companies to maximize all compute resources from desktop to server to cloud to Edge. Kazuhm securely and efficiently recaptures unused processing power to boost productivity and minimize unnecessary IT investment. As the first fully-connected, commercial grade compute ecosystem, it allows organizations worldwide to reduce cloud […]

LawMatics

CRM, Intake and Marketing automation software for law firms. Manage your intake process, email and text message marketing, marketing analytics, etc help law firms get more clients and turn old business into new business.

Lennd

Lennd is a next generation event and venue operations platform. We are centralizing and streamlining event and venue operations in order to access, manage and process the billions of dollars in internal event payments, orders, and invoices, so event teams can work smarter, move faster and increase their ROI. What Salesforce and LinkedIn have done […]

Lynx Bio

Lynx Biosciences, Inc. is commercializing a microfluidic platform technology that is leveraging standard-of-care cancer biopsies to measure the response of a patient’s cancer cells in the context of their natural environment. Lynx Biosciences will offer this test as a service to physicians and patients, allowing them to identify them most efficacious treatment option at any […]

MemComputing

MemComputing delivers quantum computing performance to any computer with our software-based MemCPU(tm) Coprocessors. Developed at UC San Diego by two PhD Physicists.

Neuralace Medical

NeuraLace Medical

NeuraLace Medical is a startup medical device company founded in San Diego whose bold mission is to disrupt the chronic pain epidemic.

Qwick

Qwick connects hospitality businesses (hotels, caterers, restaurants, bars, golf courses, etc.) with food and beverage professionals on-demand to fill shifts in real-time. When a business posts a shift on our platform, we send out notifications to all the workers that meet that criteria, then workers accept the shifts they want to work, and we pay […]

Sendlane

Sendlane is an intelligence driven, cross-channel marketing automation platform designed to empower B2C businesses to connect with customers through automated, behavior-based communications. We focus on features to help serve our core verticals which are Content Creators and eCommerce Brands in the SMB and Mid-market.

Seraphina Therapeutics

Seraphina Therapeutics is leveraging the evolution of longevity to help people live longer, healthier lives. By upregulating mechanisms evolved in long-lived species, Seraphina has a generated a rich pipeline of promising therapeutics and novel genetic targets. Seraphina’s therapeutic candidates are being developed to treat comorbidities of aging and to slow the rate of aging itself.

Shadowbox

Shadowbox

Shadowbox is a ground-breaking, patented, secure, no-code SAAS integration platform that connects web applications without the need for APIs. Our first product was launched in late 2018 targeting interoperability in healthcare, connecting Electronic Health Records (“EHRs”) with Ancillary Healthcare Service Systems (i.e., Diagnostic Labs, Treatment Centers, Durable Medical Equipment, Hospice Care, and so on).

TicketSauce

TicketSauce is a private label “Software as a Service” event management solution focusing on growing transactional revenue and data for media companies, event organizers, and convention/visitor bureaus. The complete event management platform provides the ability to control service fee related revenue and provide additional promotion for any events. Its robust, easy and fully-customizable event software […]

Tiled

Tiled is a microapp platform. A microapp is an informational interactive content experience that is built without code. Tiled microapps enable sales, marketing and HR teams to have more effective conversations and communication.

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.

UBIQ

Ubiq is a technology company that has simplified the complex and messy world of encryption through a set of APIs, that are simple enough for any developer to use, yet scalable and extensible enough to encrypt data effortlessly across diverse applications and programming languages, cloud environments, and storage types. By enabling developers to quickly integrate […]

Vivid Genomics

Vivid Genomics is a precision medicine company dedicated to improving the success of drug development in neurodegenerative disease.

Voterfied

Voterfied’s participatory democracy platform bridges the communication gap between politicians and constituents by establishing an engagement hub where citizens vote on important issues, using secure blockchain technology to record their opinions. Voterfied educates citizens on the issues, allows them to be heard, encourages informed decision-making by representatives, and decreases political disenfranchisement. As an always-on virtual […]

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