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Condor Software
Condor Software is a San Diego-based company that builds a Financial Intelligence Platform purpose-built for biopharma R&D. It unifies clinical, operational, and financial data - from CTMS, EDC, ERP, and vendor systems - into a single source of truth, using AI to automate clinical trial accruals, forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning, and vendor reconciliation. Founded in 2020 by Jennifer Kyle, Condor replaces the spreadsheets that still run most clinical-trial finance, and reports customers reaching 90%+ forecast accuracy and 70% faster month-end close. It counts Acadia, Alumis, BridgeBio, and Madrigal among its customers and raised a $24M Series A led by Insight Partners in March 2026.
Ivy Energy
Ivy Energy is a San Diego cleantech company whose cloud software, Virtual Grid, automates the billing and management of onsite solar, battery storage, and EV charging for multi-tenant properties. It solves a stubborn accounting problem - fairly splitting the value of a shared rooftop solar array among many tenants - and turns that onsite energy into recurring, predictable net operating income for property owners. Founded in 2019 by Dover Janis, the company raised an $18M Series A led by SolarEdge in 2024 and serves multifamily and commercial real estate portfolios across multiple U.S. markets.
Atomic Insights
Atomic Insights is a San Diego-based wealthtech company building a centralized treasury and money-movement platform for registered investment advisors (RIAs) and family offices. Its software captures payment requests, orchestrates approvals, and executes wire and ACH transfers end-to-end through real-time custodian and bank APIs, replacing the manual, error-prone workflows that wealth managers have long stitched together by hand. Founded in 2023 and led by co-founder and CEO Lucas Babbitt, the company raised a $10 million seed round in January 2026 led by Aquiline Capital Partners, with participation from Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures.
Hume Supernatural
Hume Supernatural is a San Diego-based clean personal care company making plant-, mineral-, and probiotic-based products - led by an aluminum-free deodorant - that support the skin microbiome while controlling odor. Founded in 2020 by an attorney, a Sun Bum veteran, and a cosmetic chemist, the brand rejects the trade-off between 'natural' and 'effective,' formulating from scratch with proprietary biotech ingredients. It sells direct-to-consumer, on Amazon, and through retailers including Whole Foods, Sprouts, and CVS, and has grown into one of the fastest-growing natural deodorants in the U.S. natural retail channel.
Up 'n go
Up 'n go is a San Diego fintech that lets restaurant guests pay their check by scanning a QR code or tapping a texted link - no app to download. Diners view the bill, split it any number of ways, pay with Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo, PayPal, a card or gift card, and leave feedback, all from their own phone. Built to plug directly into POS systems like NCR Aloha, Toast, Oracle Micros and Simphony, the company was among the first to bring app-free pay-at-the-table to U.S. restaurants and has since processed more than $1 billion across nearly 14 million contactless payments at chains from First Watch to Fox Restaurant Concepts.
Mohammed Memon
Mohammed Memon is the CEO and co-founder of Hifinite Inc. (dba Chronica), a San Diego telehealth company that builds an AI-enabled digital health platform for remote patient monitoring, chronic care, and virtual visits. An engineer turned product entrepreneur, he holds graduate degrees from Clemson and Harvard and spent two decades shipping software before founding Hifinite in 2016. Under his direction the company built the hiCare suite and the Chronica brand, reached roughly $1.7M in annual revenue with a lean 23-person team, and showed up at the industry's biggest telemedicine stages.
Touradj Barman
Touradj Barman is the co-founder and CEO of Up 'n go, the San Diego company that lets restaurant guests scan a QR code, pull up their check, and pay without downloading an app. An MIT graduate with a Yale MBA and more than 20 issued patents - some acquired by Microsoft and now underpinning push and group messaging - Barman started Up 'n go to solve a small annoyance, splitting the check at a single San Diego restaurant. The platform has since processed more than $1.1 billion across over 16 million checks for 11 million-plus guests nationwide.
Cloudbeds
Cloudbeds is a San Diego-based hospitality management platform that gives independent hotels, hostels, vacation rentals, and lodging groups a single cloud system to run reservations, distribution, payments, revenue management, and guest communication. Founded in 2012 by Adam Harris and Richard Castle, the fully remote company replaces the tangle of disconnected legacy tools that property owners juggle, serving tens of thousands of properties across roughly 150 countries and, more recently, layering in AI through its Cloudbeds Intelligence and Signals products.
Avneesh Agrawal
Avneesh Agrawal is the co-founder and CEO of Netradyne, the San Diego AI company that turns dashcams into a real-time safety coach for commercial drivers. After more than a decade at Qualcomm, where he led 4G LTE research, ran corporate R&D, and served as president of Qualcomm India and South Asia, he left in 2015 to chase a convergence he saw coming: cheap camera sensors, edge computing, and deep learning arriving at the same moment. Netradyne's Driver-i platform now analyzes billions of miles of driving and reduces accidents by 30 to 50 percent. In January 2025, a $90 million Series D led by Point72 pushed the company past a $1 billion valuation. A Stanford PhD with more than 150 US patents, Agrawal builds at the intersection of research and the real world.
John Sjölund
John Sjölund is the CEO and co-founder of Luna Diabetes, a San Diego medical-device company building a small overnight patch pump that automates insulin dosing for the tens of millions of people who use pens rather than pumps. A Swedish-American inventor named on 30-plus patents, he previously founded Timesulin with his brother Andreas (a co-creator of Skype), sold it to Bigfoot Biomedical in 2017, then built the Bigfoot Unity connected dosing system that Abbott acquired in 2023. In August 2025 Luna raised a $23.6M Series A led by Vensana Capital.
Turquoise Health
Turquoise Health is a San Diego health-tech company building the operating system for healthcare contracts and payments. It turns the messy, hidden world of payer and provider pricing - machine-readable files, claims, contracts and Medicare benchmarks - into clear, auditable rates and AI-readable contracts, so that buying and paying for care could one day be as straightforward as any other transaction. More than 280 organizations, including major health systems, national payers, pharma companies and brokers, use the platform.