
San Diego
The breakdown
401 startups on file in San Diego, spanning B2B, Healthcare, Biotechnology, 366 of 401 have disclosed funding, $25.78B combined, 78 at Series A stage, founding dates span 1985-2026.
A bit of history
The city courted the U.S. Navy in the early 1900s, and Naval Base San Diego opened in 1922, planting the military and engineering roots the region still runs on. UC San Diego professor Irwin Jacobs founded Linkabit in 1968 and later Qualcomm in 1985, inventing wireless technology at the heart of 3G and 4G. A few miles away, fellow UCSD professor Ivor Royston launched Hybritech in 1978, the region's first biotech company. San Diego is now one of the world's top biotech clusters.
Startup & tech events in San Diego
Investors headquartered in San Diego

Intrigue Health aims to empower patients and healthcare providers with home diagnostics.
Founded by Wharton MBA Paul Dohrenwend; its premium sake made its retail debut at a Costco in San Diego.

Craitor builds the production layer for critical hardware, deployed where it is needed, aiming to manufacture sovereignty.
MAPLE FUNG MD INC provides biotech consulting services, including fractional CMO roles and protocol design, and also offers per diem nephrology care and serves as a clinical trial investigator.

Influsence, Inc. provides an AI SaaS platform that offers data insights for influencer marketing to help increase reach, engagement, and revenue for ad agencies and companies.
Seasats offers ocean autonomy solutions designed to deploy in minutes, detect from miles, and react at once, providing high-resolution data for maritime domain awareness, intelligence and surveillance missions, and subsea mapping.

Applied Data Finance is a fintech innovator that offers fair and responsible credit access to underestimated U.S. consumers through an AI-powered underwriting and lending platform.

Condor is an AI-powered platform that unifies clinical, operational, and financial data into a single source of truth for life sciences companies to manage R&D finances.

MedicalMex helps and protects international patients traveling to Mexico for affordable medical services, including weight loss surgery, plastic surgery, pain management, hair restoration, dental, vascular, more procedures, orthopedic surgery, and general surgery.

National Funding provides fast small business loans, working capital, term loans, inventory financing, receivables financing, short-term equipment financing, and heavy equipment financing.


Novoron Bioscience is pioneering lipoprotein-receptor drug development to repair damage and degeneration of the brain, spinal cord, and beyond, with therapies to block the spread of prion-like proteins and enhance spinal cord regeneration.

Kenai Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing off-the-shelf dopamine neuron replacement cell therapies and gene-modified medicines to cure neurological conditions.

Neomorph develops molecular glue degraders to target and destroy disease-causing proteins by engineering neomorphic protein surfaces.

Sidewinder Therapeutics pioneers the next generation of bispecific antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) to expand the therapeutic window for patients with difficult-to-treat cancers.

Saphlux provides total micro-LED solutions to enable next-generation displays, including AR Micro-LED Displays and Quantum Dot COB Displays.

RyboDyn is pioneering immunotherapy development by unlocking the dark proteome with its proprietary RyboCypher™ technology to reveal hidden targets and transform biological signals into breakthrough therapies.

Ascent Funding provides private student loans for college and career education, covering up to 100% of tuition and expenses with competitive rates and no fees.
Replicate Bioscience leverages self-replicating RNA (srRNA) vectors to advance treatments across therapeutic areas like infectious disease, oncology, and autoimmune disorders.

Recludix Pharma is developing new oral precision medicines with selective inhibitors to tackle protein targets for people living with inflammatory diseases.
Atomic Insights provides payment workflow automation for RIAs and Family Offices, making money movement easy and compliant for wealth managers, client service, and operations teams.
Primmune Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing systemic cancer immunotherapies that activate the immune system in a precise and controlled manner.

Sharpen DTX, by Resiliency Technologies, Inc., provides mental health literacy tools and prevention toolkits for schools, families, colleges, and community organizations to improve mental wellness and resiliency.

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Payments infrastructure for government benefits

Oral drugs to halt neurodegeneration

We are using the gut microbiome to end cancer.


Fermentation-derived natural products to solve health problems


Bioengineered kidneys for patients with kidney failure

High quality mRNA for therapeutic application
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ML to predict and prevent pregnancy complications


Sourcify helps brands manufacture products in Asia.

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Faster processors for solving NP-complete problems


Drop-in Direct Billing SDK for In-App Purchases


Government-funded online addiction treatment


CRISPR powered Diagnostics with results in minutes.