With one quarter of 2023 under our belts, we would like to take a look back on everything that has happened and everything that we are excited for in the other three quarters of the year. Read more about our new admissions to the EvoNexus incubator, the Satellite Direct to Device SIG with Viasat and Qualcomm, and Demo Day below!

Call for applications

Are you a Founder or know someone who would be a great fit for EvoNexus? We are always accepting rolling applications to join our San Diego Incubator. Follow the link below to begin our application process. We look forward to learning more about your innovations!

Get involved with EvoNexus

Our triumphs are a result of our close partnerships with the world’s leading influential companies, as well as with angel, seed, and other early-stage investors! EvoNexus, as a non-profit, further succeeds thanks to the support we receive from our volunteers and selection committee members, and top providers of professional services. If you or someone you know are interested in becoming involved with EvoNexus, please follow the link below and fill out the form. 

We are excited to announce that the EvoNexus Demo Day will be happening on June 30th from 3-7PM in the Qualcomm Jacobs Auditorium. Pre-register for the event below! All EvoNexus sponsor company employees and EvoNexus portfolio companies will receive complimentary admission. Students and military members will be able to attend at a discounted rate. If none of these discounts apply to you, make sure to pre-register at the lower price below so you can avoid the higher one at the door!

We have always been proud of our connection to the San Diego startup community. 2023 is no different. Below are some highlights from our community events, including the Satellite Direct to Device SIG at Viasat, the Connect Mentor Madness event, and the Carta Lunch and Learn event. 

Check out some of our portfolio company funding rounds this past quarter!

• CARI Health raised $2.3M in Seed Round to advance remote medication monitoring. 
• Fabric8Labs closes $50M Series B financing for electrochemical additive manufacturing technology. 
• SOCi, a San Diego, CA-based provider of a marketing platform for multi-location brands, raised $120M in funding.
• ecoATM Gazelle raised an additional round of $50M investment to drive smartphone access and sustainability. 

The partnerships, achievements, and recognition that our companies earn throughout their journey, tell the story of how the company got to where it is. Here we celebrate some of our companies’ successes across the first quarter of 2023!

• Ixana (formerly Hearcomm) announced YR11, the world’s first high-speed Wi-R silicon chip ready for customer sampling.
• Cardea Bio, Inc. reaches an 8-year milestone of the first external partner starting to use the BPU (Biosignal Processing Unit) platform for advancing drug discovery research to produce new and highly sought-after insights. 
• Astrome built the world’s first multi-beam E-band radio that works on the 71-76 and 81-86 GHz spectrum. Called GigaMesh, the radio is a backhaul unit that telecom network providers can utilize to provide wireless, high speed internet connectivity even in rural areas, without the need for laying down fiber optic cables.
• Brelyon announced that it is partnering with Velocity Esports, a provider of venues for gamers and esports enthusiasts, to bring Brelyon’s Ultra Reality displays to Velocity locations.
• SOCi Inc. announced an integration with Apple Business Connect to provide up-to-date, local business information and special offers and promotions. 
• Ionia, Inc., a leading payments and rewards platform, and Bits of Stock, the platform that powers stock rewards & loyalty programs, have announced a partnership. 
• QuSecure, Inc. signed a software distribution agreement with Arrow Electronics, Inc. Now QuSecure’s QuProtect software is available to Arrow Electronics’ commercial and federal channel partners.
• Oculi forms strategic partnership with GlobalFoundries to advance edge sensing technology. 
• Open Sesame’s SyncStage and AWS Wavelength enable multi-country music jam session over 5G. 

• Sateliot successfully launched The GroundBreaker, the first-ever satellite under 5G standard to democratize IoT, via SpaceX Falcon 9. 

• QuSecure collaborates with Red Hat to deliver enhanced post-quantum cryptography modernization. 

Finally, we are excited to highlight two companies who in the last quarter were admitted into EvoNexus:

Falcomm is a fabless semiconductor startup currently located in Atlanta (soon to be San Diego) on a mission to provide the most energy efficient power amplifier and integrated front-end module products. Our patented Dual Drive Power Amplifier was validated in a commercial CMOS SOI platform, obtaining world record efficiencies. The founders, Edgar Garay, PhD, and James Kaney are both out of Georgia Tech where they developed the basis for the Falcomm power amplifier solution. 

RialtoSoft is focused on making digital art/NFT sales easy and accessible for everyone, to convert Web2 users to Web3. The company, founded by serial entrepreneurs Barbara Bry and Neil Senturia, has developed two versions of a white-glove B2C NFT marketplace that accepts payment with a credit card or crypto. The first is a white label, individually branded marketplace and the second is a shared marketplace for a variety of verticals including The Impact Collective for nonprofits and Illuminate.art for art galleries and artists. RialtoSoft is the "Intel Inside" solution that allows organizations to control their brand. The company's services cover all aspects from NFT creation to end user sales, including press outreach and communications.  

Prepared by EvoNexus Portfolio & Events Manager and Board Liaison, Ashlyn Haines