Wow, half-way through the year already! This quarter, EvoNexus hosted our first in person board meeting in 2+ years, networked deeply within the San Diego technology entrepreneurship community, and admitted multiple exciting new startups into the program.

As an innovation hub, we are excited to once again open our doors to the San Diego tech community. Be sure to keep an eye out for EvoNexus events this summer, including the much anticipated return of our Special Interest Groups! 

This quarter we also launched our first MarketLink program of the year, with Murata. The program targeted early-stage and growth companies in cleantech, medtech and deeptech, driven to build the future of electronics in concert with a global industry leader. The program offers successful applicants the opportunity to meet directly with key Murata decision-makers, to explore various pathways to shared success. 

Continue below to learn more about:

• Call for Applications
• Get Involved with EvoNexus
• Funding Rounds
• News-Worthy Moments
• New Startup Profile

Call for applications

Are you a Founder or do you known someone who would be a great fit for EvoNexus? We are currently accepting rolling applications for our San Diego portfolios – CommTech & Embedded Tech and MedTech. 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 in CommTech & Embedded Tech, MedTech, and FinTech, 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 are involved with a company that should be connected with EvoNexus, click on the button below to connect with us.

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

• Housecall Pro, founded by two former Qualcomm veterans, is a software platform helping home services businesses through a quality CRM tool to manage their finances and operations. The company has raised a $125 million Series D at a $1.02 billion pre-money valuation, led by Permira Growth Opportunities (advised by Royal Bank of Canada) and Vista Credit Partners. This is the largest funding round in the history of EvoNexus!
• Carlsmed, a bespoke medical device spinal company, secured a $30 million Series B from B Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, The Vertical Group, Cove Fund and Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health.
• Cardea Bio, the world's only mass producer of biocompatible, graphene-enabled semiconductors, was awarded $1.1 million in Gates Foundation funding to develop an electronic nose to rapidly diagnose infectious diseases via breath.
• Pleno, founded by serial entrepreneur Dr. Pieter van Rooyen, is the world’s first Hypercoding^TM instrument platform that will revolutionize biological target detection for clinical testing. The company raised a $15 million Pre-Series A round led by Medical Excellence Capital and Alexandria Venture Investments.
• GroupSolver, a market research technology company, raised $2.5 million in funding from Eterus Capital, Neulogy Ventures, and NuFund.
• OnniSync, an AI/NLP tool to enable government R&D capital deployment, secured $1 million in non-dilutive funding from government and commercial markets.

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 second quarter of 2022!

• Advanced Image Robotics won the 2022 National Association of Broadcasters Technology Innovation Award and the Product of the Year Award.
• Astrome developed the world's first multi-link E band radio, Gigamesh, to revolutionize the deployment of wireless backhaul in Rural Broadband and Defense communications markets.
• CB Therapeutics has been granted a new patent covering the use of microorganisms to produce tryptamines and their analogs, such as psilocybin and various other molecules found in "magic" mushrooms.
• FarmTogether's Galaxy Organic Apple Orchard was recognized as the runner-up for Agri Investor's Farmland Deal of the Year!
• GoX Labs, through a public-private collaboration, is developing a wearable exoskeleton technology called PhenEx, which will help workers squat and lift heavy loads promoting overall worker health.
• Guru signed a LOI to be acquired by Live Current Media, Inc. 
• QuSecure introduced its quantum orchestration platform, QuProtect™, the industry’s first end-to-end PQC software-based solution uniquely designed to protect encrypted communications and data with quantum-resilience using quantum secure channels.
• QuSecure became the only vendor to be awarded an SBIR Phase III Federal Government procurement contract for post-quantum cybersecurity (PQC) solutions. 
• UCAP Power, Inc. is a 2022 Edison Award winner for their POWERBLoK ultracapacitor based energy storage solution. 

Finally, we are excited to highlight one company in particular that was recently admitted into EvoNexus: Sensoride!

Sensoride, founded by Dr. Daniel Moradi, is developing a software to deliver high resolution radar sensor for automotive - a more reliable solution for self-driving vehicles, blind spot detectors, lane change radars, and emergency breaking.