Bloombites - May 27

Welcome to Bloombites - a weekly brain and heart dump from the front lines about startup community, investing, and building.Here’s who I’ve been meeting with over the last week:Met the Covanos cardiovascular team thanks to Jose Arrieta.Shared notes with Cheryl Turnbull of the Ohio State University Entrepreneurship Center on bridging inventors into startup founders thanks to Derrick Brent.Great walking meeting with Eli Carlson on supporting our founder friends.Erik Groset and I caught up with Casey Dickinson to hear about Superfaction, his latest gaming startup.Interviewed Jamie Platt, CEO of new-to-U.S./Carlsbad diagnostic company Pictor Dx.Caught up with Brett Crosby to learn about his new adtech AI startup AdZen.Coffee with Puesto founder Alex Adler to talk tacos and tech ;)Met with the founding team of LumaLake AI Botond Szatmary and Drew Senyei to learn about the future of senior care monitoring.Attended the graduation ceremony of the latest Founders Institute San Diego & Veteran Class! Congrats, well done Mike Sherbakov and team, and thanks John Z for hosting.Enjoyed a great event by Whittier Trust bringing together local investors to talk about the current economic environment. Thanks to Sandip Bhagat for your deep insight and Jeff Treut for the invite. Welcome officially to San Diego!Impromptu San Diego Angel Conference meeting with Cathy Pucher, where we are co-emceeing the June 5 finale event. Come join us!Internal check in with my Athena team to keep building the partnership.Recorded a gem of a conversation with Jeremy Yamaguchi, CEO of Cabana on the Tacos and Tech Podcast.Good check in with the City of Burbank Economic Development team Marissa Cardwell and Odette Zakarian and Brittany Hodge in planning out June’s PitchFest and the next year’s worth of community building events.Quick catch up on the state of the San Diego SaaS ecosystem with Brad Corona of Vertical Venture Partners.Debriefing/planning for next bootcamp session with the SDSU ZIP Launchpad team Cameron Brock, Erica Charlonis, and Craig Lauer.Into the mountains with Tim Ryan for a retreat to do long term startup ecosystem planning including the next cohorts of Startup 101, Founder Build Day, SD Tech Founder events, physical hub design, and much more to come.Have a great week and keep building! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit risingtidepartners.substack.com/subscribe