This Week in San Diego Tech - June 27, 2025

Listen & subscribe on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and other platforms.Welcome everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News!I’m Neal Bloom from Rising Tide Partners and the Tacos and Tech Podcast.My co-host in this episode is Fred Grier, journalist and author of The Business of San Diego substack. He covers the ins-and-outs of the startup world including breaking news, IPOs, fundraising rounds, and M&A through his newsletter.Before we dive in, we wanted to thank and ask our listeners to help us grow the show, leave a review and share with one other person who should be more plugged in with the SD Tech Scene. Thank you for the support and for helping us build the San Diego Startup Community!June 27Dr Squatch acq again, this time for $2BIPOs - Chime, Coreweave, eToro, Circle doing well and Wealthfront just filed.Quidel acquired LEXNew Insulin resultsFundings:Clearspeed series DFirestorm raised new funds, according to SEC filingLilo of Carlsbad wins a Michelin StarDeloitte Fast 500 nominations openCurated Events List – For full list – check The Social CoyoteJune 27 - Pitch Night at Bermuda ClubJuly 1 - SD Tech Founders with Andy Ballester, GoFundMe and Eyepop AI co-founderJuly 4 - Founders HikeJuly 8 - Afternoon Founders HikeJuly 29 - Dev & Data x CTO Talks: Healthtech Night - link coming soon 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