This Week in San Diego Tech – Aug 22, 2025

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Welcome everyone to the weekly San Diego Tech News!

I’m Neal Bloom from Rising Tide Partners, building and investing in community.

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.

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Aug 22

Defense Tech Founders Event Recap of autonomous tech and military end-users

New org leaders: Connect - James Z.

Naturally San Diego - Renee Solares

Techstars - Misti Cain

BuyBack Ventures launches

Funding

Srt Therapeutics - $47M

Ceresti $11M

Ilundent - $4M Seed Round

M&A

GroGuru acquired by Goanna Ag

Gatsby acquired Klayvio

Curated Events List – For full list – check The Social Coyote

Defense Tech Build Day - Aug 28

Gaming Gathering Build Day - Sept 2

SD Defense at SoCal Deep Tech - Sept 16