AI startups in San Diego

Doug Winter, Ed Calnan, Nasser Barghouti & Fred Xie

Founded 2010 (famously bootstrapped from a San Diego basement), Seismic is the category-leading AI-powered sales-enablement and content-orchestration platform. It raised a $92M Series F led by Permira in 202...

Brandon Tseng, Ryan Tseng, Andrew Reiter

Founded 2015; builds Hivemind, an AI 'pilot' enabling drones/aircraft to fly autonomously in GPS- and comms-denied combat (deployed since 2018) plus the V-BAT VTOL drone. Raised $240M at a $5.3B valuation (M...

Mike Anderson & Ali Behnam

Founded 2008, Tealium is a leading independent Customer Data Platform (CDP) and tag-management vendor. It raised a $96M Series G in 2021 (Georgian, Silver Lake Waterman) at a ~$1.2B valuation and reported ~$...

Adam Harris & Richard Castle

Founded 2012 by San Diego native Adam Harris, Cloudbeds is a global hospitality-management SaaS platform (PMS, channel manager, revenue/AI marketing tools) used by properties in 150+ countries. Backed by Sof...

Eugene Izhikevich, Allen Gruber

Founded 2009 by computational neuroscientist Eugene Izhikevich; incubated with Qualcomm backing (Qualcomm Ventures + SoftBank Vision Fund investors). Its BrainOS autonomy platform powers the world's largest ...

Matt Ellis & Lance Onken

Founded 2013 by ex-CBRE sustainability lead Matt Ellis, Measurabl is the most widely adopted ESG / decarbonization data platform for commercial real estate (1,000+ clients across 90+ countries). Raised a $93...

Suman Kanuganti, Sharon Zhang & Kristie Kaiser

Founded ~2020 by UC San Diego Rady alum Suman Kanuganti (also founder of Aira), Personal AI builds personal/enterprise generative-AI 'memory' models and digital-twin assistants. ~$22M raised including a Dec ...