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Connecting Tech & LifeSci entrepreneurs
w/ Expert Mentor Meetings
A flexible, customized process for entrepreneurs ready to scale their startup and connect with capital.
“The Springboard experience was extremely valuable, particularly in our case where our founders had limited business/operational experience, and no experience with pitching. Without Springboard, we would not be kicking off a seed round with potential investors.”
“Connect and the Springboard process was instrumental in developing a successful business plan and funding pitches.”
Is your Startup Ready?
You have product market fit
You’re ready for institutional funding
(or less than a year away)
You’re past the friends and family funding stage
TECH: Functioning prototype with data
LIFESCI: Preclinical data
— What to Expect —
1
Submit Application
Springboard is a rolling program, apply anytime!
2
Meet Your Champion & Team of Experts
If accepted, you will be paired with a Champion Mentor to help identify and deep dive into your business challenges. Together we’ll recruit a team of experts, specific to your company’s needs.
3
Participate in Your Springboard Panel
Your Springboard Panel will be an honest discussion. You’ll engage with expert advisors who are here to support you and provide counsel on your business priorities to get you to the next level. Our goal is to better prepare you to successfully raise capital and scale.
4
Stay Connected
Become part of the Connect family as a Springboard Alumni. We hope to keep the lines open between us, so we can continue to learn about you, stay updated on your progress and how we can further connect you. Springboard is free, we just ask you stay in touch!
Thank you Springboard Sponsors
Springboard Graduate Companies
Since 2005
$2.09B
Capital Raised
$1.13B
Exit Value
>7000
Jobs Created
Abreos Biosciences
Biologic drugs are life-saving drugs that effectively treat serious illnesses including cancer and autoimmune diseases. However, dosing is usually one-dose-fits-all and the costs are becoming unsustainable. As a result, patients are not getting the most from their treatment. Abreos Biosciences is poised to have a major impact on the delivery of biologic drugs by offering […]
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Advanced Resin Therapeutics
Advanced Resin Therapeutics is a specialty pharmaceutical company that has developed a drug delivery system that promotes topical and transmucosal delivery of medications more quickly and longer than current competitors. 2017 – $1.8M Series 1 round
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Anno (FKA Photosurvey)
Anno (FKA Photosurvey) is a B2B SaaS company that developed a platform for teams to create interactive annotations on photos.
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antsle
Edge Computing and Fog Computing are new trends in the post-cloud era. At antsle, we developed an easy-to-use turnkey solution that moves compute capacity from the datacenters to the edge. Our product, the antsle one, is an on-premise replacement for public cloud solutions like Amazon Web Services or DigitalOcean. Our silent server comes with hardware […]
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Athelytix (FKA S&R Sports)
Athelytix (FKA S&R Sports) created a system for tracking speed, break, trajectory, and deceleration of baseball pitches.
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Beacon Mobile
Beacon Mobile has developed an integrated and comprehensive marketing and sales platform for the car wash industry
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Bixpy
Bixpy creates portable water propulsion systems for snorkelers, divers, kayakers and standup paddle boarders.
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BLKBox Music
BLKBox Music is an app that connects life’s moments through a combination of music, photo, and video.
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Brain Corp
Brain Corp creates core technology for robots. 2020 — $36M Series D 2017 — $114M Series C
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BrainLeap Technologies
BrainLeap Technologies has developed therapeutic games for people with autism/ADHD. 2019- Awarded $750K grant from National Science Foundation
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BuildFire
BuildFire is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables your business to rapidly build mobile apps, save costs, reduce risk, and create engagement with their audience.
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Carlsmed
Carlsmed is the first and only company to use patient outcome data to create personalized surgical plans and personalized implants for spine surgery. Carlsmed provides personalized solutions to decrease surgery time, decrease healthcare cost, and improve patient outcomes.
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Chilldyne
Chilldyne is a technology enables water to be used for direct-to-chip cooling of CPUs in high performance computers and servers.
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Classy
Classy fundraising software gives you the power to raise more money online. Create beautifully branded fundraising pages in minutes. 2019 – Raised $17.5M
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Concert Health
Concert Health helps independent physician practices deliver integrated behavioral health services to their patients. 2019 – Raised $2.2M seed round
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D&P Bioinnovations
D&P Bioinnovations is a regenerative medicine company focused on repairing damaged organs with unique biomaterials and stem cells.
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Design Boardz (FKA Abrijit)
Design Boardz helps consumers find products, fully integrate them into projects, and share with colleagues and customers.
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Doctible
Doctible provides healthcare providers (Doctors, Dentists, Chiropractors, Optometrists) with marketing and automation technology solutions to help them run their business more efficiently. Founded in 2013, the company now provides a full suite of software solutions to address a providers pain points in managing its online reputation, strengthen patient communication, streamline daily operational tasks and grow […]
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DTx Pharma
DTx Pharma is a JLABS company breaking open new therapeutic areas for RNA therapeutics including ophthalmology and neurology. In just 9 months, DTx has developed technology that addresses a critical barrier to widespread use of nucleic acid-based drugs (oligos) finding safe and effective ways to get the drugs into cells outside of the liver. DTx […]
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Electric Car Insider
Electric Car Insider produces educational products to help consumers understand, acquire and use electric vehicles (EV).
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Elimu Informatics (FKA mWorks Health)
Elimu (FKA mWorks Health) distributes custom, knowledge-driven workflows into your EHR and other HIT systems.
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EnduRx Pharmaceuticals
EnduRx Pharmaceuticals produces a drug that targets proteins expressed on the surface of cells in the microenvironment of solid tumors. 2020 – awarded $1.4M DOD grant
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Fabric8Labs
Fabric8Labs is a San Diego based company that is developing the world’s first non-thermal metal 3D printing process. Fabric8Labs patent-pending 3D electrochemical additive manufacturing (ECAM) process eliminates the need for expensive high-power lasers, vacuum chambers or metal powders. Our process lowers the overall cost of ownership of metal 3D printing by 10x while delivering exceptional […]
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Financial Fitness Group
Financial Fitness Group provides interactive financial education to employees.
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Formalloy is a 3D metal printing company which utilizes Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) technology that provides an innovative, cost-effective solution for 3D metal part production, repair and coatings to diverse industries.
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Fragmob
Most independent sales reps lack sales and management experience and are given inadequate training and poor tools, if any. No wonder that most fail. Fragmob creates fun, gamified, powerful mobile apps to make these sales reps more effective. We are already fundamentally changing and improving a global market of 100 million sales reps with well-designed […]
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Fuse Integration
Fuse Integration developed a stuational awareness (SA) tool that combines map-based tracking, communications, and real-time video viewing into a single application designed for first responders, military, and commercial users. 2019 – Awarded $723K SBIR grant
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Gryphon
Gryphon is a cloud managed network protection platform powered by adaptive machine learning targeting the connected home and small businesses with a re-occurring business model. Gryphon combines speed, parental control, and intelligent cyber protection in a simple plug and play mesh router.
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Guru
Guru is the technological bridge between cultural institutions and a 21st-century audience. We make the museum experience interactive, immersive, and compelling for visitors both inside and outside museums, zoos, and aquaria. How do we do this? We tell stories. Through virtual reality, augmented reality, audio, and video we turn the ever-present smartphone into a personal […]
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H2Bid
H2Bid is an E-procurement exchange that more efficiently connects vendors and contractors to water and wastewater utilities.
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HemaFlo Therapeutics
HemaFlo is developing a novel treatment for acute kidney injury (AKI).
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HIA Solutions, Inc. (FKA Enspero Medical)
HIA Solutions, Inc (FKA Enspero Medical) developed a self-priming anesthesia induction device (SPAID) that protects patients from accidental or negligent contamination of the IV anesthesia medications.
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Innovega
Innovega has developed a new generation of patented Contact Lenses that enable wearers to experience rich digital media experiences from stylish, lightweight Glasses.
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Jaan Biotherapeutics
Developing therapeutics that target specific molecules, known as microRNAs (miRs) and regenerate heart muscle to treat heart diseases.
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Librede
Librede is a yeast-based synthetic biology platform enable access to the therapeutic potential of nature. 2020 – Acquired by Lygos
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Molecular Assemblies
Molecular Assemblies, Inc. is a San Diego-based company developing a revolutionary, enzymatic DNA synthesis technology capable of powering new products in industrial synthetic biology, personalized therapeutics, precision diagnostics, and eventually information storage, nanotechnology and more. Inspired by nature, the company’s proprietary DNA synthesis method is designed to produce long, high quality, sequence-specific DNA reliably, affordably […]
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NeuraLace Medical
NeuraLace Medical is a startup medical device company founded in San Diego whose bold mission is to disrupt the chronic pain epidemic.
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NovoMedix
NovoMedix developed a therapeutic to treat fibrotic diseases. 2016: awarded $300K SBIR grant
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One Earth Recycling
One Earth Recycling is dedicated to making recycling as accessible and user-friendly as shopping.
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Planck Aerosystems
Planck Aerosystems created the first autonomous drone that focuses on operating from moving vehicles. 2019 – awarded $200K DHS grant
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Portable Genomics
Portable Genomics provides individuals control of their personal health data in order to facilitate sharing with healthcare providers, payers and life science organizations leading to improved healthcare and smarter health discovery.
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Primo Energy (FKA Primo Wind)
Primo Energy produces alternative energy systems that incorporate wind, solar and batteries for a complete nanogrid operation.
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Puptimize
Puptimize is a dog training app that easily teaches your dog the commands, tricks, skills, and games.
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SciStart
SciStart is an interactive platform that enables scientists to enhance their career options by showcasing their publications, as well as linking them to innovations.
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Shadowbox
Shadowbox is a patented technology platform connecting any two or more web applications without requiring application level API integrations. Initially tackling the $300B healthcare interoperability challenge and specifically the diagnostic lab segment, Shadowbox is disrupting the integration market by fundamentally changing the way systems securely, compliantly, and accurately transmit protected patient data.
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SoloTraveller
SoloTraveller is a social travel app that instantly connects travelers near each other.
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Tailio
Tailio (developed by Pet Wireless) is evolutionary patented technology that creates value to the entire ecosystem: pets, pet owners, veterinarians, pet food, pharma, and insurance companies. Non-invasive, collar-free, ambient in-home pet health monitoring device acting as an early warning system, capable of detecting signs of more than 20 different diseases, for early intervention by veterinarians. […]
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ThinkingNode
ThinkingNode utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) technology to empower human thinking by providing exponential thinking capabilities.
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Transcend Air
Transcend Air designed an aircraft that is three times faster than helicopters, with half the operating costs, and enhanced safety.
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Trefoil
Trefoil is a biotechnology company focused on leveraging its engineered fibroblast growth factor-1 protein (eFGF-1) technology platform to develop first-in-class regenerative pharmacologic treatments for corneal diseases, which are debilitating and cause a significant amount of preventable blindness throughout the world.
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VeniStat
VeniStat produces a phlebotomy chair to meet the needs of the modern healthcare worker.
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Vinty
Vinty is an online marketplace for classic car experiences. 2019- Company was acquired by Ryde
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VirBELA
VirBELA developes a software that fosters effective communication, deep relationships, and a safe environment to take risks. 2018 – acquired by Exp Realty Intl
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Vizer
Vizer is a fitness app that incorporates user rewards and social impact through meal donation. In 2020, they were awarded $500K from Alliance Healthcare Foundation. In 2020, they graduated the Connect Springboard program.
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Water Pigeon
Water Pigeon captures photos of a meter face and runs optical meter reading software to create a numerical reading for the utility.
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