Pure-play biotech VC spun out of Avalon Ventures in 2022. $135M Fund I. Managing Partners: Jay Lichter, Sandy Madigan, Tighe Reardon, Sergio Duron. Kevin Kinsella = Emeritus Partner. Incubation model with in-house labs. Notable exits: Nerio Therapeutics ($1.3B, Boehringer Ingelheim 2024), Calporta ($576M Merck).

La Jolla-based seed/early VC. $750M+ invested across 11 funds. Life sciences and tech. Founded by Kevin Kinsella. 125+ companies. Notable: Vertex, Synaptics, Vocera, Onyx Pharma. WSJ top biotech VC. [merged from 817]: San Diego's pioneering life sciences + tech VC. Founded 1983 by Kevin Kinsella. $750M+ deployed. Separate Avalon BioVentures fund ($135M, 2022) exclusively for early-stage biotech.

San Diego premier innovation accelerator. Springboard program: startups get mentoring and access to 400+ VC relationships. CEO: Mike Krenn. Founded 1985. Publishes annual SD VC data. Tracks 152+ deals/year in San Diego.

One of few VC firms investing primarily in defense technology. Menlo Park + San Diego offices. GP: Larsen Jensen. $125M fund (Dec 2023). 40+ companies. Deep SBIR expertise — helps portfolio from first SBIR contract through DoD scale. Close ties to Naval Base San Diego, Camp Pendleton, SOFWERX. Notable: Shield AI (early), Firestorm Labs, Kodiak ($50M Army project), Astranis, Solugen.

US Navy facilitation layer connecting startups and small businesses to Navy/Marine Corps operational needs. Not a traditional VC — channels solutions to naval requirements. Tech Bridges: regional network linking Naval Labs, warfare centers, industry, academia. San Diego is a primary hub given Naval Base San Diego (largest in US). Key entry point for maritime, C-UAS, and naval defense tech companie

Corporate VC arm of Qualcomm. US, China, India, Israel, Europe, LatAm, Korea. Managing Directors: Quinn Li, Carlos Kokron. Focus: mobile, wireless, AI, IoT, semiconductor. Notable: Cloudflare, Fitbit, SentinelOne, Zoom, Magic Leap, Airspace, Braincorp, Wiliot.

San Diego multi-stage VC. Founded by Bill Maris (ex-Google Ventures, managed $3B+, led Uber/Nest/Slack/23andMe). Partners: Bill Maris, Andy Harrison, Michael Pellini, Steve Kafka. Notable: Cue Health, CrowdStrike, Coinbase, Relay Therapeutics, Neuralink, Singular Genomics. [merged from 630]: Frontier technology VC founded by Bill Maris (founder of Google Ventures). AI, enterprise software, cybers

UC San Diego's entrepreneurship and technology commercialization hub. Bridges UCSD research to startup formation. Key pipeline for San Diego biotech and deep tech spinouts. Named for UC San Diego Jacobs School connection.