The San Diego Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the San Diego program.
After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 18 companies were able to make it through.
Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of San Diego's top startup experts and investors.
And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the San Diego program:
- Boxie - An AI-powered platform that revitalizes outdated educational content, transforming it into personalized, engaging, and interactive learning materials. It empowers educators by saving them over 12 hours a week in lesson preparation.
- Red Line Safety, Inc. - Building advanced, wearable technology for firefighters to monitor their location, environmental conditions, toxic gas exposure, and vital signs in real-time.
- Rely - Providing renters and real estate operators with a centralized platform that simplifies rental data access and verification, reducing fraud, lowering costs, and accelerating leasing through reusable digital rental passports and seamless data integration.
- Vet's Claim - Offering an AI-powered, VA-accredited platform that helps veterans navigate the complex disability claims process by improving accuracy, reducing delays, and increasing approvals, using AI trained on real VA appeals and regulatory data.
- OMNIQUE.corp - Developing a first-of-its-kind, industry-agnostic smart helmet system that integrates hard-tech, AI, AR, and advanced engineering to enhance safety, efficiency, and well-being for workers, service members, and athletes who rely on helmets for life and livelihood.
- ClarityLink - Developping a digital wellness platform that helps individuals and families safely manage supplements, prescriptions, and food routines in one place, while empowering them to contribute anonymized wellness data to research and bridging gaps between natural and conventional healthcare.
- Black Forest Mushrooms - Building the leading brand for psychedelic legalization by self-funding through best-selling functional mushroom products, advancing mental health treatment, sustainable food innovation, and responsible industry growth.
- Kairos AeroTechnologies - Arming U.S. and allied forces with faster, smarter unmanned aerial systems and real-world threat training to counter emerging drone threats, bridging the gap between evolving technologies and defense readiness through innovative systems and service models.
- BidScout.io - Helping small and diverse businesses find and win more corporate and government contracts by combining expert bid scouting with tailored procurement intelligence, empowering equitable access to high-value opportunities.
- RevelFT Inc - A 3D, interactive financial health platform that visualizes, analyzes, and scores consumer economic viability in real-time, empowering individuals to improve their financial futures while helping financial institutions better engage and serve their customers.
- Cyber Sphere Data Inc. - Providing applications to help small businesses encrypt, send, and store confidential data for work groups based on our patented Object Level Encryption™.
- MATR - Helping socially isolated Americans build close friendships through AI-curated, science-backed video conversations that foster deep, meaningful connections faster and more effectively than traditional social platforms.
- HydroNations Inc. - Transforming municipal and industrial waste into valuable advanced materials through proprietary technology, addressing global waste management challenges while fueling next-generation computing and electronics markets.
- Psybr - Building an AI-powered VR/MR therapy platform that leverages machine learning and quantum-inspired technology to deliver faster, life-saving mental health care for veterans where traditional systems fail.
- kinetiV - Providing a Remote Therapy Monitoring (RTM) platform that automates rehab tracking, delivers real-time recovery insights, and enhances patient adherence to improve rehabilitation outcomes.
- Anesthesia Digital Solutions - An anesthesia-centric software platform that improves digital anesthesia charting, enhances MIPS compliance, and increases safety and efficiency for anesthesia providers and patients.
- Anekonnect - A visual diagramming software platform hyperfocused on designing cables and harnesses for subsea ROVs and underwater vehicles, supporting the development of offshore wind farms and the commissioning of offshore energy infrastructure.
- inRG•Design (said: energy by design) - Delivering Flowcast, an AI-enabled productivity app that predicts users' daily energy patterns like a weather forecast, helping individuals - especially those with ADHD - manage tasks more meaningfully by aligning work with natural energy flow instead of rigid to-do lists.
The San Diego 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.
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San Diego Local Directors
We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the San Diego Founder Institute: Daniel Shires (-, -), Mike Sherbakov (General Partner, The Veteran Fund), Ryan Micheletti (Head of Global Operations, Founder Institute). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in San Diego that is conducive to building to great companies.
In addition, the San Diego 2025 program was supported by some of San Diego's top technology organizations, including:
Some of San Diego’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:
In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over $1.85BN.
After Graduation, the new San Diego Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business.
Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.
The next San Diego Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/san-diego.
Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over $1.85BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.
See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates.
