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The Connect Current is your inside look at the people and ideas shaping San Diego’s innovation ecosystem.Produced by Connect, a nonprofit supporting founders and investors for over 40 years, the podcast builds on a legacy of helping high growth companies, including alumni like Cloudbeds, ClickUp, Inhibrx, and NanoCellect Biomedical, grow and scale from San Diego to the global stage.Each episode features relaxed, thoughtful conversations with founders, investors, and community leaders across life science, tech, climate, defense, AI, and more, sharing the stories shaping San Diego innovation.If you’re building, investing, learning, or simply curious about the future of San Diego’s innovation economy, this is your place to stay connected to what’s happening now and what’s next.
Connect hosts The Connect Current, a entrepreneurship show with 17 episodes published.
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Scott Tait to explore how San Diego can better connect national security needs, university research, dual-use startups, capital, and policy into a stronger innovat
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Kris Lichter, CEO of TL Foundation, to explore a different approach to investing in innovation. The conversation dives into how TL Foundation is transforming phila
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Kris Lichter, CEO of TL Foundation, to explore a different approach to investing in innovation. The conversation dives into how TL Foundation is transforming phila
In this episode of The Connect Current, host James Zanewicz sits down with Abubakar "Abu" Jalloh, Site Director of BioLabs San Diego, to explore the infrastructure, community, and support systems that help life science s
In this episode of The Connect Current, host James Zanewicz sits down with Abubakar "Abu" Jalloh, Site Director of BioLabs San Diego, to explore the infrastructure, community, and support systems that help life science s
In this episode of The Connect Current, host James Zanewicz sits down with Gian Luca Araldi, PhD, PharmD, MBA, PMP and Founder/CEO of Avanti Biosciences, to explore the challenge of developing new therapies for fibrotic
In this episode of The Connect Current, host James Zanewicz sits down with Gian Luca Araldi, PhD, PharmD, MBA, PMP and Founder/CEO of Avanti Biosciences, to explore the challenge of developing new therapies for fibrotic
In this episode of The Connect Current, host James Zanewicz sits down with Trevor Laudate, Co-Founder of Ecodrive, to explore how businesses can turn everyday customer actions into measurable environmental impact. Trevor
In this episode of The Connect Current, host James Zanewicz sits down with Trevor Laudate, Co-Founder of Ecodrive, to explore how businesses can turn everyday customer actions into measurable environmental impact. Trevor
In this episode of The Connect Current, host James Zanewicz sits down with Ivana Mikić, PhD, CEO of Sarpeda Inc., to explore how AI is helping researchers unlock more value from the biological imaging tools they already
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Aadeel Akhtar, Founder and CEO of Psyonic, to explore how advanced robotics and human-centered technology are reshaping the future of prosthetics and mobility. The
In this special episode of The Connect Current, Tre Braquet flips the script and interviews Connect CEO James Zanewicz about the vision behind Connect 3.0 and the future of San Diego’s innovation ecosystem. The conversat
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Mike Krenn, Managing Director of Prebys Ventures, to explore what investors are really looking for in founders and early-stage companies. The conversation dives in
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Hala Madanat, Vice President for Research and Innovation at San Diego State University, to explore how universities can play a larger role in helping founders buil
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Will Bright, Founder and CEO of Saferide.ai, to explore how personal experience can shape meaningful innovation. Will shares the journey that led to building a com
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Holly Smithson, CEO of Athena, to explore how leaders are navigating one of the largest workforce transformations in decades. As AI rapidly reshapes how work gets
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Dr. Garrett Smith and Dr. Nick Mourlas of Reef Haven Ventures to unpack what it really takes to move from strong science to a scalable, investable company. The con
In this episode of The Connect Current, we sit down with Rachel Costello to explore the intersection of innovation, execution, and real-world impact. Rachel shares her journey into company building, the insights that sha
In this episode of The Connect Current, host James Zanewicz sits down with Rupak Doshi, Co-founder and CEO of OmniSync, to explore how better systems can accelerate innovation. Rupak shares how OmniSync is helping founde
In this episode of The Connect Current, host James Zanewicz sits down with Debbie Chen, Founder and CEO of Hydrostasis, to explore how nontraditional journeys are shaping the next generation of innovation. Debbie shares
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