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For the week of January 13, 2023, here’s what we’re reading:
- Qualcomm tech to enable texts to anyone, anytime
- Illumina, Nashville Biosciences partners with Amgen
- San Diego startup XILO raises additional $4M
- Miracosta College, TOOTRiS first in country to offer childcare benefit
- UC San Diego part of $50.5M effort to improve speed of computers
- South 8 Technologies and Tyfast receive $6M federal grants for battery innovation
- Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm, Sempra and other locals make Just 100 list
…and here are some events and opportunities:
- January 24 – San Diego Regional EDC
Need Talent? Employer Working Group Informational Meeting - February 1 – San Diego Regional EDC
Open House & Economic Forecast - January 18 – County of San Diego, USD, Workforce Partnership
39th Economic Roundtable - January 23 deadline – GO-Biz
Apply: California Competes Tax Credit - January 31 – San Diego Business Journal
Economic Trends 2023, moderated by EDC’s Mark Cafferty
Case Study: Access Trax turns $10K into export growth with MetroConnect
With increasing global interest in its portable accessibility products, San Diego woman-owned business Access Trax needed help finding economic incentives to expand into foreign markets. Learn how it leveraged the World Trade Center San Diego export accelerator MetroConnect and all of its accompanying resources to access international customers, enjoying its highest grossing year.