San Diego IS Better.
Discovering the Technology, Talent, & Lifestyle behind America’s Finest City
Discovering the Technology, Talent, & Lifestyle behind America’s Finest City
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Meet Southern California’s top technologists, Fortune 500s, and hot, growing startups.
See why the brightest software engineers are relocating their careers (and lives) – for the better.
But we’re not just building pretty apps… this is the change-the-world type of innovation.
San Diego leads the world in biotechnology, clean technology, sports innovation, defense technology and telecommunications. Other areas also experiencing rapid growth include, cybersecurity, the Internet of Things (IoT) and social innovation. Specific areas of stand-out expertise include genomics, solar and biofuel technologies, wireless communications, unmanned aerial vehicles and mobile health.
San Diego is #1 in lowest turnover rate in Tech and Scientific R&D. San Diego tops other entrepreneurial cities in its ability to provide hardworking entrepreneurs an environment in which they can thrive personally and professionally. Our perfect climate, beautiful beaches and lively city culture fuel our entrepreneurs’ creativity and foster holistic wellness, enabling innovators to achieve the balance they need in order to do extraordinary things.
San Diego consistently registers in the top 5 nationally for amount of venture capital dollars invested. More than one billion dollars annually flow into San Diego, across its wide variety of companies in software, telecom, consumer digital health, and life sciences industries. Just a short flight from Silicon Valley makes the region exceptionally attractive to a broad base of tech investors.
San Diego’s world-class universities and research centers foster a talented workforce, attract the brightest academics and produce research that serves as the foundation for numerous paradigm-shifting, life-saving technologies.
A distinguishing competitive advantage for San Diego lies in its close proximity to Mexico. A strong Cali-Baja economic partnership enables the fusion of the two country’s strengths, combining the top-tier San Diego engineering talent with the hardware prototyping and manufacturing capabilities of Baja.
“San Diego is the rich, fertile soil tech startups need to flourish—setting the course for others to follow suit. It makes sense across the business, and we’re happy to call San Diego ‘home.’”
— Andrew Gazdecki, CEO of Bizness Apps