CyberTech Opens New “Entrepreneur in Residence” Program to 8 Teams

Nest Co-Working Space in San Diego (BVBigelow photo)

Darin Andersen, the busy-bee creator of San Diego’s Cyberhive, iHive, and xHive startup programs, says eight early stage tech companies have joined the co-working space he has been building out in Bankers Hill under a new “Entrepreneur in Residence” program.

Andersen created the program under the auspices of CyberTech, a membership organization he created to provide networking, resources, and programs focused on cybersecurity, Internet of Things, and related technologies.

Earlier this month, the City of San Diego awarded a $40,000 grant to Nest, the 16,000-square-foot co-working space that Andersen founded, to help foster the creation of more startups and jobs in the region.

Under the six-month Entrepreneur in Residence program, startups teams pay a $140 monthly CyberTech membership for the first two months and $250 a month for the remaining four months, Andersen said. Enrolled companies may be focused on near-term goals that range from raising capital to recruiting key technical and business leaders. “Our goal is to get them on their feet from a sustainability standpoint,” Andersen said.

The participating startups are:

—SD3D: Automated 3D manufacturing.

—Secured Universe: Secure Android OS.

—Skylift Global: Heavy-lift drones.

—Sympathetic Innovations: 3D-printed, counter-IED training devices.

—TrueID Security: Biometric security protection.

—Breeze: Ride-sharing app with fuel-efficient cars.

—Object Security: Simplified security management.

—MiPOV: Wearable Internet of Things “techlace” (in stealth).

Author: Bruce V. Bigelow

In Memoriam: Our dear friend Bruce V. Bigelow passed away on June 29, 2018. He was the editor of Xconomy San Diego from 2008 to 2018. Read more about his life and work here. Bruce Bigelow joined Xconomy from the business desk of the San Diego Union-Tribune. He was a member of the team of reporters who were awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for uncovering bribes paid to San Diego Republican Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham in exchange for special legislation earmarks. He also shared a 2006 award for enterprise reporting from the Society of Business Editors and Writers for “In Harm’s Way,” an article about the extraordinary casualty rate among employees working in Iraq for San Diego’s Titan Corp. He has written extensively about the 2002 corporate accounting scandal at software goliath Peregrine Systems. He also was a Gerald Loeb Award finalist and National Headline Award winner for “The Toymaker,” a 14-part chronicle of a San Diego start-up company. He takes special satisfaction, though, that the series was included in the library for nonfiction narrative journalism at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Bigelow graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 1977 with a degree in English Literature and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1979. Before joining the Union-Tribune in 1990, he worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles and The Kansas City Times.