Oct 6, 2026 · 22 min · 9 segments
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…
No, but seriously, is there anything else about Reef Haven we haven't asked that we should know before we get to our last Connect Current question?
Did our first close on the fund in December, made our first investment in December of 2025.
The second one we just did was in cancer and better cancer treatment and cancer care that we're really excited about.
So just want to say we're actively investing and we also feel really grateful to have wonderful partners in San Diego and UCSD and SDSU and other groups and Connect, of course.
Love the academic institutions here and our origin story there, and especially Mary Walshock, who is so instrumental as well as several other people in setting us up in a way that I think, much like we have an equally focuses on the culture and sociology about innovation as much as the science and technology.
No, but seriously, is there anything else about Reef Haven we haven't asked that we should know before we get to our last Connect Current question?
Did our first close on the fund in December, made our first investment in December of 2025.
The second one we just did was in cancer and better cancer treatment and cancer care that we're really excited about.
So just want to say we're actively investing and we also feel really grateful to have wonderful partners in San Diego and UCSD and SDSU and other groups and Connect, of course.
Love the academic institutions here and our origin story there, and especially Mary Walshock, who is so instrumental as well as several other people in setting us up in a way that I think, much like we have an equally focuses on the culture and sociology about innovation as much as the science and technology.
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