Three Procopio clients have been named to Connect’s Class of 2024 Cool Companies; kudos to DeepWater Exploration, MeCo Diagnostics, and WowYow! Connect, a prominent San Diego accelerator, each year collects hundreds of applications from innovative companies, selects the most compelling, and introduces them to over 100 venture capitalists. Since 2015, Cool Companies have raised over $900 million in Series A alone. Procopio is a longtime sponsor of the Cool Companies program.

Let’s meet our outstanding clients:

• DeepWater Exploration (DWE), an underwater robotics company at EvoNexus, is at the forefront of autonomous marine technology, specializing in advanced machine vision solutions. Procopio provides general corporate and financing services for DWE, led by Partner Bill Eigner.
• MeCo Diagnostics is a venture-backed startup developing predictive biomarker tests to match cancer patients to low cost, low toxicity, FDA-approved, repurposed drugs. It is represented by Bill Eigner.
• WowYow is a computer vision AI company with technology that can analyze visual content (video, images, text, etc.) and create valuable metadata, applying this to limitless use cases. This is their second straight year making the Cool Companies list. Procopio Partner Pattric Rawlins provides patent, trademark and technology licensing services.

Procopio actively supports startups in San Diego, Silicon Valley, Scottsdale, and other markets. Our Emerging Growth and Venture Capital attorneys provide legal expertise and counseling in corporate and securities law, angel and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, compensation and benefits, and more.

Since 2012 Procopio has hosted an incubator, LaunchPad, in its Del Mar Heights office, located in the heart of San Diego’s innovation community, and we are in the process of onboarding our 2024 class. Select groups of carefully chosen emerging growth companies in LaunchPad begin the formation, protection of core technology, early funding and growth working side by side with Procopio attorneys focused on understanding their industries and positioning them for growth and success.