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EvoNexus, UC San Diego Team On FinTech Efforts

San Diego- and Orange County-based startup incubator EvoNexus and the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Management announced this morning that the two are in a new partnership, aimed at creating a new generation of FinTech startups. According to the two, the partnership will help students and alums of UCSD Rady, by creating an "entrepreneurial path" for them into the EvoNexus FinTech Incubator. EvoNexus recently announced its new fintech startup efforts, backed by Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Franklin Templeton (FT). Financial details of the link between EvoNexus and UCSD were not announced. EvoNexus says it is looking for fintech startups in the areas of artificial intelligence/machine learning, bank/wealth/payment technology, capital markets technology, cybersecurity, blockchain, mobile payments, P2P lending, digital cash, InsurTech, RegTech, data science and predictive behavior analytics.