ACG San Diego Women’s Series: Daring to Be Different

ACG San Diego’s Women’s Series is Tuesday, November 17, 2026, from 5:00 to 7:30 PM at Mintz, 3580 Carmel Mountain Road, Suite 300. The talk is Daring to Be Different: A Founder’s Path from Idea to Public Company, with Sabrina Martucci Johnson, founder, president, and CEO of Daré Bioscience, across from Mintz member Tali M. Tuchin. Networking opens at 5:00. The panel runs about 5:50 to 6:50, then Q&A and a short mix-out. ACG members pay $55; non-members $95. The series is open to all genders.

Johnson founded Daré in 2015 and took it public in 2017 through a business combination rather than a classic IPO. The host page says the company has moved a product from license to FDA approval in under five years and put roughly $200 million into women’s health R&D. Tuchin has spent more than twenty years structuring life-sciences licensing and collaboration deals, including in-house biotech time. ACG San Diego is the middle-market deal chapter; this night is founder and capital talk, not a year-end social.

Founders, investors, and advisors who fund or counsel women’s-health and biotech companies belong in Suite 300. Come with one question on public-market routes, royalty monetization, or when a partnership beats a raise. The December ACG holiday at Hotel Indigo Del Mar is the same chapter’s social night—different price, different ask.

Carmel Mountain Road is a drive from Downtown or Convoy; leave buffer for evening traffic. Bring ID for the Mintz lobby and your ACG confirmation.