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June 30, 2021

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BLOOMBITES

I’ve spent the last few years learning and sharing in tech communities. I’ve looked for other local leaders to share notes and to answer questions like “How do we grow our local talent pools?” Or “How do we find more local capital to invest in local companies?” By looking at how other cities do it, we find unique yet similar approaches that we can try in our ecosystem.  One of those cities is Santa Barbara where they’ve had continued tech success through multiple billion-dollar exits, IPOs and re-investment. As I’ve spent time there over the last few years, we’ve discovered that our tech media approach could benefit the community there too. And so, we’ve launched Fresh Coast Tech with our first Santa Barbara and Central Coast tech newsletter!  A few commonalities between OC and SB are also around the talent that comes from our UCs, companies that have offices in both cities (Google, Procore and Amazon) and companies acquiring startups in both regions (LinkedIn, HP, Mad Engine and Microsoft). Give it a subscribe or forward on to someone in the region that would enjoy keeping up to date. Cheers, Neal

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PODCAST

In this episode of OC CTO's podcast, Sergey Sundukovskiy walks us through his journey from Software Engineer, to CTO to Serial Entrepreneur along with some of the regulatory challenges impacting the mobile telephony industry and its effects on mobile products.

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JOBS SPOTLIGHT

Product Marketing Director Qlik (Irvine) Director, Strategic Planning Weedmaps (Irvine)  Senior Software Engineer, Software-Design and Development SAP (Newport) Sr. Business Development Manager, Business & Network Development UCI Health (Orange)

Partner Manager MLB (Costa Mesa) Lead Engineer, Publishing Platform Dreamhaven (Irvine) Product Marketing Director Veritone (Costa Mesa) UX Designer Netskope (Irvine)

ONLINE EVENTS & DEADLINES

2021 Amazon Web Services Imagine Grant Apply by tonight, June 30   Investor Event by Global Capital Network - 100+ Angel Investors + VC's June 30 National Venture Plan Competition Pismo Ventures, Early Bird Registration by June 30 Making Waves: Entrepreneur Conversations with Bianca Gates July 13

FUNDINGS

Anduril Industries, defence product company, $450 million Series D round with Elad Gil, D1 Capital Partners, Lux Capital Cyvatar.ai, technology-enabled cybersecurity as a service (CSaaS), $9 million Series A round with ATX Venture Partners, Bill Wood Ventures, CORTEC Los Sundays Tequila, tequila and lifestyle brand, $3.5 million Series A round with CircleUp, Ketch Ventures, Room 9 Capton, RFID business control solutions in hospitality industry, $3.3 million Venture round with Quest Ventures Southwest

ACQUISITIONS

Mirion Technologies, radiation testing/monitoring company, merged with GS Acquisition Holdings Corp II and went public (nyse: MIR) in a $2.6 Billion Deal MessageBroadcast, customer-brand communication platform, by Link Mobility for $260 million Crestaff, skilled labor staff company, by RecruitGigs for an undisclosed amount Arbela Technologies, industry-specific Microsoft tool expertise, by Argano for an undisclosed amount Sierra Produce, fresh-fruit product distributor, by GrubMarket for an undisclosed amount

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