January 13, 2022
THE FRESH SQUEEZE
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Happy New Year! After a banner year in 2021, it’s exciting what could unfold in 2022. There’s certainly a lot of available funding and exits from IPOs/M&As, which should trickle back into the community. I’ve met a lot of new tech operators in OC that have been enthusiastic about investing in OC and I’m focused on bringing them onboard to Interlock Capital. Shameless plug: we’re raising a fund at Interlock and would love to talk to anyone who may like what we’re doing.

As we start the year, we are thinking about what kinds of additional content and events we may be able to provide to our OC community. I’d love to hear from you. What would be helpful for you this year?

Cheers and let’s make it a great year!
ORIGINAL BREW

Our team of local writers gives a fresh look inside the Orange County tech ecosystem past and present.
In this piece, check out key takeaways and trends from 2021 as a year of remote work to gain insight on how this will continue to shape the way businesses and employees operate in 2022.
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JOBS SPOTLIGHT
Merge Mobile, Inc. (San Clemente)

Zuum Transportation (Irvine)

Synopsys Inc. (Irvine) 

LoanSnap (Costa Mesa)
Twitch (Irvine)

Riot Blockchain, Inc. (Costa Mesa)

Blizzard Entertainment (Irvine) 

Amazon (Irvine) 
EVENTS AND DEADLINES
Pismo Ventures - March 29th
FUNDINGS
AntMoney, embedded investment functionality platform, $20 million Series A from Franklin Templeton Investments, Rx3 Growth Partners, SteelBridge Laboratories, Steelpoint Capital Partners, Walter Cruttenden 
 
TriFlo Cardiovascular, healthcare biotechnology, $11.6 million venture round
 
Amberstone Biosciences, novel immunotherapies, $12 million Series A from Cowin Venture, Sinovation Ventures, Viva Bioinnovator
 
PatientFi, financial services, $10 million venture round 
 
IntelliFlux Controls, process automation software water treatment, $3.9 million venture round 
 
Cameo FX, visual effects and animations, $650K from angel investor Sergii Mashevskyi
 
Pedego Electric Bikes, electric bike manufacturer, undisclosed amount in venture round from Verlinvest
Based on feedback from local CTOs, we helped design Cox Edge to bring low latency cloud services to SoCal.
ACQUISITIONS
Blast, gaming technology, by AntMoney for undisclosed amount 
 
Flavor Infusion, food processing, by Archer Daniels Midland Company for undisclosed amount 
 
TaylorMorse, medical record retrieval, by Lexitas for undisclosed amount 
 
Turtle Rock Studios, online gaming, by Tencent for undisclosed amount 
 
WebJaguar, commerce platform, by QAD for undisclosed amount 
 
MNX Global Logistics, expedited transportation, by Quad-C Management for undisclosed amount 
 
Ideal Fasteners, threaded fasteners and socket caps, by MW Industries for undisclosed amount 
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