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Happy September! Lots of great news and events in this latest issue of the newsletter. A great trend worth spotlighting is the new early stage capital coming to light. From local cyber tech company
OCTANe
accelerator raising funds, and TCA OC creating their first early stage fund, this is great momentum for the local startup community.
I also got a chance to meet a local serial entrepreneur
Jim Roberson
and hear about his story of building and selling DrawLoop, which is still based in Irvine post-sale. These kinds of wins are great for moving the ecosystem flywheel forward. Build a great company, have an exit, invest and help with more local companies. Thanks Jim!
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ORANGE COUNTY TECH ECOSYSTEM NEWS
Huntington Beach-based Rocket Lab
launches
satellites for USAF, French startup
Irvine's Biogennix
gets
OK from FDW for bone graft product Agilon
Albert Chow
joins
Irvine accelerator Cie to lead stealth startup
Irvine-based Ingram Micro to
distribute Microsoft's VR headset HoloLens 2
Blockchain BTM
searches
for partners for bitcoin ATMs
UBIX
onboards
tech industry veteran Cleve Adams as new CEO
CSUF grad
reaches
special needs community with mobile app
Newport Beach's Titan HST
adds
John Venturo to Board of Advisors
Syntiant Corp's chips will
power Amazon's Alexa products
Irvine's Skyworks to
provide wifi tech for Facebook's Oculus Quest
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ACQUISITIONS
Symantec
acquired
by Broadcom for $10.7B
Newport Beach's Pacific Life to
sell
aviation unit to Tokyo Century Corp for $3B
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DEALS
Costa Mesa's Happy Money
raises
$70M in Series D funding round
Lake Forest-based InMode
grosses
$70M in IPO
Newport Beach's L Squared Capital Partners invests $60M in aerospace
CrowdStrike
launches
$20M fund for early stage investments
Laguna Niguel's Fuel50
raises
$14M in Series B round
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Sr. Product Marketing Manager,
Amazon
(Irvine)
Director of Business Development,
Sanmina
(Costa Mesa)
Simulation Engineer,
Saratech
(Mission Viejo)
Senior Software Engineer,
iBASEt
(Lake Forest)
Product Owner/Project Manager,
Iteris
(Santa Ana)
Product Manager - Email Platform,
Twilio
(Irvine)
Marketing Creative Project Manager,
Rivian
(Irvine)
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What is meaningful about Business + Social Impact? @ CSUF Startup Incubator,
September 18
Launch Your Business with Kickstarter @ Real Office Centers,
September 19
OC Startup & Accelerator Ecosystem Workshop @ WeWork Irvine,
October 2
Investor Pitch Event @ Pelican Hill,
October 3
Orange County Timmy Awards @ Irvine Improv Comedy Club,
October 22
Investor Reverse Pitch and Startup Pitch @ K&L Gates,
October 24
OC StartupDay VC and Angel Investor Experience @ Hangar 244,
November 14
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