September 9, 2021
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BLOOMBITES
We’ve been building tech communities for quite a few years now and 4 years ago Cox Business stepped up and asked how they could help. At first, like you, I wondered how a cable company could help. 

And then I dove into their company and realized that for 122 years, they’ve been most interested in investing in their communities, from their first newspaper to help connect a city like Dayton, Ohio, to their Techstars and other community sponsorships. 

But I wanted to take it one step further and so we brought their investment and technology leads to SoCal to meet our companies and see where else a big enterprise company could utilize its assets to enable tech companies to scale at the speeds they need to. 

This is where Cox Edge came from. In the summer of 2019, Ron Lev visited SoCal for the first time and asked the question to local CTOs “what could you do with our existing infrastructure?” and boom ‘regional cloud computing’ became a sandbox environment and today is a full blown product suite. 

Since we helped shape this, we’ve got a startup package that your company can access at a discount, so check out Cox Edge and then reply to this email to get a partner code from us.

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JOBS SPOTLIGHT
Smart Circle International (Newport Beach)

Netskope (Irvine)

HashiCorp (Santa Ana)

PwC (Irvine)
Trinet (Irvine)

Western Digital (Irvine)

Hyundai Capital America (Newport Beach)

Zigzy (Tustin)
EVENTS & DEADLINES
OC Startup Council - September 14, 21, 28, and October 5

OCBJ - September 9

Octane - September 17

Octane - September 23

OCBJ - September 28

Pismo Ventures - September 30
FUNDINGS
Spartan Rider, biomimetic automotive radar solutions, $10M Seed round with 8VC, Prime Movers Lab, and Broom Ventures

CoCoPIE, optimized AI models, $6M Series A round with Sequoia Capital China

Compa, talent acquisition deal desk, $3.9M Seed round with Base10 Partners, Crosscut Ventures, and Acadian Ventures

Zen Beverage, recyclable alkaline water bottles, $2M Venture round with an undisclosed list of investors

Gate5, transformative sewage recovery, $1.6M Grant with California Energy Commission

Celestial Therapeutics, innovative disease prevention, $480K Pre-Seed round with an undisclosed list of investors

Clearinghouse CDFI, community development lending service, $400K Venture round with California Bank & Trust

FynCom, blockchain lead generation, $195K Pre-Seed round with GoAhead Ventures

Turion Space, orbital debris removal, undisclosed amount in a Pre-Seed round with FAST - by GETTYLAB

GoDocs, corporate real estate loans, undisclosed amount in Private Equity round with M33 Growth
ACQUISITIONS
Informative Research, mortgage information service provider, by Stewart Title for $192M

Heritage Montessori, youth education provider, by Endeavor Schools for an undisclosed amount

MCG Logistics, spend management services, by TransImpact for an undisclosed amount

CoinLinked, blockchain commerce platform, by Hodl Assets for an undisclosed amount

INCIPIO, consumer electronics & accessories, by Vinci Brands for an undisclosed amount

Alarm Sports Network, fantasy sports and media, by Spotlight Sports Group for an undisclosed amount

Walk Vascular, non-invasive medical devices, by Abbott for an undisclosed amount
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