February 3, 2022
THE FRESH SQUEEZE
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Happy February! Some recent local tech news I’ve been watching -

Happy Money, a Tustin, Calif.-based unsecured lending company that partners with credit unions, raised $50 million in Series D funding from Anthemis Group and CMFG Ventures.

Anduril Industries, Irvine-based and a16z-backed, acquired Dive Technologies, a Boston-based autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) startup. Financial terms were not disclosed

Famille C agreed to acquire ILIA Beauty, a Laguna Beach, Calif.-based women’s cosmetics brand, from Silas Capital and Sandbridge Capital. Financial terms were not disclosed. 

Anyone have a connection to ILIA?

And I hear a new fund III and look/feel coming to Operate?? Looking forward to it Carey!

Cheers!
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JOBS SPOTLIGHT
Synopsys, Inc (Irvine)

Ingram Micro Cloud (Irvine)

Anuvu (Santa Ana)

Blizzard Entertainment (Irvine) 
Merge Mobile, Inc. (San Clemente)

Twilio (Irvine) 

Blizzard Entertainment (Irvine)
EVENTS AND DEADLINES
Stanford Angels - February 8th

UCI Beall - February 10th

Octane - February 12th

Octane - February 16th
TiE Socal - February 26th

Octane - March 2nd

Pismo Ventures - March 29th

JTH Strategies - April 7th
FUNDINGS
Happy Money, lending platform, $50M Series D with Anthemis Group and CMFG Ventures

Bluon, Inc., mobile app for HVAC techs, $27.6 million Series B from Ecosystem Integrity Fund, MacKinnon, Bennett & Company, Ferguson Ventures Logo, Superseed Ventures

Data Lake Shore, product driven data science, $1 million from angel investor
ACQUISITIONS
Spidell Publishing, education and research solutions, by CeriFi 

INOVX, plant inspection and maintenance solutions, by Visionaize 

Reilly Financial Advisors, wealth management, by Creative Planning
 
QOS Network Solutions, holistic network solution, by Zayo 

InVibe, voice technology, by THREAD

Form 1-9 Compliance, by First Advantage 

Assault Industries, off-road manufacturer, by SuperATV 

ILIA Beauty, clean beauty, by Famille C
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