📝 Editor's Note

We’ve all heard the stories of Bitcoin being lost on a long-ago-forgotten hard drive. This week we have a happy Bitcoin-hard-drive-story right here in OC, plus robots in the ocean, a $2B AI company moving into Irvine, and, an OC Super Bowl connection!

🗓️ Upcoming OC tech events

  • 4th Annual Artificial Intelligence Business Summit (link)

    • Tuesday, Feb 3 @ 8:30 am - 1:00 pm

    • Garden Grove Community Meeting Center, Garden Grove

  • Sunstone Stage Connects - Global Innovation Institute, in Partnership with Nasdaq Center (link)

    • Friday, Feb 6 @ 2:00 - 4:00 pm

    • Register for Address, Irvine

  • Tech Link Up - After Hours (link)

    • Wednesday, Feb 11 @ 6:00 - 8:00 pm

    • Hangar 24, Irvine

🚗 Worth the drive

  • Startup Cafe: High Five Energy Founders with Amos Stern ($500M exit to Google) (link)

    • Wednesday, Feb 4 @ 8:45 - 10:30 am

    • The KINN, Venice

  • Engineering Happy Hour: Autonomous Ocean Sensing with Andrenam (link)

    • Wednesday, Feb 4 @ 5:30 - 7:00 pm

    • New English Brewing, San Diego

  • The LA Grind: LA Startup Community Hike (link)

    • Saturday, Feb 7 @ 8:00 - 9:30 am

    • Runyon Canyon, Hollywood

📡 OC Tech News

  • Computer Clinic Irvine Recovers $75,000 in Bitcoin from Failed External Drive (link)

  • $2b-valuation FieldAI lands in Irvine, boosting city’s tech stature (link)

  • Irvine’s Lantronix expands into defense tech with AI-enabled edge security deal (link)

💡 Some fun OC news to end on: San Clemente High star Sam Darnold will be leading the Seattle Seahawks in next weekend’s Super Bowl. Thank you for reading! If you liked this week’s edition, please forward to a colleague.

Until next week,

Taylor Trusty @ Tech:949

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