📝 Editor's Note
Happy New Year! As teams come back from the holiday break, Orange County tech is already back in motion with events, funding, and new infrastructure taking shape.
🗓️ Upcoming OC tech events
Newport Beach Edition 🚶 LA Tech Community Walk (link)
Wednesday, Jan 14 @ 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Newport Beach Pier
From Startup to Scale: How Founders and Corporate Partners are Driving Orange County’s Tech Ecosystem (link)
Thursday, Jan 15 @ 9:00 AM - 11:00 am
Hangar 244, Irvine
Amplify Summit (3 Days. 300 Founders in DTC/CPG/retail) (link)
Sunday, Jan 18 - Tuesday, Jan 20
VEA Newport Beach
OC CTO Talks: Architecture That Enables AI Innovation (link)
Wednesday, Jan 21 @ 6:00 - 8:00 pm
UCI ANTrepreneur Center
📡 OC Tech News
$37M subsea cable to connect Huntington Beach and Catalina Island (link)
Palmer Luckey’s Erebor Bank won conditional FDIC approval, moving the crypto-, defense-, and tech-focused bank one step closer to launching. (link)
Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, Next-Gen Autonomy Platform, and Deep AI Integration at Inaugural Autonomy & AI Day (link)
Private practice platform Tebra secures $250M to accelerate AI innovation (link)
💡 Did You Know? More OC startups are hosting weekday morning events - signal that founders are optimizing for operators, not just networking crowds.
Till next week,