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SCTB Highlights of 2017
By Sara Isenberg
Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat
December 14, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA
Here’s our annual look back at the top 2017 tech news in the Monterey Bay
region
[Editor’s note: I will edit this list if there are worth additions before January 1.]
It’s time to review the “best of” the year. SCTB generally published 6-10 articles each week. Even with a couple weeks off, that’s 300-500 articles per year. So there’s a lot to review but here are the stories/topics that jump out as the Santa Cruz Tech Beat Highlights of 2017. You might even start with a look back even further at 2013 Highlights, 2014 Highlights, 2015 Highlights, 2016 Highlights.
Amazon, Buoy, EDGE, Inboard, Looker, Pacific Workplaces (aka NextSpace), PayStand, Pearl, Salinas/Agtech, Two Pore Guys, UCSC, and more. Here goes!
- UCSC receives $2.2 million for innovation and entrepreneurship program – January 18, 2017
- Agtech part of Salinas’ economic future – February 2, 2017
- Angels by the Sea announces new investments capping first year of operation – February 15, 2017
- EDGE Mobile Payments Announces Development of the EDGE Card – February 23, 2017
- Beautyrest Launches New Sleeptracker Monitor with Fullpower as Technology Partner – March 22, 2017
- Looker Announces $81.5 Million In Series D Funding Led By CapitalG – March 30, 2017
- Cabrillo Fab Lab: Building Ideas – April 13, 2017
- Two Pore Guys Raises $24.5 Million in Series A Financing – April 25, 2017
- Catbird acquired as BC Partners and Medina Capital announce launch of Cyxtera Technologies in $2.8B transaction – May 2, 2017
- Santa Cruz Fiber to begin construction in downtown Santa Cruz in June – May 23, 2017
- Game Research Lab at CSUMB combines technology and practical research — June 21, 2017
- Pearl Automation shuts down – June 26, 2017
- What You Should Know About Salinas’ Third Annual Forbes Agtech Summit – June 27, 2017
- UCSC launches new data science research center – June 29, 2017
- Now it’s official: Pacific Workplaces Expands Portfolio with NextSpace Acquisition – July 18, 2017
- $300K Keck grant will help prepare CSUMB students for bio sciences professions with Big Data – July 19, 2017
- Philippe Kahn named one of Mossberg’s “Five Most Influential technologists” – August 16, 2017
- NSF awards $1.5 million grant for data science research at UC Santa Cruz – August 24, 2017
- CEO Spotlight: Joe Burton of Plantronics – September 7, 2017
- Buoy’s product release marks a milestone for smart home devices – September 20, 2017
- YaDoggie: Tech Veterans Launch “No Worries Dog Food” Startup – September 20, 2017
- Look who made Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2017 list – September 26, 2017
- Biotech’s rapid growth on Santa Cruz’s Westside – September 26, 2017
- Update from Santa Cruz Accelerates – October 3, 2017
- Startup Sandbox to enhance Santa Cruz’s biotech competitiveness – October 5, 2017
- Match Made in Santa Cruz: Buoy Partners with Inboard on Battery Tech – October 10, 2017
- National news reports Amazon “growing a mysterious office in a small surf town near SF” – October 12, 2017
- Dean Alex Wolf leads growing engineering school in era of technological change – October 18, 2017
- Q&A: Monarch Media Celebrates 20th Anniversary – November 1, 2017
- Inboard Technology announces $8M series A financing – November 16, 2017
- PayStand secures $6M Series A funding – November 16, 2017
- The floodgates open on national press for Buoy – November 21, 2017
- New Cabrillo College Makerspace ready to go public – November 29, 2017
- Q&A: Socrates Rosenfeld on creating the cannabis industry’s first online marketplace – December 5, 2017
- State innovation funds supported hundreds of startups – December 5, 2017
- Joby Aviation presents a bid for Cemex plant in Davenport – December 6, 2017
- EDGE Mobile Payments Acquires Plastc – December 14, 2017
If you think something is missing, please let us know.
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