SCTB Highlights of 2018

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By Sara Isenberg
Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat

December 13, 2018 — Santa Cruz, CA

Here’s our annual look back at news of the past year

[Note: If you think we missed something important, please let us know.]

SCTB published 6-10 articles each week. Even with a couple weeks off, that’s 300-500 articles per year. Here are the stories/topics that jump out as the Santa Cruz Tech Beat Highlights of 2018.

Want to look back even further? Check out 2013 Highlights, 2014 Highlights, 2015 Highlights, 2016 Highlights, 2017 Highlights.

Top Newsmakers 2018 (in chronological order)

• Joby Aviation Secures $100M in Series B Funding – February 1, 2018
• Ten years, 106 events, and 2120 pizzas later (SCNTM celebrates 10 years)– February 9, 2018
• Buoy Labs Enters Strategic Relationship with Delta Faucet Company – March 30, 2018
• Plantronics and Polycom: David Buys Goliath – April 3, 2018
• New ‘Pan-Cancer’ analysis reveals the common roots of different cancers (April 5, 2018)
• SVG Partners unveils plans for the THRIVE Business Park in Salinas – June 27, 2018
• UC Santa Cruz helps address massive data demands from Large Hadron Collider as part of $25 million NSF project – September 6, 2018
• TechCrunch: Inboard opens general availability of its premium electric scooter – November 27, 2018
• Two Pore Guys Receives $2.8M Grant to Develop Sensitive, Low-Cost Molecular Diagnostic Tests for Tuberculosis – November 27, 2018
• Looker Closes Series E Financing Round of $103 Million – December 6, 2018

Most Viewed 2018 (in descending order)

Admittedly, the articles published earlier in the year have an advantage, along with those that come up high in organic search results.

• Share the data: David Haussler envisions a new future for pediatric cancer (2/27/18)
• How Salinas went from salad bowl of the world to global agtech hub (1/9/18)
• Cabrillo’s NETLAB+ Data Center Expands its Reach (5/24/18)
• Future Motion (Onewheel) Moves into New Headquarters, Adds 60K Square Feet of Room to Grow (10/25/18)
• Q&A: Justin Laing on the “double win” for this prolific startup junkie and his team (3/13/18)
• AMS Appoints Toby Corey to its Board of Directors (1/30/18)
• Q&A: Suzanne Wouk on what to do with all your STUFF that you no longer need (3/27/18)
• SellHound lands first angel funding, receives warm reception at Silicon Valley debut (7/10/18)
• Joby Aviation Secures $100M in Series B Funding (2/1/18)
• Greg’s List Redux (Job hunting? This is for you!) (7/19/18)
• SellHound Launches Game-Changing Online Resale Tool (4/25/18)
• NASA begins testing on Joby Aviation-designed cruise motors for all-electric x-plane (1/30/18)

Editor’s Choice 2018 (in chronological order)

• How Salinas went from salad bowl of the world to global agtech hub – January 9, 2018
• Santa Cruz techies get to CES the hard, fun way – January 10, 2018
• Q&A: Justin Laing on the “double win” for this prolific startup junkie and his team – March 13, 2018
• The Near-death and Unexpected Reemergence of a Coworking Community – April 12, 2018
• Santa Cruz Tech Beat celebrates FIVE years! – June 7, 2018
• Leaves. And Collaborating (TechRaising weekend) – June 13, 2018
• Greg’s List Redux (Job hunting? This is for you!) – July 19, 2018
• Five Years of Local Tech Storytelling: a Conversation with Santa Cruz Tech Beat Founder Sara Isenberg – July 24, 2018
• Santa Cruz Tech Beat’s Sara Isenberg Connects the Dots – August 15, 2018
• CSUMB student falls into amazing summer research program at Carnegie Mellon – August 16, 2018
• Q&A: Catelyn Orsini on creating innovative technology for Plantronics – October 16, 2018
• Women: Why aren’t there more of us in the tech industry? – November 11, 2018

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Tagged agtech, Baskin School of Engineering, Buoy, Cabrillo College, CSUMB, Inboard Technology, Joby Aviation, Looker, NextSpace, Onewheel, Plantronics, Salinas, Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup, SellHound, Two Pore Guys, UC Santa Cruz