News: January – December 2018

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News: December 2018

Luna: Moondust Garden by @Funomena for Magic Leap – December 27, 2018
Women of the C-Suite: “It Takes a Team to Fight Burnout” with Looker CMO, Jennifer Grant – December 27, 2018
Innovative Women in Agtech Play Pivotal Role in Salinas Valley – December 20, 2018
Plantronics Cloud Solutions Finish Strong in 2018 for Customers and Partners – December 20, 2018
Techstars Startup Weekend, in partnership with Google for Startups, returns to CSUMB in January – December 20, 2018
Plantronics Hires Former Cisco Exec to Lead Global Systems Team – December 20, 2018
SCTB Highlights of 2018 – December 13, 2018
CruzHacks + Tech4Good = Social Good Partnership – December 13, 2018
3rd Annual Titans of Tech announces speakers for January 17 event – December 13, 2018
Inboard: Finding Portlandia – December 11, 2018
Forbes: Tableau Software Threatened? Rival Growing at 70% Just Raised $103M – December 11, 2018
Professor Lise Getoor will give talk on Responsible Data Science at 53rd Annual Faculty Research Lecture – December 11, 2018
Jane Tech and CanPay partner to bring online payments to customers in the cannabis marketplace – December 11, 2018
Ocean Mist Farms selects Zest Fresh to automate data collection – December 11, 2018
After a dozen years and 600 summer STEM internships, NPS looks back at its impact along the way – December 6, 2018
Looker Closes Series E Financing Round of $103 Million – December 6, 2018
Women on Top in Tech – Suzanne Wouk, CEO and co-founder of SellHound – December 5, 2018
Getting the Most out of Google Ad Grants for Nonprofits – December 4, 2018
‘Going Digital’ Means More Than Just Accepting Credit Cards – December 4, 2018
You Can’t ‘Contract Away’ Supply Chain Problems – December 4, 2018
Cabrillo College launches Sustainable Agriculture Technology degree – December 4, 2018
Urban or rural, the need for broadband speed is the same for all in the Monterey Bay region – December 3, 2018
Drone Hub is growing in Monterey Bay region – December 3, 2018

News: November 2018

Here’s the lineup for December 5 Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup – November 27, 2018
Opinion: An innovative idea for California’s economy: a tech dividend – November 27, 2018
Watch: Adam Savage Builds a Onewheel Electric Skateboard – November 27, 2018
TechCrunch: Inboard opens general availability of its premium electric scooter – November 27, 2018
Case Study: NOVA software platform designed/developed by productOps to increase student success rates – November 27, 2018
Code Naturally Joins Local Schools for Hour of Code – November 27, 2018
Two Pore Guys Receives $2.8M Grant to Develop Sensitive, Low-Cost Molecular Diagnostic Tests for Tuberculosis – November 27, 2018
Plantronics Confirms No Ongoing Discussions with Logitech – November 26, 2018
Plantronics Opens the Door for ITSP Partners with New VVX x50 Series Obi Edition Phones – November 15, 2018
Call for speakers! Two-day celebration of joy, excitement, surprise of computing, coming to Santa Cruz in February. – November 15, 2018
Polycom/Plantronics Releases Streamlined Video Conferencing Strategy – November 14, 2018
Startup Sandbox to honor Founders Circle members – November 13, 2018
Behind The Glider: Parts 1 & 2 – November 13/15, 2018
3D Printed Graphene Aerogel Enhances Supercapacitor Ability – November 13, 2018
Salinas Education Programs Shaping AgTech Innovators of Tomorrow – November 13, 2018
Women: Why aren’t there more of us in the tech industry? – November 11, 2018
MBEP Announces Agenda and Speakers for 4th Annual State of the Region – November 8, 2018
Student-run hackathon at UCSC lies at the intersection of tech and diversity – November 6, 2018
Runner3 – Now with more FLAVORS! – November 6, 2018
We’re making a Bubsy game! No, seriously! – November 6, 2018
Team creates Stumpjumper videogame for Specialized bicycle company – November 6, 2018
X2Engine Releases X2CRM Enterprise Ver 7.0 – November 6, 2018
Local health center raises funds to match $100K challenge grant from Looker CEO – November 3, 2018

News: October 2018

SupplyShift Delivers Mobile Support for Remote Supplier Data Collection – October 31, 2018
PVUSD Preparing to Accelerate Students into Regional Industries through CTE Pathways – October 31, 2018
Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube, UCSC alumna – October 30, 2018
Voice and Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles – October 30, 2018
Paper checks are on the decline in the B2B payments space – October 30, 2018
Steve Blum: California’s net neutrality law won’t take effect in January, if it ever does – October 30, 2018
PayStand Releases SuiteApp Integration To Extend Best-In-Class Payment Functionality Within NetSuite – October 25, 2018
NIH grant funds development of a wayfinding app for the blind – October 25, 2018
Future Motion (Onewheel) Moves into New Headquarters, Adds 60K Square Feet of Room to Grow – October 25, 2018
Four Tech Trends Salinas AgTech Startups are Getting Behind – October 24, 2018
Rivetz: Introducing the Dual Roots of Trust – October 23, 2018
Hartnell Students are Building the Future – October 23, 2018
Visionary tech pioneer Jaron Lanier on “How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It.” – October 23, 2018
Startup Stories — I Heart Jane <3 CEO Socrates Rosenfeld – October 23, 2018
Cruzio and One Wheel/Future Motion – High Tech in Surf City – October 23, 2018
Startup Investment and Community Capital Expo return Oct 30 – October 22, 2018
PayStand Expands Operations to Mexico With New Office – October 18, 2018
3D-printed supercapacitor electrode breaks records in lab tests – October 18, 2018
Looker Pledges 1% – October 16, 2018
Partnership Bolsters Childhood Cancer Research – October 16, 2018
NSF funds UC Santa Cruz development of multifocus structured illumination microscope – October 16, 2018
Q&A: Catelyn Orsini on creating innovative technology for Plantronics – October 16, 2018
SapientX: Voice Enabled Artificial Intelligence for Cars and Consumer Products – October 16, 2018
Monarch Media Wins eLearning Industry Award – October 16, 2018
County of Santa Cruz invites residents to second Broadband Service Forum – October 10, 2018
Looker Unveils Looker 6: The Modern Platform for Data – October 10, 2018
Listen: 10 Year NextSpace Panel Celebration – October 9, 2018
November Tech Meetup to Focus on Women in Tech – October 9, 2018
My Internship Was Not What I Expected – October 9, 2018
Western Growers Center for Innovation and Tech Celebrates Three Years – October 9, 2018
Inboard’s smart new e-scooter is really going places – October 9, 2018
Plantronics Launches New Headsets Addressing the Challenges of Today’s Open Office – October 9, 2018
Showing your work in math and in data – October 4, 2018
Sellhound receives more angel funding from two distinguished Silicon Valley investment groups – October 3, 2018
Santa Cruz Fiber: The Best Connected Mobile Home Park in America
– October 2, 2018
Court gives California three weeks to defend net neutrality law – October 2, 2018
Brown signs SB 822 and establishes Californian net neutrality rules, Trump lawyers hit back – October 2, 2018
ETR awarded ‘CS For All’ NSF Grant – Cabrillo College, Digital NEST, Pajaro Valley Unified School District to Receive Funding – October 2, 2018
Zentrepreneur Symposium Series Launches in Partnership with UC Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Works – October 1, 2018

News: September 2018

Nick Caldwell Joins Looker as Chief Product Officer – September 26, 2018
Inboard: Behind The Flow — Part 3 (video series) – September 25, 2018
RockstarFlipper interviews SellHound CEO – September 25, 2018
Santa Cruz Fiber — What’s Next? – September 25, 2018
Food Origins: Precision Ag Startup Puts Actionable Data into Hands of Growers – September 25, 2018
The Farm of the Future: Agricultural Careers in Energy, Sustainability, and Technology. – September 25, 2018
Plantronics introduces Elara, a new phone station for mobile-first workers – September 25, 2018
Inboard Introduces World’s Most Advanced Electric Scooter – September 20, 2018
Anja Hamilton joins Plantronics as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer – September 20, 2018
NSF funds UCSC study of tech in agriculture – September 20, 2018
Phase 1 of Santa Cruz Fiber Construction Has Been Completed – September 19, 2018
SomaGenics strengthens its IP and technology position in small RNA analysis and biomarker discovery with new patent and publication – September 19, 2018
Why Is Funding a Challenge for Women-Led Agtech Companies? – September 18, 2018
Q&A: Jacob Martinez on building a talent pipeline with NEST Flight – September 18, 2018
Looker Expands International Operations Into Japan – September 18, 2018
Come celebrate NextSpace’s 10 Years of Coworking, Community, and Shenanigans – September 18, 2018
Looker is Named to Forbes 2018 Cloud 100 List for Second Consecutive Year – September 13, 2018
SupplyShift and Verisk Maplecroft Form Strategic Alliance – September 12, 2018
Adyen selects Looker to help transform its business and drive growth – September 12, 2018
Inboard: Behind the Flow – Part 2 (video series) – September 11, 2018
The Importance of Apprenticeships in the New Economy – September 11, 2018
Digital NEST’s New Plan to Link Watsonville, Silicon Valley – September 11, 2018
An ambitious flying taxi startup is setting up shop at the Marina Municipal Airport – September 11, 2018
NSF funds powerful new supercomputer for UCSC researchers – September 11, 2018
SpoonRead Earns 2018 Academics’ Choice Award for Excellence – September 11, 2018
County of Santa Cruz invites residents to a Broadband Service Forum – September 11, 2018
UC Santa Cruz helps address massive data demands from Large Hadron Collider as part of $25 million NSF project – September 6, 2018
Local drone company InspecTools acquired by PrecisionHawk – September 6, 2018
Bob Cagle: The key ingredients of a successful product launch – September 5, 2018
Looker Names Barbara Lawler Chief Privacy and Data Ethics Officer – September 5, 2018
Watch: Global partnership could bring more AG tech to Salinas Valley – September 4, 2018
AT&T, Comcast, Charter backed groups fight California net neutrality with lies and fear – September 4, 2018
Students “veg out” on the physics of music – September 4, 2018

News: August 2018

National Drive Electric Week’s Santa Cruz event is September 8 – August 30, 2018
Fantasy Football: Using Data to Guide your Draft Strategy – August 28, 2018
Central Coast growers support public-private partnership to solve real time problems in agriculture – August 28, 2018
Inboard: Behind the Flow – August 28, 2018
How to Create Community Norms in Your Coworking Space (and Why You Should) – August 28, 2018
Hartnell College receives $1.5M federal funding meant to boost Latinos in STEM fields – August 28, 2018
The Big Santa Cruz Pitch Fest is coming September 19 – August 23, 2018
New IT leader drawn to UCSC campus to improve world – August 23, 2018
Intern story: Finding a home in R&D – August 21, 2018
Intern story: Technology that inspires optimism – August 21, 2018
Watch: SellHound is “game changer for resellers” – August 21, 2018
Edge Mobile Payments announces NFC ring and patent application filing – August 21, 2018
City of Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College SBDC and California Manufacturing Technology Consulting
Partnering to Host Manufacturers Meetup – August 21, 2018
Intern story: When you love computers but you love humans just as much – August 16, 2018
Intern story: My misfit major created a perfect match with my summer internship at Looker – August 16, 2018
CSUMB student falls into amazing summer research program at Carnegie Mellon – August 16, 2018
CSUMB Selected to Host Architecture at Zero Competition in 2019 – August 16, 2018
Empowering the Santa Cruz County Workforce With Apprentice Brigade – August 15, 2018
Joby Aviation backs out of Davenport Cemex plant plans in favor of Marina airport – August 15, 2018
Santa Cruz County Office for Economic Development debuts new website – August 15, 2018
Santa Cruz Tech Beat’s Sara Isenberg Connects the Dots – August 15, 2018
‘I Heart Jane’ Offers Cannabis Ecommerce And ‘Jane Lanes’ – August 12, 2018
Looker announces annual data conference as the company reaches 550 employees and 1,600 customers with 70% YoY revenue growth – August 12, 2018
Why Women-Focused Coworking is on the Rise: a Conversation with Iris Kavanagh – August 12, 2018
Riding Through London On Inboard M1 – August 12, 2018
Salinas Launches Open Data Portal To Share Information and Boost Government Transparency – August 12, 2018
Building an Innovation Hub: The Salinas AgTech Story – August 12, 2018
Five Guys Serves Up Fresh Insights with Looker to Deliver Better Customer Experience – August 12, 2018
Instant Pot teams up with YaDoggie so your pup can eat fresh food – August 12, 2018
Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Jeremy Almond, CEO of PayStand (Part 1) – August 12, 2018
PayStand Integrates with Xero to Optimize B2B Payments – August 12, 2018
Expanded SupplyShift Essentials™ Solutions Delivered – August 12, 2018

News: July 2018

Looker Enhances Data Science Capability with Integration for Google BigQuery ML – July 25, 2018
Water Tech Founder Buoys Santa Cruz Startup Scene – July 25, 2018
Dovetail Genomics: The human genome is far more dynamic, complex, revealing, fascinating than ever imagined – July 24, 2018
Five Years of Local Tech Storytelling: a Conversation with Santa Cruz Tech Beat Founder Sara Isenberg – July 24, 2018
$50M THRIVE Business Park in Salinas aims to be the premier Ag Tech hub in the Western US – July 24, 2018
Looker Receives 2017 Google Cloud Partner Award for Innovative Solution in Data & Analytics for the Second Straight Year – July 24, 2018
Meetup features Cannabis Tech on August 1 – July 24, 2018
PayStand Partners with Commerce.Innovated, Builds Out Blockchain-Based B2B Payments Network – July 19, 2018
Greg’s List Redux (Job hunting? This is for you!) – July 19, 2018
More “Voices of the Valley” from WGCIT in Salinas – July 19, 2018
Comic-Con panel features UCSC games program director Michael John – July 19, 2018
Tailwater: Removing Nitrates Affordably – July 17, 2018
Full Spectrum Cannabis Brand Protection in a Time of (Federal) Prohibition – July 17, 2018
Ten Things You Don’t Know about the Western Growers CIT – July 17, 2018
County of Santa Cruz named 6th-most digital friendly county in the nation – July 12, 2018
Salinas High grad aiming to break world speed record in solar-powered car – July 10, 2018
Code Naturally and Cabrillo partner to produce Girls Code Camp – July 10, 2018
SellHound lands first angel funding, receives warm reception at Silicon Valley debut – July 10, 2018
SpoonRead Turns Reading into School Resources – July 10, 2018
Looker’s Jen Grant: From actress to CMO – July 9, 2018
Plantronics completes $2 billion Polycom acquisition – July 9, 2018
Scenes from Forbes AgTech Summit 2018 – July 2, 2018
Q&A: Augean Robotics wins THRIVE Innovation Award at Forbes Agtech Summit 2018 – July 2, 2018

News: June 2018

Ganaz, GroGuru Wins $500,000 in Seed Funding to Develop Automation to Help Relieve Ag Labor Woes – June 27, 2018
SVG Partners unveils plans for the THRIVE Business Park in Salinas and expanded THRIVE-X University Challenge and Accelerator Program – June 27, 2018
Watch: Doug Erickson inspires students with venture into sailboard hardware supply business – June 26, 2018
How to get your paws on SellHound’s posting app – June 26, 2018
Five UCSC students present futuristic game at IndieCade Showcase – June 26, 2018
Edge Mobile Payments announces the launch of its digital banking and cloud wallet platforms – June 26, 2018
SVG Partners Announce Demo Day for THRIVE IV Accelerator Cohort – June 21, 2018
Corporate-sponsored projects give engineering students valuable experience – June 21, 2018
Listen: Jacob Martinez dishes on building the Digital NEST – June 19, 2018
Taylor Farms Becomes Industry’s First Fresh Food Company Awarded TRUE Platinum Certification For Zero Waste – June 19, 2018
Announcing the Looker User Guide – June 19, 2018
Looker co-founder finds freedom and inspiration on his bike rides – June 19, 2018
Leaves. And Collaborating – June 13, 2018
Having Fun with Serverless – June 12, 2018
Looker Maintains Rank as an Overall Leader in Annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study – June 12, 2018
Speaker lineup announced for 4th annual Forbes AgTech Summit – June 12, 2018
Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom – June 12, 2018
PayStand Expands into Canada to Offer New Domestic Payments Infrastructure – June 12, 2018
Four Tech Startups Chosen to Compete for $250K in Inaugural Ag Automation Competition – June 7, 2018
Hartnell College MakerSpace: Creativity at Work – June 7, 2018
Santa Cruz Tech Beat celebrates FIVE years! – June 7, 2018
‘Soundscaping’: Plantronics offers escape from office noise – June 5, 2018
Inboard: Welcome to The Artist Series – June 5, 2018
Watch: Best Electric Skateboard For Traveling – June 5, 2018
Priority lanes the top priority for big ISPs, when net neutrality ends – June 5, 2018
Genes found only in humans influence brain size – June 5, 2018
Master’s degree approved for UCSC Science Communication Program – June 5, 2018
Santa Cruz Works names interim Executive Director – June 4, 2018

News: May 2018

8 Successful Give-Back Models for Social Enterprises – May 31, 2018
Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology launches ‘Voices of the Valleys’ – May 31, 2018
Why centralized data access is key for your organization becoming ‘GDPR ready’ – May 31, 2018
New model explains what we see when a massive black hole devours a star – May 31, 2018
Scotts Valley’s dfusion Receives $1.3 Million to Develop and Evaluate a Mobile App Promoting Sexual Health for Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men – May 30, 2018
Net neutrality clears California senate on party line vote – May 30, 2018
Should Startups Invest in Patents? – May 29, 2018
PayStand is building technology that strengthens the fight against corruption – May 29, 2018
EDGE closes on acquisition of comprehensive IP portfolio – May 25, 2018
Watch: Clear the Fog — Peggy Dolgenos on Santa Cruz Fiber – May 24, 2018
Cabrillo’s NETLAB+ Data Center Expands its Reach – May 24, 2018
THRIVE IV accelerator cohort announced – May 24, 2018
Looker and Girl Geek X join forces for June 7 event in SF – May 24, 2018
Sammy Showcase features virtual reality and videogames from UCSC game design students – May 24, 2018
Biologist Beth Shapiro selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator – May 23, 2018
Transfer RNA research addresses a blind spot in understanding of human genes – May 22, 2018
SC County broadband survey shows demand for internet service – May 22, 2018
Watch: Suzanne Wouk from SellHound offers her thoughts on TechRaising – May 17, 2018
Cruz Foam Made From Shrimp Shells Could Help Keep Beaches Clean – May 16, 2018
Republicans jump ship to vote yes, but net neutrality is still sinking – May 16, 2018
2nd Annual Get Hired in Santa Cruz ($5 off for SCTB readers if you act fast) – May 16, 2018
With net neutrality a national campaign issue, California lawmakers must carry the flag – May 16, 2018
Helpfully, the FCC posts a guide to nasty network management – May 16, 2018
Preventing plastic’s perils – May 15, 2018
Startups get financial boost: Entrepreneurs pitch products at CSUMB competition – May 15, 2018
The net neutrality doomsday clock is running again – May 11, 2018
Do you know about bizzNEST at Digital NEST? – May 10, 2018
Genomics Institute affiliate recognized for advancing diversity – May 10, 2018
Looker CEO donates $100K to local health center – May 10, 2018
Watch: OneWheel: A must have for every filmmaker – May 10, 2018
Watch: Paystand CEO talks about the disruption of Wall Street, how blockchain is democratizing digital economy – May 10, 2018
LitmusBox advances to final round of venture startup challenge – May 2, 2018
Here are the deets for TechRaising 2018 – May 2, 2018
Using Social Media to Predict Social Unrest – May 1, 2018
Santa Cruz gets more fiber, more gigabit service – May 1, 2018
Should we bring back the Woolly Mammoth? – May 1, 2018
My City My Flow — Inboard in Cape Town, South Africa – May 1, 2018
DogBuddy Unleashes Their Data – May 1, 2018

News: April 2018

Four Middlebury Students Advance to Finals of Startup Challenge – April 26, 2018
How much does temperature affect hitting at AT&T Park? – April 26, 2018
SellHound Launches Game-Changing Online Resale Tool – April 25, 2018
David Haussler to participate in ambitious project to sequence earth’s life – April 24, 2018
Face recognition for galaxies: Artificial intelligence brings new tools to astronomy – April 24, 2018
SomaGenics Announces Upcoming Data Presentations of its Wound Healing Therapeutic Program – April 24, 2018
What’s so special about this year’s Mini Maker Faire? – April 24, 2018
PayStand Announces B2B Payments Integration with SuiteCloud, Achieves ‘Built for NetSuite’ Status – April 24, 2018
Tech Saves America at May’s Tech Meetup – April 19, 2018
Lick Observatory expands evening programs for the public this summer – April 19, 2018
MBEP Announces Full Program and Public-Private Partnership Award Recipients for 4th Annual Regional Economic Summit – April 19, 2018
Genomics Institute receives funding for Human Cell Atlas projects – April 19, 2018
Students Shine at Santa Cruz Code Center – April 18, 2018
Genomics Justice League: Cutting-edge science and technology should be available for all – April 17, 2018
Control theory symposium April 27 features leading academic and industry experts – April 17, 2018
Drones & Ag: AirSpace Integration hosts VTOL fixed-wing UAV demo on April 27 – April 17, 2018
Check out the most popular electric vehicles at Drive Electric event on May 3 – April 17, 2018
The Near-death and Unexpected Reemergence of a Coworking Community – April 12, 2018
Paystand’s Jeremy Almond to Keynote Business Summit – April 12, 2018
Applications Now Open for The Radicle Automation Challenge – April 12, 2018
What do tech companies know about me? Turns out, a lot – April 12, 2018
Developing with immersive simulation — from the origins of life to VR education and back agai – April 11, 2018
Participate in Santa Cruz March for Science on April 21 – April 10, 2018
Community Foundation secures $500K for Landed to help local teachers with home ownership – April 10, 2018
TechRaising Returns! – April 10, 2018
Hacked! Student-organized teen hackathon takes Santa Cruz by storm – April 8, 2018
Cabrillo Robotics Club to Compete Again in Third Annual NASA Swarmathon – April 6, 2018
New ‘Pan-Cancer’ analysis reveals the common roots of different cancers – April 5, 2018
MBEP invites Central Coast residents to take broadband survey – April 5, 2018
Salinas Valley AgTech Summit Kicked Off AgTech Season – April 3, 2018
Launchpad awards $40K to three UCSC technology projects – April 3, 2018
Looker Announces Support for Oracle’s New Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud – April 3, 2018
Plantronics and Polycom: David Buys Goliath – April 3, 2018
A Bag with a Story – April 3, 2018

News: March 2018

Buoy Labs Enters Strategic Relationship with Delta Faucet Company – March 30, 2018
Salinas AgTech summit nets record crowd – March 29, 2018
Drones, tractors and robots: Salinas Valley addresses evolving industry at Ag Tech Summit – March 29, 2018
PhotoBloom AR launches Kickstarter Campaign – March 28, 2018
Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup presents: SellHound, Merge4, MakerDao, SupplyShift, Rivetz – March 28, 2018
3rd annual Micro-Business Summit to be held May 4 – March 28, 2018
Plantronics to buy video conferencing gear maker Polycom for $2 billion – March 28, 2018
Startups Boost Social Good with Tech Shares Initiative – March 27, 2018
Coworking space comes to Monterey – March 27, 2018
Q&A: Suzanne Wouk on what to do with all your STUFF that you no longer need – March 27, 2018
Seismologists introduce new measure of earthquake ruptures – March 22, 2018
Third Time’s The Charm: the Santa Cruz Mini Maker Faire returns yet again – March 21, 2018
More agtech startup news from Salinas agtech accelerator WGCIT – March 21, 2018
Q&A: Lissa Daniels, VP, Demand Generation, Marketing Operations and Analytics, Looker – March 20, 2018
Wraps off Google exec’s secret Hollister flying machine – March 20, 2018
WGCIT resident startup BioLumic raises $5M Series A – March 20, 2018
UC Santa Cruz ranked among top schools for game design – March 20, 2018
MBARI scientist to receive international award for women in science – March 20, 2018
Hartnell to host 5th Annual Salinas Valley Ag Tech Summit – March 15, 2018
Q&A: Justin Laing on the “double win” for this prolific startup junkie and his team – March 13, 2018
Last-mile transport under construction at the end of Route 17 – March 13, 2018
Western Growers’ AgTech Incubator Finds Solutions to Feed America’s Growing Population – March 13, 2018
A $5 million grant will kick-start UCSC Science & Engineering library transformation – March 13, 2018
Women of Data: Interview with Margaret Rosas – March 13, 2018
Resident agtech startups at Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology are making news – March 10, 2018
Conversations with Robots: UCSC’s Marilyn Walker on the Future of AI – March 9, 2018
Data of Women: Education and Literacy Around the World – March 9, 2018
Announcing Women of Data and the Data of Women – March 9, 2018
Modern Tribe shares actions for inclusion on International Women’s Day – March 9, 2018
Santa Cruz Teen Entrepreneur Challenge announces 2nd annual hackathon – March 9, 2018
Cabrillo College Robotics Club is raising money for trip to NASA Swarmathon – March 9, 2018
Community Broadband: Santa Cruz County Moving Beyond Incumbent Inaction – March 1, 2018
Watch: Wheel TALK – The story of Onewheel – March 1, 2018
Robin Hunicke to host Game Developers Choice Awards – March 1, 2018
Looker Included in 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms – March 1, 2018

News: February 2018

Bringing Gender Equity to the Coworking Movement: A Q&A with the Founders of Women Who Cowork – February 27, 2018
10 questions this Looker recruiter asks before hiring leaders – February 27, 2018
Share the data: David Haussler envisions a new future for pediatric cancer – February 27, 2018
From the Top: Hans Heim CEO of Ibis Cycles – February 27, 2018
Boost Biomes Launches With $2.05M Seed Funding to Develop Microbiome-Based Products – February 27, 2018
Buoy announces Chief Evangelist for Water – February 22, 2018
The FCC Could Help Make Good Local Broadband Models Great – February 20, 2018
UCSC tech incubator offers convenient access to Silicon Valley – February 20, 2018
Watch: PayStand CEO Jeremy Almond talks about B2B payments and blockchain – February 20, 2018
If data defines society, how should blockchain redefine data? – February 20, 2018
Jim Brock: The future of NDAs involves bots – February 20, 2018
Watch: CNN segment on Buoy and smart home water devices – February 20, 2018
Joe Madden, Xpansiv CEO, to discuss digital commodities on blockchain at Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency Meetup – February 15, 2018
Q&A with Bonnie Lipscomb, Economic Development Director, City of Santa Cruz – February 15, 2018
CSUMB to hold symposium on women in ag and tech – February 14, 2018
UCSC’s SlugBot team chosen again to compete in Amazon’s Alexa Prize Challenge – February 13, 2018
Two UCSC professors elected to National Academy of Engineering – February 13, 2018
Analytics for All: A Smarter Way to Work with Data
– February 13, 2018
Looker Enhances Self-Service Analytics for Everyday Business Users – February 13, 2018
Ten years, 106 events, and 2120 pizzas later – February 9, 2018
New report outlines benefits of growing tech sector in Santa Cruz County – February 9, 2018
Otters in the “Shark Tank” – February 6, 2018
Three-part series spotlights minority women entrepreneurs in agtech – February 6, 2018
Cross-institutional cohort will participate in Transforming STEM Teaching Faculty Learning Program – February 6, 2018
Scientists report big improvements in HIV vaccine production – February 6, 2018
EDGE on fintech takeaways from CES 2018 – February 6, 2018
Watch: Congrats Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup on your 10 Year Anniversary! – February 6, 2018
Naval Postgraduate School’s Seed Program selects first group of projects for full funding – February 1, 2018
Bloomberg: Air-Taxi Startup Has a Working Prototype and a Fresh $100M – February 1, 2018
Joby Aviation Secures $100M in Series B Funding – February 1, 2018

News: January 2018

CruzHacks 2018: Driving Hackathon Culture in a New Direction – January 31, 2018
AMS Appoints Toby Corey to its Board of Directors – January 30, 2018
NASA begins testing on Joby Aviation-designed cruise motors for all-electric x-plane – January 30, 2018
Breakthrough leads to sequencing of a human genome using a pocket-sized device – January 30, 2018
Santa Cruz Owns Its Brand at Titans of Tech – January 29, 2018
5th Annual UCSC Hackathon Continues to Drive Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship – January 25, 2018
Community Partnership to Provide Free Wifi in Watsonville Plaza – January 24, 2018
Makerspace brings high-tech tools to Cabrillo College – January 24, 2018
Simplifying invention disclosure at UCSC – January 23, 2018
Plantronics introduces its first bluetooth neckband headset with earbuds – January 23, 2018
Western Growers agtech center exceeding expectations – January 23, 2018
Darrin Caddes on Creativity, Soundscaping, and Why He Prefers Santa Cruz over Silicon Valley – January 23, 2018
Paystand named in 35 Companies That Are Dominating The Bitcoin Industry – January 23, 2018
Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary – January 23, 2018
How Startup Weekend Monterey Bay Changed My Life – January 22, 2018
Q&A: Maya Delano reflects on returning to NextSpace after the acquisition by Pacific Workplaces – January 18, 2018
YaDoggie gets a mention on the Today Show – January 17, 2018
Robert Singleton invites tech companies to invest in community engagement – January 17, 2018
7 Reasons Looker Built a New Language for Data – January 16, 2018
The Sit Down: Nielsen Studios – January 16, 2018
CSin3 team awarded ‘Best Paper’ for SIGCSE 2018 – January 16, 2018
From Farms to Incubators? – January 16, 2018
Buoy makes a splash at CES 2018 (I kid you not) – January 14, 2018
In its 5th Year, CruzHacks Continues to Inspire Innovation – January 10, 2018
Buoy, Onewheel, YaDoggie, Plantronics represent at CES – January 10, 2018
Watch: Inboard Technology’s year in review 2017 – January 10, 2018
Santa Cruz techies get to CES the hard, fun way – January 10, 2018
How Salinas went from salad bowl of the world to global agtech hub – January 9, 2018
Code Naturally to open flagship location in downtown Santa Cruz – January 9, 2018
State initiative funds UCSC childhood cancer research with $500K grant – January 9, 2018
Deliveroo Selects Looker to Drive Deeper Business Insights – January 9, 2018
Supermassive black holes control star formation in large galaxies – January 4, 2018
Calling all AgTech Startups for THRIVE Accelerator (deadline Jan 12) – January 3, 2018
Fuzz Stati0n Pivots – January 3, 2018
Sleepless Media Celebrates 15 Years – January 3, 2018
Satellite Deskworks Helps Power the Growing Shared Workspace Industry – January 3, 2018
Q&A: Heather Heads Out – January 3, 2018

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