News
UCSC Startup Entrepreneurship Academy offered again this summer
By Nada Miljkovic Crown College Instructor at UCSC Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat April 27, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Reading student evaluations after finishing a class can be a nervous affair, especially for […]
What do Verve, LifeAid, Humble Sea, Conscious, OutSite, CruzFoam, Novatuer, Mountain Sea Adventures have in common?
(Contributed) April 27, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA This month’s Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup has tasty morsels of tech, company culture, overcoming business challenges, and local success. Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup Wed, May […]
WaveClock: The ocean changes in real-time, is that how you’re checking it?
By Craig Jones Inventor, Waveclock Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat April 27, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA “WaveClock marries real-time digital information with old world ocean instrumentation to give you the data you need […]
Yardarm secures top Microsoft exec as CEO
(Contributed) April 26, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Yardarm Technologies, Inc., a Capitola startup, was founded over three years ago by Bob Stewart has Kirsten Kliphouse, a 25 year Microsoft veteran as the company’s new […]
Plastc’s demise creates opportunity for EDGE Mobile Payments
(Contributed) April 27, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA EDGE Mobile Payments Announces Discount to Plastc Pre-Order Customers [Editor’s note: Santa Cruz Tech Beat published EDGE Mobile Payments Announces Development of the EDGE Card (2/23/17) and […]
Calliope goes all-in as Buoy Labs, wins gold at Edison Design Awards
By Keri Waters CEO and Co-founder, Buoy Labs (previously known as Calliope) April 26, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA Big News at Buoy! I’m honored to announce that Buoy — the first complete smart home device for […]
This Is Neat: Billionaire Vinod Khosla Is Betting On A Handheld Diagnostic Test
By Matthew Herper Forbes April 25, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA (Above: Photo of diagnostic device. Source: Two Pore Guys) Vinod Khosla, the billionaire Sun Microsystems founder and venture capitalist, is today leading a $24.5 […]
Two Pore Guys Raises $24.5 Million in Series A Financing
(Source: Business Wire) April 25, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Santa Cruz-based molecular diagnostics tech startup Two Pore Guys was founded by Trevor Morin, Dan Heller, and William Dunbar. Contributed) Investment Led by […]
New AWS big data-related features play well with Looker (and others)
By Sara Isenberg Founder, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief, Santa Cruz Tech Beat April 20, 2017 — Santa Cruz, CA You can now use Amazon Athena to query encrypted data stored in Amazon S3. “Big Data” is changing […]
Cabrillo College Poised to Become a Real “Mover and Maker” for the Region
By John Graulty, Ed. D. Dean of Visual, Applied, and Performing Arts, Cabrillo College Special to Santa Cruz Tech Beat April 20, 2017 — Aptos, CA (Photo above: John Graulty, Dean of Visual, Applied, and […]