Activity Ally is a new Santa Cruz startup helping parents find and book kids’ activities in one place. It aims to replace frantic searching, outdated websites, and blurry flyers with a simple, local hub for families.

Tempest has partnered with Atlantic Packaging and Cruz Foam to create a compostable and recyclable protection system.

Davenport’s idle Cemex plant has scarred a stunning stretch of coast for decades. A new proposal would clean it up and turn it into a town center with services and housing, testing whether California can actually build.

The underlying reality of the Santa Cruz Branch Line corridor has not changed—while the RTC’s available choices finally have.

Santa Cruz-based Fortuna Tech Labs is building regulated, AI-driven infrastructure that helps institutions and high-volume traders access digital assets without the usual compliance and operational chaos. Their unified stack streamlines KYC/AML, fiat rails, liquidity, and onboarding.

Climatize continues to build momentum with strategic team additions, expanding AI capabilities, and strong platform performance to start the year.

Executive teams are invited to A.I. + Me, a curated Santa Cruz retreat (Feb 24-27) exploring human leadership in the age of AI through candid dialogue, coastal reflection, and guided facilitation by Steve Fortunato and Sasha Strauss.

More than 420 business leaders united to urge Congress to sustain National Science Foundation funding, helping avert deep proposed cuts.

When people hear “Catalyst,” they fixate on the grants. Fair. More than $200,000 in unrestricted funding can keep an early-stage team alive long enough to build something real. But the bigger payoff is what usually takes founders years to earn: credibility, coaching, and a national stage that puts your solution in front of the people who shape policy and the wireless ecosystem.

New nonprofit continues a 33-year legacy of technical assistance, workforce development, and operational excellence across the state

Tech for Social Good supports cross-disciplinary student projects and events aiming to address significant social challenges with technology-based solutions.

Musk, after folding xAI into SpaceX, is pitching “data centers in space”: satellite-based compute powered by solar energy to dodge Earth’s grid and politics. It’s alluring, messy, and launch-heavy: ~580 car-years of CO2 per Falcon Heavy launch.

Interested in learning about the latest scientific research and innovations? Check out UC Santa Cruz’s Science in the Neighborhood series!

The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Designing Your Life return with a groundbreaking guide to transforming your daily routine into one brimming with joy, purpose, and meaning.: How to Live a Meaningful Life

The City of Santa Cruz and Santa Cruz Sister Cities Committee is forming an adult delegation to attend the three-day global Waves of Change Forum in Biarritz, France, June 1-3, 2026. As sister cities, Santa Cruz and Biarritz have much in common, in particular their desire to remain sustainable and resilient coastal towns. 

Community pressure paid off: the Murray Street Bridge moves toward a two-way automated signal. A petition helped common sense win, proving local engagement can change outcomes. More green lights ahead.

Thank you to all who joined us last night for the 2025 Titans Awards! We include individual videos of each Titan, and a smattering of photos.

Tech workers are speaking out after deadly ICE actions in Minneapolis, urging companies to end ties with immigration enforcement. Hundreds have signed an open letter calling on CEOs to cancel ICE contracts.

Most people instinctively avoid conflict. We've been conditioned to see disagreement as inherently negative, something to smooth over or sidestep entirely. But this aversion comes at a cost.