Recording: SC Works New Tech 01SEP2021

Great event! Entire event recording above. Separate presentation recordings below.

Rosemary Menard - Santa Cruz’s Water Director

Rosemary Menard gave a brief overview of the current water supply situation and actions being pursued to address Santa Cruz’s long standing water supply reliability issues. Topics covered include the work the Water Department is doing on how climate change is affecting water supply reliability and how the various water supply augmentation options that are under review. Rosemary is also Interim City Manager.

Seeds Renewables / William Wiseman

Seeds is building the Climate Fintech app for retail investors. With Seeds every time you use your credit card you’re investing your spare change into profitable & sustainable assets. Fighting climate change has never been easier! Save the world and earn money at the same time, what's a better deal than that?

RealSeq Biosciences / Sergio Barberan

Originally from Mexico City, Sergio & team have developed a RNA "point-of-need" testing platform for realtime analysis of outbreaks. Read about it at Santa Cruz Startup Tackles Neglected Diseases.

DoorFinder / Chris Duval

With this new application, businesses can discover new retail markets and target better distribution of their products. Beverage companies love it!

Project Unicorn / Estaban Alvarado

A social app for early stage startups to get discovered by scouts, investors, and other founders anywhere in the world.

Akkio / Jonathan Reilly

Near realtime AI with your data-driven decisions. You gotta see this to believe it!

Waygate / Dan Redmon

XRay tech to inspect batteries in smartphones to eVTOLs. Full story here: All Roads Lead to Santa Cruz.