Get ready for an exhilarating event on June 1: Launchpad 2022. 15 teams will be competing in the UCSC Pitch Competition for $40,000 in cash prizes. 20+ companies will exhibit and offer 400+ jobs.

In this excerpt, Lloyd Tabb weighs in on Measure D. We will showcase the opinions of other technologist on this vital issue.

We were saddened to read the Emerging Tech Brew article “Before layoffs hit Google-owned Looker, workers unknowingly trained their replacements”.

For the second year in a row, a Santa Cruz tech company made the top 10 globally funded companies. And 2021 is just getting off the ground.

The second Ride Out the Wave concert was a success beyond our wildest hopes. Over 6,000 of you heard Keith Greeninger play as the sun set. Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County, Looker, Amazon Santa Cruz, and MBEP donated to a match fund

On Friday, April 24 we kick off another matching Gift Card campaign with Keith Greeninger

After an exciting weekend of collaboration and innovation, CruzHacks 2020 was a great success. Revealing the positive power of tech, diverse and passionate individuals mobilized their coding skills to solve real problems. 

Take a look at how quickly you can internally embed analytics with Looker.

On October 2, Marc Randolph (1st CEO of Netflix) came to our Santa Cruz Works New Tech: The Impossible Possible event to talk about his new book - That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea. This fireside chat was hosted by Drew Myer from Amazon.

There’s a scene early in Marc Randolph’s new book, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea, that takes place at Lulu Carpenters at the top of Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz. Randolph has been pitching his future partner, Reed Hastings, on a slew of business ideas. This has been happening for months while the two men commute over Highway 17

Today Santa Cruz Works announces two new board members and a set of new officers charged with making it faster and easier for local businesses and talent to connect with the tech community. Since merging with the Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup in July, Santa Cruz Works now…