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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Santa Cruz Climate Action Plan

Tiffany Wise-West, Sustainability and Climate Action Manager for the City of Santa Cruz, shares an overview on the city's Climate Action Plan.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Ask ChatGPT About Santa Cruz

There has been a lot of commotion recently about OpenAI’s tool ChatGPT. We decided to test ChatGPT on how much it knows about the history of the Santa Cruz startup ecosystem.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

2022 Best Tech Startups in Santa Cruz

The Tech Tribune has compiled the very best tech startups in Santa Cruz. List factored in revenue potential, leadership team, brand/product traction, and competitive landscape.

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Adrian Dolatschko Adrian Dolatschko

CruzHacks 2021 - Join Now!

CruzHacks brings together a community of students and professionals to design solutions for real world problems, with the inclusion of tech.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Young Kitesurfer Built $3.2B Startup

We recently learned that Melanie Perkins - the founder & CEO of Canva - is a kitesurfer. Melanie is now one of the highest-valued, woman-led unicorn companies in the world.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

$1.3 Million 2020 Drako GTE - Jay Leno’s Garage

If you have been following Santa Cruz Works for the last few months you know we are huge Drako Motors fans, including fans of the co fonder Shiv Sikand. So, you can understand our excitement when the Drako GTE was just featured on Jay Leno’s Garage.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Chris Miller Launches Santa Cruz DeepRacer Meetup Group

The AWS DeepRacer platform brilliantly made Machine Learning approachable by gamifying the learning process. DeepRacer is a 1/18th scale autonomous racing car with an onboard computer, camera, and a growing list of sensors such as Lidar and stereoscopic vision.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

The 2019 State of Startups by First Round

Welcome to the fifth edition of State of Startups. What started as an experiment in 2015 has since become a treasured tradition at First Round. It's now the industry's largest dataset on what it’s like to run a startup with 3,600+submissions and 190,000+ data points.

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