Joshua Resnick, CEO of Parallel Flight Technologies is looking for "a hardcore Mechanical Engineer who wants to suffer in a startup with us”. If interested send us (info@SantaCruzWorks.org) your contact info and resume and we will send it to the correct channels. Or reach out to Parallel Flight Technologies directly at parallel.aero.

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.

Santa Cruz based financial startup Paystand created a B2B solution that will give corporate customers an end-to-end digital payment platform. JBC, a large scale Japanese and Korean financial services firm recently signed on with Paystand. This is major step for the up-and-coming business and is an important progression toward Paystand’s innovative use of blockchain technology.

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.

This August, Universal Audio partnered with Levi’s®Music Project and music icon Justin Timberlake to outfit the Stax Music Academy in Memphis, Tennessee with a suite of world-class recording equipment.

Thank you as always to all that came out to the December Company Spotlight Breakfast hosted by Capital One & Strahle Legacy Planning Law. And congrats to the raffle winners!

In this episode of Shopify Masters, you’ll hear how David Dennis balances his career at Microsoft while running Ventana Surfboards, the key components of running an impactful sustainable business, and how Instagram drives most of their sales. 

In this the 5th article of our 6 part series about Santa Cruz's unique work & life style benefits, author Julia Sinn interviews community leaders who are focused on foundation: unifying skills from K12 thru upper education, venture capital, affordable homes and office space.

Company Xnor.ai has announced a small energy efficient chip using state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms.

The Remarkable People Podcast will bring you wisdom through interviews with other thought leaders, legends, and iconoclasts such as Dr. Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Woz and many many more…

Design Octaves uses a high tech RIM process to create high-end, low-volume cases for devices big and small.

This week we had the opportunity to sit down and have an interview with Ethan Summers, Anne-Marie Napoli and Alex Lamb from Almost Human Media.

New Santa Cruz company Prometheus Fuels has a unique product for creating gasoline out of thin air. This could be the stop-gap solution we so desperately need.

Santa Cruz company SapientX, a leading supplier of AI powered voice assistant software, announced that Zia now speaks 36 languages and dialects allowing them to serve 5.3 billion potential users.

Thank you to productOps for inviting us to check out The Garage, their new space to build innovative hardware and software. Learn about some of the projects and who they have been working with in the video…

Thank you to everybody who came to the Young Professionals Mixer on November 20th. The event was cosponsored by Santa Cruz Works, MBEP, Think Local First, LINK, and YFIOB and was the first of its kind in the Santa Cruz area.

We are in crisis. The realities in San Francisco and Silicon Valley set a very bleak stage. Where do you call Home?

For locals, and perhaps outsiders, it seems like common knowledge: people want to live in Santa Cruz over Silicon Valley because it’s an objectively wonderful place. Beach, redwoods, limited fog, cheap parking garages.