Jane Technologies, Inc. announced $21M in Series B funding. Santa Cruz Works talked with Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Socrates Rosenfeld. Jane provides an online cannabis marketplace. Full details at: PRNewswire. SCW caught Socrates just before he boarded a flight to his next business meeting.  

Jane Technologies, Inc., a retail software company that created the first and largest online cannabis marketplace, has announced it has secured $21 million in Series B funding, one of the largest capital raises by a cannabis technology platform.

Check out the story behind the app made at CruzHacks for O'Neill Sea Odyssey to find an easier way for the students to collect data from what they see on the trip and add it to the website. Watch the video below.

Pint is insanely fun and intuitive and with an understanding of the basics, anyone can get going in minutes. Learning to Onewheel is not hard, the board does most of the work for you.

Social media is constantly evolving, making today an exciting time to work in marketing. This can also mean that you sometimes feel as if you're falling behind on your general social media knowledge and education.

In the age of big data, visualization is one of the most powerful tools in your arsenal as an analyst or data enthusiast. It can so drastically affect the way we interpret and understand information that it may seem like magic; when, in fact, it works so well because of the way the brain processes large amounts of information.

Crowd Academy has over 1,300 registered “Cadets” from over 88 countries and celebrates its first cohort of graduates, referred to as “The Digital Disruptors,” for their entrepreneurial spirit and determination.

In August 2011, Lloyd Tabb started writing the first few lines of code for what would eventually become Looker. His co-founder Ben Porterfield joined a few months later to help build out the product.

Santa Cruz County Chamber of Commerce (“SCCC”) and Santa Cruz Works (“SCW”) announced today the formation of a strategic partnership. The objectives include connecting local businesses with skilled job seekers, promotion of local products and services, and a unified voice on key local city issues.  

The Santa Cruz tech scene is growing, attracting more talent from outside the area and giving residents more job opportunities on this side of the hill. It’s an exciting time for our county, but there are, of course, challenges that come with this growth spurt

Payments-as-a-Service leader adds former Tipalti senior executive to spearhead sales and drive another year of explosive growth.

Appdome is totally changing how developrs and non-developers add services to mobile apps. Appdome allows mobile app developers and mobility professionals to add any mobile service to any Android and iOS app in seconds withou having to code a thing.

Cabrillo College today announces that its Robotics Club has won the NASA Swarmathon, a nationwide autonomous robotics competition with the goal of advancing future space exploration.

The Scotts Valley Best Western offers reasonable rates and complimentary breakfasts. It also boasts this unique selling point: It was the first home of Netflix Inc.

At the monthly Company Spotlight Breakfast, we learned about Workbench and their focus on multi-family housing, the perfect solution for our housing supply deficit.

The news that Looker was acquired by Google was just the latest signal that Santa Cruz is, indeed, a tech hotbed. So what does it take to successfully start up in Santa Cruz?

Check out our latest interview with Josh Metz from Fort Ord Reuse Authority talk about Monterey Bay DART Symposium.

I knew the man was a mere youngster when, referring to the “old days in Santa Cruz tech,” he said in an incredulous tone, “Back then, companies didn’t even let people work from home!”

In the tradition of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company – all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph.

Huge Santa Cruz Tech news: Looker Signs Agreement to Join Google Cloud