Thank you to Mayor Martine Watkins for coming to the Santa Cruz Works New Tech: The Impossible Possible event earlier this month.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Santa Cruz Works Company Spotlight Breakfast at Looker. And thank you to Looker of course for hosting us. What a great morning of networking and connecting the Santa Cruz tech community

Doug Harr will present at the November 6th Santa Cruz Works New Tech: Demystifying the Cloud and Big Data. But wait, Halloween is just around the corner. A special Halloween treat for all.

Among countless software tools that claim to make life easier for businesses, only few are both easy to use and deliver concrete results. Hubspot’s CRM, offered with a SCW Partnership at an unprecedented 90% discount, at $400 opposed to $4000, is true to its claims and enables you, a business owner to optimize your processes and grow your business.

SANTA CRUZ, CA - October 17, 2019 - Today Santa Cruz Works announces a new board member: Tonée Picard. Picard is the EVP/Chief Development Officer at Bay Federal Credit Union. She has been involved in the Santa Cruz community for over 30-years, including a long stint in the technology industry. Picard has direct responsibility for the credit union’s strategic planning, information technology, marketing, human resources, and facilities business units.

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.

U.S. antitrust enforcers have started an in-depth review of Google’s $2.6 billion planned acquisition of a data analytics company, a further sign of greater scrutiny on big technology companies, according to people familiar with the situation.

Paystand, the fastest growing commercial payments platform, today announced it has appointed four globally recognized Fintech Pioneers from Fiserv, PayPal, and Visa to its Fintech Advisory Council. The new council comes on the heels of a record-breaking year for Paystand

Musician’s BASS, the startup providing digital tools for musician's careers has gained more and more momentum. As funding pours in and the beta launch date approaches, founder Aliza Hava provides an update.

In 2014, TalentLMS conducted a gamification survey to examine how gamified elements change the state of training. In 2018, our gamification stats focused on productivity, motivation, and gamification for employee engagement. This year, the TalentLMS survey has covered both topics.

Last week, we asked readers if they had knew the backstory on the tragic loss of Bump: a smartphone app that allowed iOS and Android users to exchange virtual business cards by simply bumping their phones together. And we offered a free pass to Startup Grind Global Conference 2020 to the person who had the answer. David Kim rose to the challenge...

There are some facts about Santa Cruz that many folks still find surprising: that the first words spoken from the moon were spoken into Plantronics’ Santa Cruz-built headset; that Felipe Kahn invented the cellphone camera here; that this is a capital of the digital biotech revolution. Read full details about the historic merger…

UC Santa Cruz has received an anonymous gift of $8.5 million to support the Genomics Institute’s pioneering interdisciplinary research. The gift, which will be made in annual installments over the next ten years, establishes the Healthier World Fund for the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute.

On October 11th, Day of the Girl, Girls Who Code will organize the first-ever global digital march, inviting girls around the world to stand up for what matters to them.

Thank you to everyone who came out to The Santa Cruz Works New Tech event this week - The Impossible…Possible featuring Marc Randolph, Mayor Martine Watkins, Shiv Sikand, David Silverglate, Kyle Doerksen and more. We are looking forward to sharing the videos of the event produced by Owl Eye Media but until then here are some pictures from the night.

The Institute for Innovation and Economic Development at Cal State Monterey Bay has just received an $850,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.

Do you remember Bump? It was a great iOS and Android app that allowed users to "bump" their smart phones together to exchange their digital business card. Why carry business cards around if your smartphone can do it for you? Why did Google acquire Bump, and shut it down? Is there an alternative? Tell us why, and one person will win a FREE pass to Startup Grind Global Conference.

UCSC Girls in Engineering announced their 2020 program. 7th- and 8th-grade girls, primarily from low-income families in Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, are invited to attend a full week of hands-on workshops at Baskin Engineering...for free. In these workshops, the girls create their very own robots, imagine themselves as computer scientists and engineers, and explore the careers and educational opportunities available to them in STEM fields. There are 25 students per weeklong cohort. And this is where they could use support.

Startup Sandbox today announced that six members have successfully transitioned from the bioscience incubator to commercial operations as strong, viable startup companies.

When Looker’s customers have a problem, they don’t contact customer support – they contact the Department of Customer Love. And what they get is an experience that lives up to the department’s name.