Mr. Tesler, who worked for several leading tech companies, including Xerox, Apple, Amazon and Yahoo, devoted much of his career to the idea of making computers practical, affordable and easy to use.

If you have a clean energy idea and are in California, apply for CalSEED’s grant funding. Early stage entrepreneurs can get $150K on this first round with the possibility of $450k to come! Applications open February 28th.

Author Dean Hovey applies Design Thinking methodology to solve growth issues in Watsonville.

Green Tech was a big hit with presentations from both local companies as well as Gringgo (2 “g”s for “go green”) from Indonesia, Microsoft from Redmond, and more

Justine Haupt never expected that a project she’d been working on for the past three years would suddenly cause her website to crash.

Atmotube detects harmful air conditions and alerts users on their phones. By By detecting harmful gases and volatile organic compounds (VOCs), continuously measuring temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure, Atmotube is democratizing air quality monitors.

Three time international champions Aptos High School is charging up for the 2020 season. You can help!

Author Valerie Moselle helps us understand the power of breath.

An historic moment for Santa Cruz County: Jacob Martinez / Founder and Executive Director of Digital NEST has been chosen as one of five recipients of this year’s The James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.

Jeff Bezos has pledged more money to to fight climate change than any person ever has. The question is, where will it go?

John Dicconson, CEO of TCN moved to the Monterey Bay Area from San Francisco in the year 2000 to join a language services company, immerse in the local business ecosystem and enjoy a healthier work-life balance.

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.

Scotts Valley company WeatherFlow announces TEMPEST: an artificial intelligence-powered weather system for at-home use this spring.

Craig Vachonin In this interview discusses the the last twelve plus years of Santa Cruz Tech and his prediction for what he see to come out of Santa Cruz tech in the next five years.

For its first event of the year, the Santa Cruz Hardware Group has organized a tour at Camp Six Labs, a Santa Cruz-based startup developing a breakthrough approach to cargo pickup and delivery leveraging autonomous cargo drones, which allows them to do it in an almost absolutely silent way.

Today, Google Cloud announced the completion of its acquisition of Looker -- a historic day that begins an exciting journey for Looker, our employees, customers and partners.

One of our team members, Emma McLaren, attended the Startup Grind conference. Here is her op ed on the conference.

20 years ago, startups like Netflix had to move to the Silicon Valley to attract investment. In this decade, the tables have turned.

Consider the definition of the word “balance”: to be equal or correct in proportions which allows someone or something to remain upright and steady. Is it realistic to think a person can apply equal proportions of work, relationships, and self? 

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Santa Cruz Works Company Spotlight Breakfast at Poly with guest speaker, UCSC Chancellor, Cynthia Larive. We love our Santa Cruz tech community!