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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Fall 2021 Event- Design The Life You Want!

In this free workshop, Dave Evans will give you tools to navigate your life and career. One of Stanford’s most wildly popular courses isn’t computer science — it’s something much more important: Designing Your Life.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

The Let's Green California Initiative

The Climate Crisis is upon us. It's not something coming in the distant future, or even in the near future, is it right here and now... and it's only going to get worse unless we act now. Here is how.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

LifeAID Raises $20M in Series C

LifeAID had to shut the door on VCs who were clamoring to invest into LifeAID. The initial Series C was set at $15M, but quickly had to expand to $20M.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Onewheel: DIRT

Where is the limit of what's possible? We'll never know until we seek it out. DIRT started with an untouched property in Northern California, a few sketches of ambitious features and the dream of pushing the sport of Onewheel forward.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Is it a Bird? A Plane? A Drone? Or Super Joby...

On rare occasion, Santa Cruz residents have noticed an object in the night sky flying south at low altitude. The general consensus is that it must be a drone because a conventional aircraft would be much louder and obnoxious. Could it be a Joby test flight?

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Malina Long Malina Long

All Roads Lead to Santa Cruz

We welcome Daniel Redmond, his family, Waygate to the Santa Cruz community. Learn about his journey and the services that Waygate provides to the largest companies in the world.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Student Vaccination Drive Sponsored by SC Tech Exchange

The Santa Cruz County Office of Education has partnered with the Santa Cruz Public Health Department and Santa Cruz Tech Exchange to host several student vaccination clinics at locations across the county over the next two weeks.

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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Parallel Flight Technologies Award Phase 2 Grant

Parallel Flight Technologies (“PFT”) has been awarded a Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the USDA. The $650,000 grant was awarded to PFT and Drone Amplified, the developer of the IGNIS prescribed fire system, to support further development of a large-scale UAS for prescribed fire.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Joby Opens Washington DC Office

Joby announced it was opening a new office in Washington, DC to support the collaborative work it is doing with the aviation community and policymakers to bring quiet, zero-emissions aviation to life.

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