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Doug Erickson Doug Erickson

Recording: SCWorks Flash Tour at HitchFire

Did you miss this event? Watch the recording. From the founders of Tepui, the leader in roof top tents, comes HitchFire Grills, creator of the world’s first purpose built hitch-mounted grill daring you to Grill Where No One Has Grilled Before™.

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Matthew Swinnerton Matthew Swinnerton

Jane Technologies Raises $100M

Jane Technologies is announcing a $100 million Series C financing round, bringing the total amount raised since its founding in 2015 to $130 million.

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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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