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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™.
Akkio - Bridging the Chasm With Machine Learning
Akkio will present at the Sept 1 New Tech near realtime AI for your data-driven decisions. You gotta see this to believe it!
New Startup: Doorfinder Helps CPGs Expand
New Startup Doorfinder is a market data tool helping consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and distributors improve their strategic decision making.
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.
PitchHub's Video Platform Ignited With an Investment From C.A.R.
PitchHub Inc. announced today that the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) has made a strategic investment into their company.
SCWorks Clinic: Zendesk CX Best Practices & Metrics for Startups
Learn about the best practices for Customer Support (“CX”) learned by Zendesk in a survey of 4,400 early-stage startups from around the world.
Joby Aviation's Epic Day at the NYSE in Video
On August 11th Joby rang the opening bell at the NYSE with huge fanfare. Here is a collection of videos that captured that day.
CyberNINES Protects Contractors From Cyber Attacks
CyberNINES is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that offers high value and affordable CMMC & NIST SP 800-171 assessments, audits and compliance management for small to mid-size manufacturers.
Project Unicorn App Connects Startups With Investors
Project Unicorn develops app to connect entrepreneurs and startups to a community of investors.
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.
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.
Reid Hoffman Sponsors SPAC Deal with Joby Aviation
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and Reinvent Technology Partner co-lead director, discusses his blank check company’s SPAC deal with Joby Aviation.
How to Invest in Joby Aviation
We reached out to Thomas Wynn, owner of Wynn Capital Management, to get a simple, easy-to-understand breakdown of SPACS, how to purchase JOBY stock, and whether or not you should invest.
How a Santa Cruz Startup Uses “Point of Need Tests” to Tackle Neglected Diseases
Local Santa Cruz biotechnology company RealSeq Biosciences develops point-of-need tests to identify neglected diseases and to provide rapid diagnosis for diseases impacting disadvantaged populations.
Mexican-Born Entrepreneur Launches Software Platform
After seeing the struggles his mother endured amid the pandemic, Daniel Hernandez founded The Apptopus to ease the burden for her and other Latino restaurant owners.
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.
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.
Joby Aviation Becomes Publicly Traded Company
First U.S.-based eVTOL company - Joby listed on public market to begin trading on NYSE under ticker “JOBY” on August 11, 2021.
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?
RTP Announces Approval of Proposed Business Combination with Joby
RTP shareholders voted to approve and adopt the previously announced business combination agreement with Joby Aviation

