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Purcell Annouces Q2 Updates
Smart dispenser technology company, Purcell, shares quarter 2 updates.
City of Santa Cruz Welcomes Community Feedback on Climate Action Plan 2030
Share your feedback on the Climate Action Plan with the City of Santa Cruz.
Cabrillo College Robotics Club Wins First Place In World MATE ROV Competition
Cabrillo College today announced that its Robotics Club won first place in the MATE ROV Competition, a worldwide, underwater robotics competition held in Long Beach, California.
Joint Study Between Stanford and Fullpower-AI Shows How Bed-partners Impact Sleep Quality
Fullpower-AI Announces New Sleep Research at the Rome Sleep Congress 2022, in collaboration with Dr. Kushida of Stanford Sleep Medicine.
California's Budget Includes $60m+ In Funding for Central Coast
Last Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $308 billion state budget that provides direct tax refunds for 23 million Californians and $60m will be for the Central Coast.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Cheers Enactment of Senate Bill 54, the CA Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act
Monterey Bay Aquarium commends the California legislature and Governor Newsom for enacting Senate Bill 54, the California Plastic Pollution Producer Responsibility Act.
RealSeq Biosciences Selected to Participate in the BioTools Innovator Accelerator Program
BioTools Innovator Announces top 14 Life Sciences companies selected for 2022 Cohort.
How Countercurrent Turns Trash Into Treasure
Art transcends language, literacy, age, and background, and when done well, it can elicit emotional responses and critical thought.
Scoot Science Update - SeaState Forecasting Now Live at 26 Cermaq Sites
Scoot Science, the forerunner in ocean analytics, announces Cermaq Canada is the first company to unlock the full power of its new forecasting tools in its proprietary SaaS platform SeaState.
UC Santa Cruz Receives ~$6M NSF grant for cyber-physical systems project
With the support of a nearly $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers at UC Santa Cruz will lead a five year, multi-institutional cyber-physical systems focused project.
Drako Motors Unveils the All-Electric 2,000 HP Super SUV, the Dragon
Drako Motors is adding a new EV to its burgeoning lineup. Three years after the launch of the all-electric GTE, a limited-edition hypercar that could hit 206 mph, the California-based marque has returned.
SCC Bank Now Offers Business Asset-Based Lending
Santa Cruz County Bank is now offering Asset-Based Lending, a financing solution which provides working capital for technology, innovation and emerging growth companies.
Santa Cruz Works Collaborates With StartEngine to Support Startups
Santa Cruz Works is excited to announce the collaboration with StartEngine as part of its mission to help businesses raise capital from their customers, friends, and adventurous investors.
Santa Cruz Companies Pivot to Remote Employees
62% of new hires in the US work remotely. Santa Cruz tech companies are bucking that trend.
Joby Aviation and Monterey Bay DART Build Training Program
Monterey Bay Drone, Automation & Robotics Technology (DART) Initiative Receives $1.5M Research & Development Grant from James Irvine Foundation to support ongoing work advancing new pathways to high road jobs in the Monterey Bay/Salinas Valley region.
A Mini Cooper Turns Into a Zero SR/S on 4 Wheels
The creativity and ingenuity that comes out of Santa Cruz is just electrifying!! The CTO of Zero Motorcycles, Abe Askenazi, turned a Mini Cooper into a Zero SR/S on 4 wheels.
UCSC Researchers Developing Self-healing, Biological and Engineered Reef-mimicking Structures
UCSC scientists are part of a DARPA-funded team to develop innovative solutions for coral reef restoration in Florida and the Caribbean to protect coastal infrastructure.
Netflix Co-Founder Helps Direct Startups Amid Tech Turmoil
Longtime Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is renowned for building a video streaming service that has transformed entertainment, but it probably wouldn’t have happened if not for his friendship with serial entrepreneur Marc Randolph.
POLY and HP Inc. Merger Approved by Stockholders
Poly and HP inc. merger approved by stockholders.
The Team Behind a Tree of 10 Million Covid Sequences
COVID-19 sequences from around the world are assembled by UCSC researchers into a phylogenetic tree that shows the evolutionary history of the virus.