Annual event rescheduled to February 3-5. Co-founder Mark Adams will speak at opening ceremonies. We interview Tony Ma / Co-President of Cruz Hacks 2023. He gives us a sneak preview of the upcoming largest hackathon on the central coast CruzHacks.

We are very excited to announce our second New Tech event of the year. We have a stellar line up of companies ranging from women’s health to new financial management apps and much more.

Surfer's Path Event Series will be donating a portion of proceeds to the Storm and Flood Disaster Fund.

WeatherFlow-Tempest is back on StartEngine and hopes to raise a second successful campaign.

MERGE4 Releases Collaboration with Photographer, Grant Brittain and Founder of Santa Cruz Bicycles, Rob Roskopp.

Santa Cruz Accelerates startup, Wonderfil, creator of a package-at-purchase platform for liquid and cream products, has been selected as a finalist for the Westly Prize.

Did you miss our first New Tech event of the year? Check out the recordings here!

Santa Cruz County Office of Education is moving from a traditional science fair model to a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) EXPO in order to advance equitable access to inquiry-based learning.

Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to California businesses and residents as a result of President Biden’s major disaster declaration.

A little more than 100 people braved the rain and flooding to attend the first Santa Cruz Works New Tech of 2023. Eight companies presented their truly inspirational journeys, their visions for the year, and open job positions.

See See Motor Coffee's Thor Drake teamed up with fellow Oregonian & renowned footwear designer Tinker Hatfield for a custom Zero SR/F.

In this interview and video, we learn about the powerful new changes to the Innovation Within platform. Whether you are a startup or Enterprise company, this will be worth your time.

Lt. Gen. (ret) Scott Howell, former Commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), has been appointed to Joby Aviation's Advisory Board.

Not long after Immergo Labs completed the 4th cohort of our accelerator, we asked our partner StartEngine to open the investment doors. As of today, Immergo has raised a whopping $170,357.

We interview Tony Ma / Co-President of Cruz Hacks 2023. He gives us a sneak preview of the upcoming largest hackathon on the central coast CruzHacks.

We have re-posted excerpts from three (3) interesting articles about startup funding in 2022 and 2023. Yes, it will be more difficult to raise funds in 2023. But it is also an opportunity for startups to focus on customer acquisition, build their valuation, and court merger opportunities. We have good reason to believe from past downturns that hardship drives serious entrepreneurs and innovation.

At Santa Cruz Works (“SCWorks”), one of our New Year’s resolutions was to create an energetic new board of directors. The formula we used to select our board included has five (5) values we deemed essential for our community’s vibrant tech ecosystem.

SupplyShift's annual event has been announced for Feb 2023! Tune in to this series of discussions throughout the month focused on trending sustainabile procurement topics.

In 2022, we focused on three key goals: certifying our aircraft, scaling our manufacturing, and preparing for operations.

There has been a lot of commotion recently about OpenAI’s tool ChatGPT. We decided to test ChatGPT on how much it knows about the history of the Santa Cruz startup ecosystem.