Announced at the Santa Cruz New Tech on April 5, 2023, this fund is investing in the top early stage, high growth startups founded in Santa Cruz and nearby coastal communities with an emphasis on Planetary Health.

Many student-led innovations never make it out of the lab. A new program at UC Santa Cruz aims to change that by mentoring Ph.D. students in the life sciences on alternative career pathways outside academia: entrepreneurship and venture capital.

Steve Blank weighs in on the dangers of opening Pandora’s AI box. Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately kill us all. This year we’ve invented one more.

AI is a hot topic of discussion these days, with the potential to inspire some and frighten others. To begin, it's important to understand the distinction between Generative AI and Applied AI, as they represent two distinct categories of artificial intelligence.

Rents and mortgages at all time highs. Our monthly New Tech event will kick off with presentations about housing progress and the challenges ahead for Santa Cruz County.

The city of Santa Cruz has announced a water bending new project: an underwater tunnel connecting Santa Cruz and Monterey.

Apple to open new headquarters in Santa Cruz.

Here For You is a centralized platform that allows community members to show their care and support for one another in meaningful ways during life’s hardest moments.

Today the Bank announced it has earned the #6 ranking on the S&P Global Market Intelligence annual rankings of 2022's best performing community banks in the nation with assets under $3 billion.

Purcell (formerly SmartBins) has opened its headquarters and design studio in Santa Cruz. To celebrate, you are invited to their Open House on April 15, 2023.

The Joby Aviation Board of Directors was honored to welcome Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his team to Joby's DC office.

National Institute for Social Media (NISM), the leading social media certification and education organization, announced today it has acquired OMCP, the digital marketing certification body and industry standards association. 

Build AI into your product without hiring a Machine Learning team, and without costly infrastructure. Train your model in five minutes, integrate it in ten, and let Nyckel’s intuitive UI and API do all the heavy lifting.

To address the high cost and energy dependency of language generators like ChatGPT, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jason Eshraghian is using spiking neural networks (SNNs) to power language models.

In his recent post, Alexander L. Wolf / Dean of UCSC Baskin School of Engineering establishes a new directive at UCSC.

Joby Aviation today announced the appointment of Michael Huerta, former Administrator of the United States Federal Aviation Administration, to the Company’s Board of Directors.

We are taking it to the next level at our monthly New Tech. Check it out, and grab your seat!

We invite all Santa Cruz County educators, students, and community members to our Spring ThinkBig event on April 12th. Join us at DigitalNEST in Watsonville and Cruzio Internet in Santa Cruz.

The E-BIKE Act has been reintroduced into Congress, renewing hope that a federal tax credit for e-bike purchases can be passed.

For eVTOL companies, hydrogen technology could offer an alternative energy source to its current battery technology, opening up new markets for regional air mobility or other applications.