Santa Cruz Tech in Review – 2013 Highlights

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[Did we miss something? Feel free to send email to santacruztechbeat@gmail.com if you have any  newsworthy additions.]

• OpenCounter Opens (Feb)
• Biggest non-story: Santa Cruz stays connected despite major fiber line cut (Apr)
• Privacy Choice becomes part of AVG (May)
• OpenCounter goes National with Knight grant (June)
• Yardarm Technologies selected by CNBC as one of top 10 innovative small businesses of 2013 (June)
• Motrr starting shipping Galileo to Kickstarter backers (after raising $700,000) (July)
• Sara Isenberg launches Santa Cruz Tech Beat (July)
• MerchantOS acquired by Lightspeed (July)
• Aerial footage of Steamer Lane goes viral (July)
• Xconomy’s trilogy by Wade Rouch showcases the Santa Cruz startup economy (July/Aug)
• NextSpace continues to expand, acquires Chicago Coop (Aug)
• Looker raises $16M (Aug)
• UC Santa Cruz ranked among best colleges for computer science majors (Aug)
• Monarch Media named in Inc. Magazine’s fastest growing list for 3rd year (Sept)
• Brenda and John Romero hired by UCSC to run professional degree programing in games and playable media  (Sept)
• Doug Erickson reinvigorates SC New Tech Meetup with three “Celebrating Tech Innovation in Santa Cruz” meetups (Sept, Oct, Nov)
• Silicon Valley Business Journal insert “Santa Cruz: a vibrant hub of tech innovation” produced by City of Santa Cruz Economic Development Department  [PDF] (Oct)
• Steve Blum keeps Santa Cruz County informed about broadband:
  1. Watsonville moves ahead with with city fiber project (Sept)
  2. County broadband policy initiative becomes a model for California (Oct)
  3. County broadband policy overhaul gets approved to move forward (Nov)
• National Geographic launches new Trails Illustrated map of  Big Basin/Santa Cruz Parks and Preserves (Nov)
• Civinomics holds 3-day Civinomicon (Nov)
• Velvetwire exceeds Kickstarter campaign and launches Powerslayer (Dec)
• South Swell Ventures launches Central Coast Angels (Dec)

Additions and year end summaries. Please send more newsworthy items:

• Cruzio’s Top 10 List for 2013 (Dec)
• Civinomics 2013 timeline infographic (Dec)
• Santa Cruz become the place Silicon Valley wants to be (Dec)
• Santa Cruz Sentinel adopted Tout app for video publishing. Eg: Jondi Gumz’s Tout stream (July)

Sara Isenberg
Producer, editor, curator
Santa Cruz Tech Beat – a news digest for folks who want to know and share what’s up in the Santa Cruz technology community.

Sara Isenberg curates and publishes Santa Cruz Tech Beat for the benefit of the extended business and technology community. When she is not volunteering her time for the tech scene, Sara makes her living by managing software projects, web strategy planning, and providing development team services (including account management, vendor management, strategic partner management, beta project management, referrals to qualified technical team members, and more). Please visit http://saraisenberg.com or contact Sara by email at sara@saraisenberg.com if you have any project management, account management, or Development Team leadership or service needs.

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