Past News Articles
News: June 2021
News: May 2021
Astronomers track down fast radio bursts to galaxies’ spiral arms – May 27, 2021Voices of the Valley: Candace Wilson, GreenVenus – May 27, 2021Parallel Flight Technologies: $4M Raised & New Signed LOIs – May 27, 2021Why Joby Aviation wants to focus on the simplicity of things by following the simplest principles and solutions to take an electric aircraft off the ground – May 27, 2021Paystand and Sage Partner to Make B2B Payments Instant, Intuitive, and Cashless for Sage Intacct Users – May 27, 2021G. Craig Vachon to Lead AI Redefined as CEO – May 20, 2021Monterey Conference Center and Immersive Design Studios Debut State-of-the-Art Studio Space for Virtual and Hybrid Events – May 20, 2021Western Growers Selects 13 Innovation Companies for First Harvest Automation Cohort – May 20, 2021Science to the people – May 20, 2021Virtual reality warps your sense of time – May 20, 2021You Don’t Have to Work at Goldman Sachs. I Promise. – May 20, 2021Cruz Foam Secures $1 Million National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Grant – May 19, 2021Parallel Flight Technologies customer pipeline continues to grow (and other milestones) – May 14, 2021Replay: IPO Edge Hosts Air Mobility III with Joby Aviation’s senior leadership – May 13, 2021SupplyShift recognized in 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Supplier Sustainability Applications – May 13, 2021Poly Announces Voyager Focus 2, Next Generation of Poly’s Best-Selling Wireless Headsets – May 13, 2021New tools enable rapid analysis of coronavirus sequences and tracking of variants – May 13, 2021Ultrasensitive antigen test detects SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses – May 13, 2021Q&A: AI for dogs? What’s the Companion story? – May 6, 2021WGCIT: Women Revolutionizing Ag through Tech (Watch Panel) – May 6, 2021Cosmic: Nonprofits, Master the 3 Pillars of Digital Engagement for Maximum Social Impact – May 6, 2021Paystand: Blockchain as the Future of EIPP Software – May 6, 2021Project to read genomes of all 70,000 vertebrate species reports first discoveries – May 6, 2021
News: April 2021
DeepBlaster: When Robotics AI meets a Nerf Blaster – April 28, 2021Steve Blank: A Path to the Minimum Viable Product – April 28, 2021Jen Grant of Appify: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a C-Suite Executive – April 28, 2021UCSC’s Million-COVID-Genome Tree Could be a First – April 28, 2021Kelly Harkins Kincaid: From orchestra pit to executive leadership – April 28, 2021Looker: Qventus helps hospitals plan through COVID-19 with data applications – April 28, 2021Upcoming Panel: Women Revolutionizing Ag through Tech – April 27, 2021Farmers have more mouths to feed. Bring in the robots. – April 27, 2021Salinas Valley Ag Tech Summit promotes importance of workforce education – April 27, 2021James Webb Space Telescope program aims to map the earliest structures of the universe – April 22, 2021Poly’s Next Generation Products Take Home 5 New Awards – April 22, 2021Q&A: Meet the New Head of Entrepreneurial Innovation at UCSC – April 22, 2021Parallel Flight Technology Lifts Off – April 22, 2021How ancient DNA sequencing changed the game – April 22, 2021MBARI announces construction of new state-of-the-art research ship, R/V David Packard – April 22, 2021Here’s why Joby Aviation founder believes he can make his childhood dreams take flight – April 19, 2021Santa Cruz County’s Response, Recovery, and Resilience Website Launches – April 16, 2021MBEP Announces Full Program and Public-Private Partnership Award Recipients for 7th Annual Regional Economic Summit – April 16, 2021SupplyShift: Three Ways Procurement Can Drive Sustainability Through the Supply Chain – April 16, 2021Diverse Voices: How one life experience shapes the next: Mothusi Pahl’s path to success – April 16, 2021Startup Challenge Finale on May 7 is free, online, and open to the public – April 16, 2021Western Growers Launches Global Harvest Automation Initiative – April 16, 2021Cosmic: How an Action Center Led To a White House Cabinet Appointment – April 16, 2021Making the World a Better Place – A Profile of Dave & Shirley Henderson – April 10, 2021Institute for Innovation and Economic Development (iiED) at CSUMB awarded $749K federal grant to support regional entrepreneurs impacted by COVID 19 – April 8, 2021Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project in Monterey County – April 8, 2021Popular Science: Joby’s electric aircraft inches us closer to a future full of flying taxis – April 8, 2021UCSC to launch new support center to advance the university’s innovation, industry engagement – April 6, 2021Marco Rolandi appointed faculty director of UCSC Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development – April 6, 2021SupplyShift partners with Responsible Sourcing Network, launches tool to screen for forced labor risk in cotton supply chains – April 6, 2021Paystand: Why CFOs are Betting on AR Automation for Survival – April 6, 2021Paystand: Software is Eating the Banks – April 6, 2021Unlocking the COVID code – April 6, 2021Poly Hits 30 Million IP Phones Milestone – April 6, 2021NSF funds CSUMB and regional colleges to make more STEM teachers – April 6, 2021
News: March 2021
SVBJ: Jane Tech found a clear sweet spot amid the pandemic – March 26, 2021Dear Rachel and Geraldine: I’m sorry I can’t go to spin class. I just won the Nobel Prize. – March 25, 2021AI Partnership and Cloud Brigade join forces – March 25, 2021Customer story: Cloud Brigade is the trusted caretaker of cloud environment for non-profit MAPS – March 25, 202116 Times Around the Sun and Counting: The Brigades turn 16! – March 25, 2021Building digital solutions that protect the integrity of the cannabis industry – March 25, 2021Central Coast Chat: Former local reporter releasing book on women in ag tech – March 25, 2021Five years after launching, Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology’s startups are making an impact – March 25, 2021CodeStringers Ranks No. 12 on Inc. Magazine’s List of California’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies – March 17, 2021Zero Motorcycles Announces North American Partnership With Viatec Incorporated – March 17, 2021Ontera Expands Leadership Team with Accomplished Diagnostic Industry Executives – March 16, 2021Axios: TinySeed raises $25 million to back more bootstrapped startups – March 16, 2021Middlebury Institute Launches Cyber Collaborative – March 16, 2021Celestial heights and oceanic depths – March 16, 2021Geolitica: a new name, a new focus – March 4, 2021Warning: Read Before Going Back to the Office (by Ryan and Jeremy) – March 4, 2021Jane & Leafly Join Forces: An Interview with Socrates Rosenfeld, CEO of Jane – March 4, 2021Chris Miller: The Cost of Bad Customer Service – March 4, 2021Nine new startup business teams were created during the 2021 Techstars Startup Weekend – March 3, 2021The Eighth Annual Salinas Valley Ag Tech Summit is March 18-19 – March 3, 2021Diverse Voices 2021: Promoting diversity in STEM education and careers – March 3, 2021Watch: Reed Hastings, Netflix cofounder and CEO, gives keynote address at NESTFlight – March 3, 2021
News: February 2021
Perfect Your Pitch, Gain Exposure, and Compete for Prizes at the 12th Annual Startup Challenge Monterey Bay – February 24, 2021Q&A: Einar Vollset talks about TinySeed, early stage SaaS fund – February 24, 2021Dennis Donohue: As AgTech Advances, Building a Talent Pipeline is the Next Big Step – February 24, 2021LinkedIn, Zynga founders to take Joby Aviation public in $6.6B SPAC deal – February 24, 2021Poly announces new Savi 7300 Office Series – February 23, 2021Levered News: Levered Learning Announces the Appointment of Two New Board Members – February 23, 2021Parallel Flight Technologies to Participate in the Federal Aviation Administration’s BEYOND Program – February 23, 2021Oldest DNA sequences reveal how mammoths evolved – February 23, 2021Computer scientist Yang Liu wins $1M grant for research on fairness in AI – February 23, 2021The End of the Buoy Story – February 18, 2021CSUMB earns STEM diversity funding from Genentech Foundation – February 17, 2021Opportunities for Growth During a Crisis: Origins of GetVirtual – February 16, 2021Lookout: UCSC gears up to begin search for COVID-19 variants in Santa Cruz County – February 16, 2021The broken promise that undermines human genome research – February 16, 2021SupplyShift announces new tool to help businesses advance supplier diversity in supply chains – February 16, 2021A small California city aims to break its dependence on PG&E – February 16, 2021Autonomous Weeders Showing Promise in Lettuce Fields – February 16, 2021Poly announced Rove Family, a wireless DECT IP phone system designed for critical and essential workplaces – February 16, 2021LinkedIn, Zynga founders file for new $850M SPAC amid reported merger talks with Joby Aviation, Hippo – February 13, 2021LinkedIn, Zynga founders close to SPAC merger deal with Santa Cruz-based Joby Aviation – February 11, 2021Looker, Google planning plenty of analytics collaborations – February 11, 2021Genentech Foundation grants support UCSC STEM diversity programs – February 11, 2021BBV Founder Spotlight: Cameron Pye — Unnatural Products – February 11, 2021Cosmic How to Increase Supporter and Donor Action Using an Engagement Pyramid – February 11, 2021Joby Aviation Generates First Revenue, Takes Key Step Towards Certifying Aircraft – February 11, 2021Watch: Rodrigo Nieto, Defense Futurist in conversation with Futurist Ian Khan – February 9, 2021Do’s And Don’ts For Successful eLearning Projects – February 9, 2021The Good Kind of Accident: GetVirtual – February 9, 2021Product Update: Manage Quality Assurance with HeavyConnect – February 9, 2021Are Parallel Flight Technologies’ drones being used to start fires? – February 4, 2021The Journey to Zero: How Paystand is Changing B2B Payments – February 4, 2021Jane Technologies and Leafly partner to build a better online cannabis shopping experience – February 4, 2021Solve Cold Cases with DNA from Rootless Hair using Genetic Genealogy – February 4, 2021Developed with work-from-home in mind, Poly announces new squad of personal video solutions – February 4, 2021Noncoding RNA has surprising effects on immune response and sepsis, study finds – February 4, 2021
News: January 2021
3D model reconstructs drone video of washed out Highway 1 south of Big Sur – January 31, 2021Fullpower-AI: How much do we snore? – January 31, 2021Seymour Marine Discovery Center offers new marine science virtual expeditions – January 28, 2021Leila Takayama and Melody Ivory to Keynote Women in Tech Symposium 2021 – January 27, 2021Digital NEST founder Jacob Martinez to serve as external adviser to UCSC chancellor – January 27, 2021The Autonomous Saildrone Surveyor Preps for Its Sea Voyage – January 23, 2021Tech Take-Out offers lendable tech devices that can be checked out – January 22, 2021Grant funding will advance aquaculture research in UCSC’s new state-of-the-art facility – January 22, 2021Searching for Women Leaders in Agtech: One Journalist’s Journey – January 22, 2021Lookout: Santa Cruz County leaders warn of inequitable vaccine distribution – January 22, 2021Air taxi start-up Joby Aviation explores deal to go public – January 22, 2021Q&A: What’s new this year at Techstars Startup Weekend 2021? – January 15, 2021Looker: Solving for new challenges to the housing crisis caused by COVID-19 with data – January 14, 2021A look at Looker in 2021 – January 14, 2021Basic Analytics Explained: The Importance of Deep Marketing Analytics – January 14, 2021Ever wonder why it takes a half-hour or more to travel 2.5 miles on Mission Street? – January 14, 2021UCSC’s Osterbrock Leadership Program goes national – January 14, 2021Poly Appoints Grant Hoffman as Chief Supply Chain Officer – January 14, 2021ModernTRIBE: The Events Calendar Joins the Liquid Web Family – January 8, 2021Toyota Research Institute leases space at the Marina Airport to test self-driving cars – January 8, 2021CITRIS UCSC Tech For Social Good Program funds student teams – January 7, 2021Poly Uncovers Global Hybrid Working Trends in New IDC InfoBrief on Digital Work Transformation – January 6, 2021Techstars Startup Weekend Monterey Bay Returns to CSUMB Feb 5-7, 2021 – January 5, 2021CruzHacks 2021 to be held virtually January 15 to 17 – January 5, 2021Friends of Lick Observatory helps fund wildfire recovery efforts – January 5, 2021Dennis Donohue: 2021: AgTech Shifts to More Result-Oriented Posture – January 5, 2021
