Past News Articles
News: April 2021
Santa Cruz County’s Response, Recovery, and Resilience Website Launches – April 16, 2021
MBEP Announces Full Program and Public-Private Partnership Award Recipients for 7th Annual Regional Economic Summit – April 16, 2021
SupplyShift: Three Ways Procurement Can Drive Sustainability Through the Supply Chain – April 16, 2021
Diverse Voices: How one life experience shapes the next: Mothusi Pahl’s path to success – April 16, 2021
Startup Challenge Finale on May 7 is free, online, and open to the public – April 16, 2021
Western Growers Launches Global Harvest Automation Initiative – April 16, 2021
Cosmic: How an Action Center Led To a White House Cabinet Appointment – April 16, 2021
Making the World a Better Place – A Profile of Dave & Shirley Henderson – April 10, 2021
Institute for Innovation and Economic Development (iiED) at CSUMB awarded $749K federal grant to support regional entrepreneurs impacted by COVID 19 – April 8, 2021
Apple to build battery-based solar energy storage project in Monterey County – April 8, 2021
Popular Science: Joby’s electric aircraft inches us closer to a future full of flying taxis – April 8, 2021
UCSC to launch new support center to advance the university’s innovation, industry engagement – April 6, 2021
Marco Rolandi appointed faculty director of UCSC Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Development – April 6, 2021
SupplyShift partners with Responsible Sourcing Network, launches tool to screen for forced labor risk in cotton supply chains – April 6, 2021
Paystand: Why CFOs are Betting on AR Automation for Survival – April 6, 2021
Paystand: Software is Eating the Banks – April 6, 2021
Unlocking the COVID code – April 6, 2021
Poly Hits 30 Million IP Phones Milestone – April 6, 2021
NSF 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, 2021
Dear Rachel and Geraldine: I’m sorry I can’t go to spin class. I just won the Nobel Prize. – March 25, 2021
AI Partnership and Cloud Brigade join forces – March 25, 2021
Customer story: Cloud Brigade is the trusted caretaker of cloud environment for non-profit MAPS – March 25, 2021
16 Times Around the Sun and Counting: The Brigades turn 16! – March 25, 2021
Building digital solutions that protect the integrity of the cannabis industry – March 25, 2021
Central Coast Chat: Former local reporter releasing book on women in ag tech – March 25, 2021
Five years after launching, Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology’s startups are making an impact – March 25, 2021
CodeStringers Ranks No. 12 on Inc. Magazine’s List of California’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies – March 17, 2021
Zero Motorcycles Announces North American Partnership With Viatec Incorporated – March 17, 2021
Ontera Expands Leadership Team with Accomplished Diagnostic Industry Executives – March 16, 2021
Axios: TinySeed raises $25 million to back more bootstrapped startups – March 16, 2021
Middlebury Institute Launches Cyber Collaborative – March 16, 2021
Celestial heights and oceanic depths – March 16, 2021
Geolitica: a new name, a new focus – March 4, 2021
Warning: Read Before Going Back to the Office (by Ryan and Jeremy) – March 4, 2021
Jane & Leafly Join Forces: An Interview with Socrates Rosenfeld, CEO of Jane – March 4, 2021
Chris Miller: The Cost of Bad Customer Service – March 4, 2021
Nine new startup business teams were created during the 2021 Techstars Startup Weekend – March 3, 2021
The Eighth Annual Salinas Valley Ag Tech Summit is March 18-19 – March 3, 2021
Diverse Voices 2021: Promoting diversity in STEM education and careers – March 3, 2021
Watch: 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, 2021
Q&A: Einar Vollset talks about TinySeed, early stage SaaS fund – February 24, 2021
Dennis Donohue: As AgTech Advances, Building a Talent Pipeline is the Next Big Step – February 24, 2021
LinkedIn, Zynga founders to take Joby Aviation public in $6.6B SPAC deal – February 24, 2021
Poly announces new Savi 7300 Office Series – February 23, 2021
Levered News: Levered Learning Announces the Appointment of Two New Board Members – February 23, 2021
Parallel Flight Technologies to Participate in the Federal Aviation Administration’s BEYOND Program – February 23, 2021
Oldest DNA sequences reveal how mammoths evolved – February 23, 2021
Computer scientist Yang Liu wins $1M grant for research on fairness in AI – February 23, 2021
The End of the Buoy Story – February 18, 2021
CSUMB earns STEM diversity funding from Genentech Foundation – February 17, 2021
Opportunities for Growth During a Crisis: Origins of GetVirtual – February 16, 2021
Lookout: UCSC gears up to begin search for COVID-19 variants in Santa Cruz County – February 16, 2021
The broken promise that undermines human genome research – February 16, 2021
SupplyShift announces new tool to help businesses advance supplier diversity in supply chains – February 16, 2021
A small California city aims to break its dependence on PG&E – February 16, 2021
Autonomous Weeders Showing Promise in Lettuce Fields – February 16, 2021
Poly announced Rove Family, a wireless DECT IP phone system designed for critical and essential workplaces – February 16, 2021
LinkedIn, Zynga founders file for new $850M SPAC amid reported merger talks with Joby Aviation, Hippo – February 13, 2021
LinkedIn, Zynga founders close to SPAC merger deal with Santa Cruz-based Joby Aviation – February 11, 2021
Looker, Google planning plenty of analytics collaborations – February 11, 2021
Genentech Foundation grants support UCSC STEM diversity programs – February 11, 2021
BBV Founder Spotlight: Cameron Pye — Unnatural Products – February 11, 2021
Cosmic How to Increase Supporter and Donor Action Using an Engagement Pyramid – February 11, 2021
Joby Aviation Generates First Revenue, Takes Key Step Towards Certifying Aircraft – February 11, 2021
Watch: Rodrigo Nieto, Defense Futurist in conversation with Futurist Ian Khan – February 9, 2021
Do’s And Don’ts For Successful eLearning Projects – February 9, 2021
The Good Kind of Accident: GetVirtual – February 9, 2021
Product Update: Manage Quality Assurance with HeavyConnect – February 9, 2021
Are Parallel Flight Technologies’ drones being used to start fires? – February 4, 2021
The Journey to Zero: How Paystand is Changing B2B Payments – February 4, 2021
Jane Technologies and Leafly partner to build a better online cannabis shopping experience – February 4, 2021
Solve Cold Cases with DNA from Rootless Hair using Genetic Genealogy – February 4, 2021
Developed with work-from-home in mind, Poly announces new squad of personal video solutions – February 4, 2021
Noncoding 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, 2021
Fullpower-AI: How much do we snore? – January 31, 2021
Seymour Marine Discovery Center offers new marine science virtual expeditions – January 28, 2021
Leila Takayama and Melody Ivory to Keynote Women in Tech Symposium 2021 – January 27, 2021
Digital NEST founder Jacob Martinez to serve as external adviser to UCSC chancellor – January 27, 2021
The Autonomous Saildrone Surveyor Preps for Its Sea Voyage – January 23, 2021
Tech Take-Out offers lendable tech devices that can be checked out – January 22, 2021
Grant funding will advance aquaculture research in UCSC’s new state-of-the-art facility – January 22, 2021
Searching for Women Leaders in Agtech: One Journalist’s Journey – January 22, 2021
Lookout: Santa Cruz County leaders warn of inequitable vaccine distribution – January 22, 2021
Air taxi start-up Joby Aviation explores deal to go public – January 22, 2021
Q&A: What’s new this year at Techstars Startup Weekend 2021? – January 15, 2021
Looker: Solving for new challenges to the housing crisis caused by COVID-19 with data – January 14, 2021
A look at Looker in 2021 – January 14, 2021
Basic Analytics Explained: The Importance of Deep Marketing Analytics – January 14, 2021
Ever wonder why it takes a half-hour or more to travel 2.5 miles on Mission Street? – January 14, 2021
UCSC’s Osterbrock Leadership Program goes national – January 14, 2021
Poly Appoints Grant Hoffman as Chief Supply Chain Officer – January 14, 2021
ModernTRIBE: The Events Calendar Joins the Liquid Web Family – January 8, 2021
Toyota Research Institute leases space at the Marina Airport to test self-driving cars – January 8, 2021
CITRIS UCSC Tech For Social Good Program funds student teams – January 7, 2021
Poly Uncovers Global Hybrid Working Trends in New IDC InfoBrief on Digital Work Transformation – January 6, 2021
Techstars Startup Weekend Monterey Bay Returns to CSUMB Feb 5-7, 2021 – January 5, 2021
CruzHacks 2021 to be held virtually January 15 to 17 – January 5, 2021
Friends of Lick Observatory helps fund wildfire recovery efforts – January 5, 2021
Dennis Donohue: 2021: AgTech Shifts to More Result-Oriented Posture – January 5, 2021