March 2020 New Tech - It's a Wrap!

Another amazing Santa Cruz Works New Tech is in the Books. With a diverse range of presenters, partners, and sponsors, Santa Cruz’s grassroots entrepreneurship is growing! From breathing “tech” with Valerie Moselle, to local startups, and student’s CruzHacks projects, the event embodied the value of community in business. Even in turbulent economic times, technologists united by their passion for innovation exchanged ideas and raised the bar for the positive impact of a vibrant tech community.

Entire presentations at: Santa Cruz Works New Tech March 4, 2020

Check out the pictures, videos, and companies below.

This month’s event featured:

  • Author Valerie Moselle: Business owner of Luma Yoga and steward of yoga, breath, and somatic movement shared a limited-time only promotion.

  • Legends of Rec: Changing the Game with digital score keeping for recreational basketball leagues.

    • Looking for an advisor to help scale the business to the next level.

  • Tech Futures: Tech Futures Group (TFG) is a Small Business Development Center (SBDC) program focusing exclusively on advising qualified technology clients located in the NorCal SBDC network coverage area. 

  • SapientX: Adding intelligent voice to your products with an A.I. powered software, allowing you to own your customer and brand experience.

  • Pixel Scientific: Providing custom digital displays, both standard and custom-sized, for a variety of industries and applications.

    • Looking for funding to help take advantage of a great market opportunity.

Cruz Hacks 2020: We selected some of our favorite winning projects from this year's largest hackathon on the central coast. Each team will have 3 minutes to present:

  1. TaylorChef - winners in 5 categories, this app uses AI to find the healthiest meals for you

  2. Dropp - a peer-to-peer environmentally friendly option for ground shipping service

  3. SuppCheck - an app that analyzes the ingredients that goes into a product, and displays back a more elaborate information about each ingredient.

  4. BigBen - our personal favorite by a team of middle-schoolers: a financial website aimed at teaching children how to be financially literate.

  5. Transparency - UCSC Data Sciences' Transparency Project seeks to bring clarity to the United States political process through interactive data visualizations.

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Matthew Swinnerton