New website aimed at promoting tech industry in Santa Cruz
A new website launched Wednesday is hoping to be a hub for science and technology companies and professionals in the Santa Cruz area.
The website, Santa Cruz Works, will include company profiles, jobs, news, resources and events. It’s the brainchild of a group that has come together to try to showcase the growing tech community in Santa Cruz County.
Santa Cruz Works has been established as a nonprofit organization.
“The timing is right for this,” said Bob Cagle, CEO of productOps and president of Santa Cruz Works. “We have seen a tremendous amount of activity among start-ups in Santa Cruz and continued growth of existing science and technology companies here.”
Given the number of people who commute over the hill to Silicon Valley each day, clogging the already narrow Highway 17, Cagle says the group hopes to encourage more people to do their tech business locally.
“We hope this will create a win-win: local talent growing local companies and less commute traffic long-term,” he said.
The initial members of Santa Cruz Works include Looker, Five3 Genomics, productOps, South Swell Ventures, UCSC, City of Santa Cruz, PredPol, PayStand, Narrative Technologies, NextSpace, Imprivata, FileOpen, Tuul, Seebright and Central Coast Angels.
In addition to company members, both UC Santa Cruz and the city of Santa Cruz joined as founding board members to make Santa Cruz Works a true public/private partnership.
