Santa Cruz
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February 7, 2018
Cruz Control
Stan Parola
Vince Tuzzi
Gary Cunningham
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2018 SCNT MeetUp Staff
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Tom
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LeBaron
Stacey
Mark
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10 Years of SCNT MeetUp
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Highlights 2008-2018
2008 - SC Police Community Room
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Highlights 2008
NextSpace, Phil Libin / Evernote
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Highlights 2009
Dream Inn
Green Tech
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Cruzio coworking
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Highlights 2013
SC Sentinel
Santa Cruz Tech Beat
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Highlights 2014
Hockey stick Surfboard fin
moment...
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Highlights 2014
Central Coast Angels
City of SC Econ Dev
HACKUCSC
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Highlights 2015
CruzCares
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Guy Kawasaki
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Highlights 2015
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Nir Eyal
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Highlights 2016: Amazon
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Highlights 2017: Get Hired!
500 jobs offered by companies:
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Highlights 2017: Hap Klopp
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Highlights 2017
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10 Years of Santa Cruz Tech
Ingredients for a healthy tech ecosystem
Co-working & Events
Funding
Education
Santa Cruz
Tech
Infrastructure
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10 Years of Santa Cruz Tech
Results: Funding
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10 Years of Santa Cruz Tech
Results
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The Next 10 Years...
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Amazon Questions & Prizes
Name one local startup that uses AWS?
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Amazon Questions & Prizes
Name one local company that is a partner of AWS?
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Amazon Questions & Prizes
In what US city is the Alexa mobile application developed?
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Amazon Questions & Prizes
Which came first, Amazon S3 or the Santa Cruz New Tech Meetup?
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Amazon Questions & Prizes
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
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Check Under Your Chair
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Ryan Coonerty
Proclamation
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By Andy Drenick, Managing Director
FEBRUARY 2018
Capital for Founders (CFF) Overview
CFF INVESTS IN PRIVATELY-HELD, FOUNDER-RUN BUSINESSES
TYPICAL INVESTMENT STRUCTURE
Value vs. Time
Capital for Founders LLC ©2017 Capital for Founders. All Rights Reserved.
Value
Company Maturity
Growth Capital
Current Investments
Capital for Founders LLC ©2017 Capital for Founders. All Rights Reserved.
11/21
Rapid, on-site biological sample analysis system
Recurring revenue potential – cartridges
Boulder, CO
Investments August 2016 and February 2018
Wireless services in select geographies
Annual recurring revenue business
Houston, TX
Investments in December 2016 and August 2017
Next generation B2B payment platform
SaaS business – Monthly Recurring Rev
Scotts Valley, CA
Participated in Series A October 2017
Please visit us at CapitalforFounders.com
Thank you for this opportunity to present:
19/19
Special Announcements
Free and open to the public!
Music Center Recital Hall
Friday, February 23, 5:30 p.m.
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$50 per business representative up to three representatives! Includes parking, shuttle service, LUNCH, and access to UC Santa Cruz graduate students!
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Post Internships for FREE!
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Santa Cruz County
Science & Engineering Fair
needs judges in all areas of science & engineering who’d like to talk to kids about their projects on Saturday, March 10, 2018.
Register now http://science.santacruz.k12.ca.us
or Google “Santa Cruz Science Fair ”
Video https://photos.app.goo.gl/9kd6Vs2VfHRvz5TG2
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Ottm Discount for New Tech
25% off wood watch bands for Android Wear, Apple Watch, and wristwatches.
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Code: NEWTECH18
Ends Valentine’s Day
What We Need
Electrical Design Engineer
2+ yrs, EE BS +, circuit design, PCB layout, ECAD
FPGA Electrical Engineer
3 + yrs, EE BS+, circuit design, Verilog, VHDL
PCB Layout Electrical Engineer
Altium Designer, power electronics, high speed
Industrial Electrician
Medium & Low Voltage (4kv & 480)
Mechanical Engineer
–3+ yrs, ME BS+, mech design, testing, CATIA
Thermal Systems Engineer
–3+ yrs, ME BS+, thermal system sizing, STARCCM+
Software Engineer
–MS or PhD in comp sci, SE, mathematics or physics, object oriented / C++ embedded programming, RTOS
Flutter Engineer
Rotocraft dynamics, B.S. or Ph.D. Aerospace Eng.
Pilot
–Rotorcraft, fixed wing & RC experience, tech degree preferred
5-Axis CNC Machinist
Finance/Business Analyst
–EExcel Ninja, Financial modeling, Data visualization
Cook
Full time, M-F, 5+ years experience
www.joby.aero
1992
2008
2012
2018
THE ISSUE:
CHARITIES NEED MONEY
THE SOLUTION:
PEOPLE HAVE STUFF
116 MILLION
$7,000
$812 BILLION
$812 BILLION
1.5 MILLION
$541,333 per
“What is bad is not that man lives and dies. But what dies within man while he lives. And perhaps the most important thing that dies within man while he lives is his imagination. The thing that keeps you going and keeps you creative is to never lose your imagination. Always dream of things that are better and think about ways to reach those things.”
Dr. Amar Bose
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Jonathan Lo
Head of Community Development
jonathan@betterfinds.net
The Santa Cruz Tech Report
February 2018
Christopher Thornberg
Founding Partner, Beacon Economics
Director, UC Riverside Center for Forecasting and Development
Full report and presentation at:
https://beaconecon.com/archive/presentations/2018.02.07_SantaCruzTech18Thornberg.pdf
Analysis. Answers
Beacon Economics, LLC
Analysis. Answers.
COMPANY PRESENTATION
The Future of AI
Sam Lessin / FIN
sam@finxpc.com
AWS Solutions Architect
Industrial Software
Tom Jones
https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style
AI / ML / DL ?
Amazon Santa Cruz jobs:
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Triton
Personalization as a Service
Ryan Brounley
Simba Khadder
Founding Team
UCSC Computer Science Class of 2016
Triton
We’re a platform to personalize your customer’s product experience.
Personalization
Context + Behaviour ⇒ Intent
Intent allows you to enhance the user experience by providing value faster
Why Personalization?
YouTube
How they personalize:
The results:
[1] https://www.youtube.com/intl/en-GB/yt/about/press/
Netflix
[2] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/retail/our-insights/how-retailers-can-keep-up-with-consumers
How they personalize:
The results:
The Sad Truth:
Customer attention spans are going down
You need personalization to stay relevant
Personalization needs to provide value
How companies are doing it.
Personalization is Hard
Triton is the Solution
We’re a platform to personalize and maximize your customer’s product experience.
In under 30 minutes of developer time.
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Give speech to the
first 100 patients
on our waitlist
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FIRESIDE CHAT & Q&A
NATURAL LANGUAGE AND DIALOGUE SYSTEMS LAB
UC SANTA CRUZ
1985: Question Answering Dialogue @ HP
User: Which Van Gogh paintings are hard to view?
HPNL: Red Vineyards is behind the Iron Curtain at the State Museum of
Western Art in Moscow.
NATURAL LANGUAGE AND DIALOGUE SYSTEMS LAB
UC SANTA CRUZ
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NATURAL LANGUAGE AND DIALOGUE SYSTEMS LAB
UC SANTA CRUZ
Dialogue with Robots
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UC SANTA CRUZ
Storytelling Conversational Agents
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UC SANTA CRUZ
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