Google is committed to empowering entrepreneurs around the world through programs, partnerships, and our products.

Heroku is a cloud-based, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that gives startups a powerful solution for building, deploying, and operating their business-critical apps. The Heroku platform is fully-managed, meaning that we take care of servers, hardware, and infrastructure, so you can keep your team lean and focused on product. Heroku grows with your business — use a range of free services to get established and then scale up with increased usage.

Peter Biggam, Inc. is a Consulting & Design Firm located in Santa Cruz, CA. It helps to build ideas from thought to reality.

Idea Fab Labs, Santa Cruz is a member-driven creation zone for makers of all levels to collaborate, innovate, and build a community. At IFL you can have access to high tech tools and design software, learn new skills through classes and workshops, and collaborate with fellow members on fun and interesting projects.

Blacksite.Solutions provides our chapter with inkind sponsorship of our events in multiple ways. They offer amazing network solutions and security services for the family home to global corporations that need the highest level of secure communications and data transfer.

Everything at hellodesk starts with saying hello to the community! This means that monthly memberships (Engage & Create) come with an all-inclusive community component (#HDCommunityBenefits) that provides our members with a way to connect with other community members online and offline. You also have an option to buy one or more day pass(es) and try working with us before committing to a monthly membership.

Digital NEST (Nurturing Entrepreneurial Skills with Technology) is rooted in the socio-economic struggle of a small California coastal town surrounded by a large agricultural region. Watsonville (pop. 51,881), shares the challenges of many poor and underserved communities across the United States: high rates of poverty and unemployment, a high number of high school dropouts and a low rate of college graduates.