Santa Cruz Local, LLC is a private company co-owned by Kara Meyberg Guzman and Stephen Baxter. We are seeking investors. We intend to disclose our investors as part of our commitment to transparency.
We believe in a separation between Santa Cruz Local’s news gathering operations and business operations. No donor, member, investor or advertiser of Santa Cruz Local will have weighted influence on or early access to any journalism we produce. We will disclose when our stories or podcasts involve an investor or their related interests.
Kara Meyberg Guzman works full-time at Santa Cruz Local, and does not have other sources of income. Her spouse, Jacob Meyberg Guzman, is an engineer at Poly. Kara will recuse herself from any story that deeply involves Poly.