ICYMI, our beloved National NSF I-Corps, UC Berkeley Masters of Translational Medicine (MTM) & UC LAUNCH alum, Dr. Maria Artunduaga continues to shine! Respira Labs recently raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Zentynel Frontier Investments with participation by VentureWell, ImpactAssets, and several angel investors from the United States and Latin America. The company Read more…
Last month’s NSF I-Corps wrapped with an intrepid team of UC Berkeley undergrads, a UCSF professor & beloved Berkeley Haas #EMBA + National I-Corps alum, founder Lida Kourita. The team is focused on improving sleep for adolescents and conducted 15 interviews, including one with professor & author of the excellent Read more…
December I-Corps wrapped with 16 teams across two cohorts, including a quarterly Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center (LSEC) edition. HOPO Therapeutics gained new insights along with a surprise or two as they dug deeper into understanding the ecosystem around lead poisoning. Comprised of a Haas MBA/MPH student + a recent Berkeley Read more…
October I-Corps is a wrap! Berkeley Haas EWMBA 24 Debra Goodson & her sister Stacey, faculty @ UCSF conducted 20 interviews during the week, refining their business thesis as well as gaining a much better understanding of their potential customers’ true pain points. What can our free, 3-evening/1-week course do to power your STEM Read more…
September I-Corps wrapped with strong cohort, including Aepnus Technology, helmed by a UC Berkeley PhD student and a postdoc. Aepnus Technology Inc. is solving the problem of scarcity of critical battery minerals by synthesis. Over the course of one week and 16 interviews, they were able to narrow their customer Read more…
Wrapped August I-Corps with incredible teams working on high impact projects, relevant for right now. Two University of California, Berkeley postdocs through the PostX program conducted 16 interviews during the week for their Wildfire Urban Interface (WUI) evac planning solution. Team WUIgo invalidated their initial hypos around who the customer would be. Read more…
Check out a 5-min video abstract, with Steve Blank (!), summarizing research on WHY learning/applying Lean Startup methodology is superior to advising models, listening to founder war stories, focusing solely on mindset, etc. 3 key findings from this longitudinal study of the first 150 National Science Foundation (NSF) #ICorps teams. The research Read more…
NSF I-Corps July wrapped with a Berkeley Haas alum & VA Tech team, Battery Twin. Sal Parsa, MBA 18 is a UC LAUNCH & Skydeck (invested cohort) alum, now with BCG. He’s still using his superpowers to help aspiring entrepreneurs. Battery Twin conducted a whopping 23 interviews in 7 days, Read more…
Wrapped up April NSF I-Corps with outstanding teams from across the country! UCSF fielded the largest team with PI Aaron Kornblith & Blackstone LaunchPad Director Jeni Janci pushing the team to 17 interviews in a single week. Their biggest surprise? Learning what their colleagues really think…and gaining new insights to Read more…
Meet the UC LAUNCH Accelerator Spring 21 cohort teams! Aaron Hall founded Intropic Materials while finishing his PhD in Materials Science & Engineering at UC Berkeley. Intropic is developing high performance self-degrading plastics that last exactly as long as they are needed. Learn more about their journey through last Fall’s Read more…