The University of California, Berkeley has announced promising early results from a $2.2 million grant provided by the State of California. The grant has helped UC Berkeley, already a global hub for innovation, to expand its entrepreneurship activities with new facilities, courses and programs. “The funding adds fuel to the already Read more
Great to get an update from LAUNCH ’15 Audience Choice winner, Innovein Medical. Founder & CEO Austin Walker stopped by a recent LAUNCH alumni gathering to celebrate and share news on how Innovein’s minimally invasive valve for veins is taking off. In addition to being named to the Forbes#30under30 list and one of Read more
The December cohort of NSF I-Corps wrapped with a whopping 12 teams! UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering Professor Grace O’Connell’s team honed the value prop for their spine surgery solution. Bioengineering M.Eng students Ian Sicher and Jose Ramirez got out of the building for their Startup Marketplace project with QB3 company Read more
What do microscopes, lasers & greener jeans have in common? They are all UC Berkeley Bakar Fellows technologies that were generously shared by the inventors with students in Lean Transfer. Students from Berkeley Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley Fung Institute For Engineering Leadership, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology – SCET & Haas School of Read more
Our latest National Science Foundation I-Corps *free* one week Immersive Short course just wrapped with a surprise reveal. A Bakar Innovation Fellow-led team got out of the building with a hypothesis that cosmetic companies would love their fatty acid technology. Fifteen interviews and one week later, they learned that local (!!) Read more
One more day to apply for two programs guaranteed to take your deep tech startup to the next level! Aether, a team of UCSC undergrads, did our one week Immersive Short NSF I-Corps program and was accepted into the full 7-week National course. As part of the program, they received Read more
Our *free* monthly Lean Startup training throughNational Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps wrapped last night with 5 MTI teams & 3 Skydeck teams as well as teams from Berkeley Lab & UCSC. Pictured here is Haas School of Business – UC Berkeley MBA/MPH 1st year student Zach Looman serving as entrepreneurial lead for Polybiomics. Apps for Read more
Why is Jessica Eting (NSF I-Corps Immersive Short alum & Berkeley-Haas EWMBA 18) smiling? Because she just learned how to get up to $1.5M in startup funding with 0% equity!! Thanks to our friends @ Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA) for bringing the Inclusion in Entrepreneurship Summit to Read more
Check out the 2 minute Lessons Learned video from National Science Foundation (NSF) #ICorps team Brack2Fresh from UC Berkeley‘s Berkeley Lab (formerly LBNL). This was the 1000th team in the National program and they’re moving ahead with commercializing technology to desalinate ground water for CA farmers. Brack2Fresh did a fantastic job of finding product-market fit. They Read more
Congrats to LAUNCH team Kokko Beauty for selection into the Techstars Retail Accelerator @ Target’s HQ! Kokko is the firsts mobile color matching system. It is co-founded by UCB alum (and holder of 24 patents on imaging, mobile & web applications!) Nina Bhatti & Berkeley-Haas alum Scott Trappe. Ten teams out of 400 Read more