Caught up with Vivian Qu @ Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship Mentor Hours today. Her NSF I-Corps National team (summer ’16) + IndieBio alum ViaeX just raised $4M. ViaeX develops natural biomaterials to replace traditional materials and processes, enabling a world that is less reliant on shrinking resources and instead uses renewable materials. Keep Read more
Eric Munsing (technical lead for National I-Corps team eCal Charge) and Rhonda Shrader (Bay Area Node Executive Director) represented the Node during two days of Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF) activities. The pair met with 20+ Members of Congress (Zoe Lofgren, D-CA pictured here) to brief them on how the Read more
Alvaro Silberstein and his team Wheel The World made one of the biggest and most painful pivots during the 3-month UC-wide accelerator. Their success now is undeniable, with new sponsorships from North Face and others. Read here for one example of how UC Berkeley teams are changing the world! Read more
Kicked off our latest one week NSF I-Corps training last night. Teams from UC Berkeley, Stanford and Berkeley Labs ranging from optimizing Chinese medicine supplementation to mapping gamma radiation with drones. Curious? We’re running three *free* one week Lean Startup training sessions over the summer: http://bit.ly/2bTlHyl. Source link
19 teams from across the UC system made it through the rigorous 3-month accelerator! 1st place: Oishii Farms (vertical farming) Runner Up: Mekonos (nanorobotic chip making gene therapy safe) Audience Choice: Pop Oats (introducing the world to savory oat snacks) Plug-n-Play Award: Kokko (cosmetic color matching) Thanks to Poets & Read more
Berkeley-Haas EMBAs were in the house!! Our latest NSF I-Corps Immersive Short course kicked off last night. Eleos is a team of five EMBA students exploring the use of a wearable + Alexa for patients and caregivers impacted by Alzheimers. Want to join other top UCB teams for *free* Lean Read more
Rock star roboticist, artist & EECS professor Ken Goldberg @ last night’s BEA/IPIRA/NSF-ICorps tech transfer event. Thanks to the students who pulled it off and to faculty from across campus for packing the house to talk about their experiences commercializing technology UC Berkeley. Learn more about next semester’s Lean Transfer class–tonight 7-8:30 @The Read more
Congrats to LAUNCH team DNALite for being in the next IndieBio cohort! $250k and a sweet space in SF to accelerate their colorectal cancer therapy–awesome. Source link
More love for LAUNCH from a piece in today’s Daily Cal! Get an update on how accelerator alums like Idan Geva (pictured) and Manuel Acevedo are changing the world for good. Source link
Congrats to our latest crop of NSF I-Corps Immersive Short grads! This cohort was a joint effort with Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology’s (SCET) Management of Technology Innovation (MTI) class with grad students from across campus. Upon completion of the Immersive Short, students are now 2/3 of the way through Read more