Bay Area Decision Sciences Summit
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 the good news coming!
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 investment in NSF I-Corps is creating jobs and bringing economic growth to the region.
Lean more from this UC Berkeley news piece!
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!
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.
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 & Quants for the write-up and in-depth profile with our teams.
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 Startup training? Apply for our next session starting May 8 (apps due 4/24): http://bit.ly/2bTlHyl
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 House.
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.
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.
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 the MTI class that will end in a demo day in early May, complete with cash prizes.
Student teams represented programs from multiple schools including, the UCB-UCSF Masters of Translational Medicine (MTM), the Berkeley Haas School of Business, the Goldman School of Public Policy , UC Berkeley Fung Institute For Engineering Leadership and PhD students from UC Berkeley Colleges of Chemistry, Bioengineering and Mathematics
Best team quote of the night: I now understand who to contact, what to ask and how to conduct the interviews….I’ve also learned not to sell, but to really listen to their problems.
Special thanks to Instructor Chris DeNoia & TA Adeeba Khairzad for a super learning experience!
Our ext Immersive Short starts 4/17: http://bit.ly/2bTlHyl.
