NSF grant recipient and LAUNCH ’15 winner Ava’s three co-founders were recently named to Forbes 30 under 30 list. Ava makes a mobile tool to convert conversations into text for hearing-impaired individuals. Co-founder Skinner Cheng represent the first deaf founder to be included on the prestigious Forbes list. CEO and Read more…
It’s been a busy year for ViaeX! After completing the Summer ’16 cohort, the team applied their new skills and learnings at SF’s IndieBio accelerator. Earlier this month, they took 2nd place in the UCB campus round for the Hult Prize.This year’s Hult Prize challenge was focused on improving the lives of refugees. ViaeX’s Read more…
Jill Fujisaki served as the industry mentor for Waypoint Biosciences during last summer’s National NSF I-Corps Southwest Node cohort in Austin, TX.. Jill (center) is pictured above with Susan Chen, John Haliburton and Graham Heimberg. Susan was selected as the top Entrepreneurial Lead for the entire cohort. Congrats to Waypoint. Tell Read more…
LAUNCH 2015 winner Ava just announced the closure of a $1.8M funding round including luminaries such as Steve Blank and Tim Draper. Ava is aiming to bring deaf and hard-of-hearing people back into group conversations with their threaded speech-to-text application that gives people with hearing issues an easy way to stay Read more…
Another month, another awesome Immersive Short!! Instructor Whitney Hischier led a group of standouts including a Cyclotron Road accelerator participant (Polyspectra) as well as a Haas Startup Marketplace participant from UCB Energy Biosciences (Zimitech). Teams completed 15-20 interviews during the one week course. Armed with their new skills and info, Read more…
LymeDot formed and won the UC Berkeley Lyme Hack before accelerating a month later with the Bay Area I-Corps Node’s Immersive Short Course. They went on to win $5k seed funding during the semi-finals of the national Lyme Innovation competition at MIT. This weekend, they took 2nd place in the final competition and will Read more…
One of the highlights of our first I-Corps Immersive Short Course in May was the energy and passion brought by the three founders of Peer Play. All are current EMBA students at Berkeley Haas and all share a passion for helping children and young people succeed. Cristy Johnston-Limon was recently Read more…
Civil Maps founder Sravan Puttagunta has put his I-Corps training to good use! Find out how he and his team are using crowdsourced data collection to change the way we’ll all get around in the future. Read the Fortune article here. Learn more about our next Immersive Short course in September, Read more…
Just like Simone Biles and the rest of the US Gymnastics team, powerful things come in small packages! Our one week July Immersive Short course featured a number of faculty and student teams, including a Dean’s Seed Fund winner (Mules4Schools) and hackathon winners (LymeDot) now competing to present at the Read more…