“The Bay Area I-Corps team gave us the shove we needed to move from what to why. We spent time understanding why our customers’ problems were important to them and why they are important to employers & insurers. Getting to the root and learning how to communicate it back to Read more
A real life happy ending for UC LAUNCH team Redvest AI after a three month virtual accelerator! Founder Silas Everett is a recent MIDS grad from UC Berkeley’s School of Information as well as a National NSF I-Corps alum. Redvest tracks personnel on large construction sites so that managers know Read more
NSF I-Corps wrapped up 2020 with outstanding teams from UC Berkeley, UC Merced, Cal Poly SLO, UCSC & Stanford. Berkeley Haas #EMBA team Novasine conducted 20 customer discovery interviews that yielded unique insights for their product roadmap. Cal-Stanford team ETTA also gained greater clarity around who their actual customer is Read more
The National Security Innovation Network, a program office within the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Blum Center have expanded their partnership to connect students, researchers, and entrepreneurs at the University of California, Berkeley, with the DoD. This collaboration expands opportunities for researchers as well as students to work directly Read more
Teams from across UC Berkeley, UCSB, Cal Poly SLO & Stanford elected to spend the first week in November with NSF I-Corps! Berkeley Haas MBA/MPH students refined their idea for a solution to support patients with chronic conditions. Armed with new skills, they’ll build on the initial 15 interviews to Read more
National NSF I-Corps team MyShake recently had its California earthquake early warning system added into Android phones. Based out of the Berkeley Seismological Labs, MyShake used the National program to pivot from a B2C to B2B model. Their lessons learned have clearly had an impact in making our world safer. Read more
The popularity of E-sports continues to explode around the world. Betting on E-sports was already growing exponentially before lockdown and is now expected to be a $14B market by the end of 2020. A team of students hailing from UC Berkeley and Harvard are building the tools needed to keep Read more
National NSF I-Corps team Coreshell Technologies recently announced raising $4M for their lithium-ion battery coating. After completing National I-Corps as a community-track team (Summer ’18), the company obtained a Phase I NSF SBIR grant. Since then, they’ve continued to refine their technology to align with the needs uncovered during customer Read more
In addition to teams from UCSC, UCSF and UC Berkeley, we had not one, but two Haas EMBA physician-led teams in this month’s NSF I-Corps! Lida Papadopoulos (EMBA 16) is a National I-Corps alum, leading her last company (neuroFit) through the program and on to a Phase I SBIR. She Read more
So much to celebrate with our first 80 National I-Corps teams! Founders with fundamental tech innovations from UC Berkeley, Berkeley Haas, UC Santa Cruz and Stanford shared their journeys to, through and beyond the 7 week/100 interviews/$50k National program. See the recording here. Password: C5m09#5A Several founders shared their original Read more