This week’s #FemaleFounderFriday celebrates the increasing number of women-led STEM teams training in our monthly NSF I-Corps program. July teams had a particular emphasis on applied AI–from improving malaria diagnosis/treatment and […]
This #FemaleFounderFriday, we congratulate and celebrate with Emilie Mazzacurati, founder of Four Twenty Seven! The company measures the physical risks of climate change and tracks their impact on supply chains, companies […]
A Pediatric Neurologist, Neuropsychologist & Surgeon (who also happens to be a Berkeley-Haas EMBA) walked into an NSF I-Corps National training cohort last winter. Their tech for detecting epileptic seizures was […]
Bears were in the House for Coalition for National Science Funding Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. last week! Rhonda Shrader (Executive Director of NSF I-Corps Bay Area Node & Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship) and […]
This #FemaleFounderFriday, we celebrate UC Berkeley Molecular & Cell Biology ’19 founder Mehek Mohan of Clean Slate. Mehek has the single best opening question to introduce her company. Just ask her. 😀 […]
Move over Elon, NSF I-Corps and Haas alum Saharnaz Safari’s Loonify Space was one of the hottest companies @ last week’s YC W19 Demo Day. TechCrunch writes: “A bespoke launch system meant specifically […]
Special thanks to guest contributor Anita Balaraman Why Epixego? We can’t think of a better problem to work on, than one that affects our children and their future. Real data […]
Read more about how two UC Berkeley researchers and an EWMBA student are transforming the contraceptive market and shaking up the W19 YC Demo Day! YourChoice completed our one week […]
For science-based startups, early capital is particularly hard to secure, due to the technical risk that angel investors and venture capitalists are typically not willing to bear. This […]
Celebrating International Women’s Day & #FemaleFounderFriday with a recent NSF I-Corps National team that’s making a huge impact! Lisa Papadopoulos was a rock star in the National program last summer and neuroFit continues […]
It’s going to be an exciting 2019 as more of our NSF I-Corps teams move up and onward! Berkeley-Haas MBA-MPH dual degree student Amy Fan excelled in last summer’s I-Corps, […]
2018 was a big year for our National NSF I-Corps teams. In addition to sending 28 new teams, our 2017 teams continue their progress using on-campus resources such as CITRIS […]
Our final NSF I-Corps short course of 2018 is a wrap! Great group including two undergrad teams, one from UC Berkeley & another all the way from UC Santa Cruz! Rounding […]
On this #FemaleFounderFriday, we’re celebrating Bakar Fellow & KarnaTeq founder Kathleen Collins, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at UC Berkeley. Professor Collins & Bakar Innovation Fellow Heather Upton generously shared […]
Where are our LAUNCH winners now? On the plates of three-star Michelin chefs, for OISHII Farm (LAUNCH ’17)! Co-founded by Haas MBA 17 Hiroki Koga and UCLA Anderson School MBA 17 Brendan […]
More media love for Jordan & 81Cents! Jordan used her experience as co-chair for last year’s LAUNCH accelerator and her summer as a Hansoo Lee Fellow to found a company […]
So many cross-campus collaborations @ last night’s UC Berkeley Campus Round for the $1M Hult Prize! The winner, Thrive Education, aims to disrupt diagnosis of learning disabilities and hails from […]
Pedro Moura and Jessica Eting met as Evening-Weekend MBA students and discovered a shared passion for improving the financial health of underrepresented communities. They took their first idea, a gamified […]
Andy Coravos, founder of Elektra Labs, authored a great piece in Wired detailing the increasing acceptance for and use of “digital therapeutics” for medical interventions. Read the full story in […]
Each year, the US State Department sponsors the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) program. This year’s focus was on Female Founders and our very own Bay Area Node Executive […]
Haasies racked up a number of superlatives during our November NSF I-Corps short course! EMBA 18 alum Olivier Carteret’s teammate traveled all the way from Paris. First year MBA student […]
Congrats to Maria Artunduaga, founder of Respira Labs on her recent Early Career award from WITI@UC. This NSF I-Corps National (Summer 18) and LAUNCH 18 team continues to conduct customer […]
Congrats to Jordan Sale, Haas MBA 19, for winning the CommonBond Social Impact Award finals in NYC. Jordan co-chaired the UC-wide LAUNCH accelerator last spring and has been applying lessons […]
This LAUNCH 18 standout has grown by leaps and bounds after a radical pivot from cleaning up social media profiles for millennial job seekers to helping anxious parents find safe, […]
A two-fer from The Daily Californian! Profiles on National NSF I-Corps team Squishy Robotics led by Professor Alice Agogino AND one of our LAUNCH standouts, senior Jeremey Hammer, founder of Bear […]
Congrats to Megan Mokri (Berkeley-Haas EWMBA 16) founder of Byte Foods on the company’s latest round, bringing the total to $16.9M. If you work in SF, you’ve most likely enjoyed a […]
Team Vidi, a National NSF I-Corps team from Summer 18 has been named a finalist in this annual competition sponsored by the US Patent and Trade Office. Federico is a […]
Great feature on National NSF I-Corps team (and now company), Mekonos. In addition to I-Corps, they have continued to refine their collaborative chip technology through both the UC-wide LAUNCH accelerator […]
The Bay Area Node proudly supported the third annual Bay Area Postodoc Symposium and had a ball. Lots of smart cookies and even a Science Battle at the end. Note: 8 […]
More Entrepreneurial Leads in the news—Team Neurofit, led by Lida Papadopoulos, MD & Haas EMBA ’16, was one of two teams representing Haas in the annual B-School Disrupt event with […]
They’re at it again! Medinas Health, founded by Chloe Alpert, continues crushing the competition. They were part of Y Combinator’s Summer 18 batch and were featured in a TechCrunch article, […]
UC Berkeley & Berkeley-Haas were well-represented at National NSF I-Corps with a whopping six teams including, two female-founders (both MDs!) Neurofit: led by Lida Kourita #EMBA16 Respira Labs: led by Launch: The University of […]
Founder, MBA and software engineer Andy Coravos is using blockchain tools to power solutions that improve health across the globe. “There are three areas where software as a medical device […]
A graduate of our one week Immersive Short course in 2016, this Cyclotron Road team received an NSF Phase I SBIR in 2017. Read more about their Additive Future here.
UC Santa Cruz scientists have developed a technology that’s close to home. Currently finishing up the UC-wide LAUNCH accelerator and then heading to the LA cohort for National NSF I-Corps, […]
Congrats to NSF I-Corps & SCET MTI class alum, Solea! Led by Baker Innovation Fellow Raissa Estrela, the team rocked last week’s Hunt Prize global regionals. Although the CRSPR/Cas 9 solution to […]
The #ShibSibs aren’t the only bro-sis duo making news! Check out how Karen (EWMBA 19) & Alex found their product-market fit close to home for Onederful. Also profiled is the Players’ Lounge crew–two of […]
A seven-year-old National Science Foundation program provides considerable benefit to universities, investors, taxpayers, the American economy, and society at large, a UC Santa Cruz physics professor told a congressional committee. […]
Berkeley-Haas MBA students led the way in last month’s NSF I-Corps. Federico Alvarez (MBA 18) + 2 UC Berkeley-UCSF Bioengineering PhD students along w/a UCSD PhD student co-founded Vidi to track […]
Kiwis in the wild!! LAUNCH alum & current Skydeck company Kiwi Campus is delivering food across the UC Berkeley campus. Download the app & get fed: http://bit.ly/2Atb42v . We you too, Kiwi!!
Introducing the 2018 Cohort of UC’s Homegrown Accelerator Over the past three years, LAUNCH alumni have raised over $33M in funding. In 2017 alone, a LAUNCH company completed a $540M exit […]
Represent! A record number of five teams shipped out to National training with their $50k grants in tow. They’ll hone their value props and customer segments as they prepare conduct […]
Epic trek to Y Combinator with the LAUNCH student exec team! LAUNCH is an intense, 3-month UC-wide accelerator program for students, alums, faculty and staff with UC affiliations. YC Partner Kat […]
For the first time ever, Berkeley-Haas Entrepreneurship (BHEP) and Berkeley’s IEOR department have joined forces to form an immersive and rigorous course, Lean Transfer (INDENG 290). This course consists of MBA students as well […]
Teams from across campus brought their A-games to the UC Berkeley campus round for the $1M Hult Prize. One participant was even a Shark Tank alum! Ideas ranged from a blockchain […]
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 […]
“The lessons of I-Corps highlight the critical role customer feedback can play in program building at Berkeley Lab,” said Brett Helms of the Sepion team. “I will never write a […]
