This #FemaleFounderFriday, we celebrate Berkeley Haas #EWMBA ’20, Rory Stanton, founder of Aila Health! 🐻 Aila Health brings AI-driven precision health to patients in their homes. The need for remote management has […]
Blockchain, AI & Faculty research from across UC Berkeley (BioE, I-School) were the big themes for this month’s cohort. 20 teams from Cal, Stanford, MIT, UCSC and Johns Hopkins brought […]
Incoming Berkeley Haas MBA students are already embodying the Defining Principle of going #BeyondYourself. 🐻 When we announced a special COVID-19 Startup Marketplace project with UC Berkeley BioEngineering Professor Kevin Healy’s lab, […]
The first University of California, Berkeley AccelerateHer @ Berkeley (AxH) is a wrap! The program consisted of two Startup Weekends last Fall for 20 teams with at least one team member identifying […]
April NSF I-Corps wrapped this week with stellar teams from UC Berkeley, Stanford, Stanford GSB, Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley Labs. Appropriately for the week of Earth Day, multiple teams focused on […]
One more example of the Bay Area STEM community joining forces to fight the pandemic. Great to see top teams for both Diagnostics & Ventilators helmed by #FemaleFounders who are *both* […]
Industry Mentors (IM) are the backbone of the National I-Corps program. They volunteer their time as an extension of the teaching team, going through kickoff/closing and weekly online sessions. Their […]
Although our first session was in-person, we had to quickly pivot to Zoom for classes 2 and 3. Dentia (the team pictured) includes a dentist & post doc working on […]
This #FemaleFounderFriday we celebrate recent Berkeley Haas MBA/MPH grad Amy Fan, co-founder of Twentyeight Health. 🐻 Now located in Brooklyn, Amy et al. wrapped pre-seed fundraising last Fall and is starting StartX […]
“We were trying to do too many things, for too many people.” “NSF I-Corps taught us to look through the lens of real people to see what they actually care […]
UC LAUNCH ’18 standout & National NSF I-Corps team Cruz Foam announced their seed round, as well as a $225k Phase I SBIR grant. Hailing from UCSC, the team creates […]
January wrapped with 10 teams from across UC Berkeley and UCSF, all completing at least 15 customer discovery interviews. UCSF Startup Marketplace team, WYZ is a group of MBA-MPH students working […]
In the Fall of 2018, electric scooters faced a scale-limiting problem–charging. Three first year Berkeley Haas MBA students took their idea through our one week NSF I-Corps course. Instead of […]
Congrats to Megan Mokri & Byte Foods on the acquisition! Now you’ll be able to enjoy delicious, nutritious food from their fridges in even more locations. Byte Technologies will remain…more […]
Chidananda Khatua shut down his UC LAUNCH venture after discovering, through the program’s extensive training in Lean Startup methodology, that the product would not scale. He used the skills learned, though, to […]
Check out this two min video & hear from two incredible #FemaleFounders about how their LAUNCH experiences have shaped their startups. 🎯🐻 Thank you, Chloe (Medinas) & Megan (Byte)!!! 😍😍🙏
Three UC Berkeley teams celebrated finishing 7-week NSF I-Corps National cohort last week with 100+ customer discovery interviews each…and much closer to product-market fit. (L to R): Oralome (joint team with Stanford), […]
The three month UC LAUNCH accelerator kicked off in January with 25 teams from across six UCs. Machine learning figures prominently in several of the ventures–from using AI to create […]
Happy #FemaleFounderFriday! Today we celebrate two National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps founders who have just received Phase 1 SBIR grants ($225k). SBIR grants (aka America’s Seed Fund) provide up to $1.5M in […]
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 […]
