LAUNCH 17 Winner Oishii Farms On Plates Near You
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 […]
Forbes Love For Startup 81cents
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 […]
NSF I-Corps & LAUNCH Team Takes 2nd for UC Berkeley Hult Prize
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 […]
From I-Corps to LAUNCH to Flourish
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 […]
National Team Elektra Labs Founder On Digital Therapeutics
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 […]
Rhonda Gets”Relentlessly Direct” With GIST APEC Female Founders
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 […]
MBAs From 3 Haas Programs = Super November
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 […]
Respira Labs Founder Receives WITI@UC Athena Award
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 […]
81cents Wins The CommonBond Social Impact Award
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 […]
LAUNCH’s Predictim on WaPo Front Page
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, […]
Double Dose From The Daily Cal
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 […]
LAUNCH’s Byte Foods Raises $16.9M
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 […]
UC Berkeley & UCSF Team Named As Finalist for Collegiate Inventors Award
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 […]
NSF I-Corps Team Making Gene Therapy Affordable & Accessible
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 […]
NSF I-Corps Helps Postdocs Change The World
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 […]
Neurofit @ B-School Disrupt
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 […]
LAUNCH Team @ Top of YC Class
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, […]
Six Cal Teams @ Bay Area Summer Nationals
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 […]
Got Blockchain? Our NSF I-Corps Teams Sure Do!
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 […]
polySpectra’s 3D Printing Superpower
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.
Surf’s Up For LAUNCH Team Cruz Foam
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, […]
Team Solea @ Hult Prize Global Regionals
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 […]
LAUNCH + Y Combinator = Thriving Companies
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 […]
Western Region News: UCSC Site Director Testifies On The Hill
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. […]
Haasies Carve Fresh Tracks In January I-Corps
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 Spotted In The Wild
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!!
Countdown to LAUNCH
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 […]
Bay Area Node Teams Go To DC
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 […]
LAUNCH + YC = Venture Awesomeness
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 […]
Finding Greener Ways To Improve Technology
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 […]
NSF I-Corps Team Wins Hult Prize Campus Round
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 […]
SCET’s MTI + NSF I-Corps = Win-Win
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 […]
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Teams Thrive In Regional I-Corps Training
“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 […]
NSF I-Corps Teams Shine @ 10th Anniversary of Cleantech To Market (C2M)
Great celebration last week, as the Energy Institute @Haas’ C2M program celebrated it’s 10th anniversary of partnering students and energy startups for a semester long deep dive into commercialization. […]
