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 […]
LAUNCH ’15 Winners Named to Forbes 30 Under 30
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 […]
Update: National I-Corps Team ViaeX
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 […]
Mentor Moment: Jill Fujisaki with Waypoint Biosciences
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, […]
Ava (formerly Transcence) Raises $1.8M
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 […]
August Immersive Short Course Roundup
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 […]
Bay Area I-Corps Team LymeDot Wins Big
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 […]
I-Corps Short Course Star In The News
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 […]
NSF I-Corps-Trained Founder Raises $6.6M Seed Round
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 […]
NSF I-Corps: Short Course, Big Impact
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 […]
