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 […]