UPCOMING EVENTS
September 11 5:00 -7:30pm
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley
Join inventors, investors and Bay Area leaders for the 2017 Berkeley Visionary Awards. A partnership between the City of Berkeley,
Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, UC Berkeley, and the Berkeley Lab, the event is a
celebration of Berkeley's entrepreneurs and local innovators who have created
products that are changing the world.
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September 14 7:30 - 9pm
Aduro Biotech (Franklin Room), 740 Heinz Avenue, Berkeley
How many civilizations capable of interstellar communication exist in our Milky Way galaxy? This FREE event is co-presented by Wonderfest and the Bay Area Skeptics (BAS) and hosted by Aduro Biotech.
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September 15 7:30am - 7pm
Pauley Ballroom, 2475 Bancroft Way // UC Berkeley
Berkeley IPIRA is hosting a tech summit to empower underrepresented minorities, offer funding through SBIR/STTR grants, and network with peers fresh in the tech industry.
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September 21-23
Oakland Asian Cultural Center, 388 9th St. #290, Oakland
Jenny Kassan Consulting is hosting a 3-day event for women entrepreneurs who want to raise the right money from the right investors. Join an amazing group of women entrepreneurs to learn the tools and strategies for raising capital on your own terms.
The Earlybird Special ($297 instead of $997) ends today.
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September 30 9am - 9pm
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
Join the Re:source Hackathon, an event to build technological tools to help refugees thrive in the U.S. Donate your energy and talent to address the refugee crisis here in our own community.
Register today
RESOURCES & DEADLINES
September 15: Submission deadline for nominations
The 2018 East Bay Innovation Awards will celebrate companies and organizations that make the East Bay one of the nation's preeminent regions of innovation. To qualify as a nominee, an organization must:
- Be a for-profit business or not-for-profit organization, with headquarters or operations in Alameda or Contra Costa Counties.
- Have achieved an innovation in the East Bay that is being used for new and improved products, processes, services, systems or methods.
Nominate a Business or Organization Now
Now through September 29: Fall application window for the next Skydeck Cohort Track
Formed as a partnership between the Haas School of Business, the College of Engineering, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, SkyDeck combines the consulting know-how of traditional accelerators with the vast resources of its research university. SkyDeck regularly hosts office hours with VC’s, seed funds, angel investors, law firms, accountants, subject matter experts, qualified startup vendors, and experienced entrepreneurs.
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Fall 2017
Berkeley Law
The Berkeley IP Lab provides IP legal assistance and patent landscape analysis for startups. Apply now for assistance in Fall 2017 from Berkeley Law students and practicing attorneys.
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BERKELEY ENTREPRENEURS MAKING NEWS
Eko Devices, founded by UC Berkeley students Tyler Crouch, Jason Bellet and Connor Landgraf, was featured in the Business section of The New York Times in August. The company's latest product, the Duo, a digital stethoscope which allows patients to monitor their health at home and send the data to their doctors is scheduled to become available by prescription in the Fall.
Read the Full Article
Aduro Biotech, Inc. (Nasdaq:ADRO), a Berkeley-based biopharmaceutical company with three distinct immunotherapy technologies, issued a press release in August to announce that the US Patent and Trademark Office had issued the company two patents related to the activation of the STING (Stimulator of Interferon Genes) Pathway, a central mediator in triggering the development of tumor-specific immunity.
Read the Press Release
Keep in Touch
To submit information or questions on the Berkeley Startup Cluster, contact: oedmailbox@cityofberkeley.info
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