UPCOMING EVENTS
Today: Monday May 6, 2019 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center // UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94709
Space Tech Symposium @ Berkeley 2019 is a gathering of space tech pioneers in industry and research. Top startups executives, scientists, and engineers will present their visions of the future of space tech and much more. Attendees will be able to interact with presenters as well as with fellow industry professionals attending the event. There will be 3 main speaker panels on Robotics in Space, Biology in Space, and Earth-Space Services, as well as a keynote presentation.
Learn more and register for STAC.
Tuesday May 7, 2019 10:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center // UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94709
Spring 2019 Demo Day preparations are under way and Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator is proud to present their first cohort of entrepreneurs. Join for a day full of networking and amazing team presentations.
To learn more and register, see Blockchain Demo Day.
Thursday May 9, 2019 2:00 PM
Bonneville Labs // 626 Bancroft Way Suite A Berkeley, CA 94710
Building a relationship with the agencies and inspectors that monitor life science facilities can lead to smoother permitting processes and increased compliance.
Join the City of Berkeley and Biocom for an important discussion with Berkeley regulatory agencies that oversee building permits, hazardous waste disposal, fire preparedness, and air quality.
Limited space available. Register now for the “Meet the Inspector” Workshop.
Friday May 10, 2019 10:00 AM
Jacobs Hall, UC Berkeley // 2350 Ridge Rd Studio 310 Berkeley, CA 94720
The Collider Cup is SCET's all-star showcase of the best student teams from Spring 2019. Come watch teams pitch to panels of professors, investors and industry experts as they vie to win the grand prize, the Collider Cup. The top three teams from the event will receive automatic final round meetings with Arrow Capital for the potential to receive $15K- $50K in seed funding.
Learn more and register for the SCET Collider Cup.
Tuesday May 14, 2019 2:00 PM
2495 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720 // Pauley Ballroom, UC Berkeley Campus
Save the Date for SkyDeck’s Spring 2019 Demo Day! If you are an accredited investor, please apply to be invited to the invite-only Demo Day. All investors who have previously attended and SkyAdvisors automatically receive an invite.
To be invited, fill out the interest form here.
Thursday, May 16th 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Wareham Development's EmeryStation // 5858 Horton St # 150, Emeryville, CA 94608
The East Bay STEM Career Awareness Day will provide East Bay students with insight into potential STEM careers and educational opportunities in their own backyards.
To participate in the Working Lunch from 11:15am to 12:15pm, please register here.
To participate in Exhibitor Tabling from 12:15pm to 1:15pm, please register here.
To join as a Chaperone, please fill out the form here.
To learn more and register, see STEM Career Awareness Day or contact Janiene Langford.
Friday May 31, 2019 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Ed Roberts Campus // 3075 Adeline Street Osher Room 1st Floor, Berkeley, CA 94703
Designed to help employers, hiring managers, and recruiters access talent and resources that help their companies stay competitive, during this forum, attendees will hear from employers who have successfully found talent with disabilities to fill their job openings and learn about other workforce services offered by the Alameda County Workforce Development Board.
Register here to learn how to Expand Your Talent Pool.
June 10, 12 and 17, 2019 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM (Registration required by 05/24)
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley // 2220 Piedmont Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720
The Bay Area NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Node is offering a one-week intensive course based on Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad. The three evening sessions will focus on the Business Model Canvas, Value Propositions, and Customer Discovery, which are essential to de-risking your idea and achieving product-market fit. Outside of class, teams do 15 interviews with potential customers as part of the customer discovery process. Teams can expect to spend 20-30 hours outside of class on interviews.
To learn more and register by May 24, see Lean LaunchPad Training or contact Eugene Noh.
RESOURCES & DEADLINES
An Entrepreneur-Team (E-Team) is a multidisciplinary group of students working together with faculty to bring an invention to market. Receive an E-Team grant up to $25K and get training through the early-stage innovator training program. The program provides peer networking, expert coaching, national recognition, and hands-on workshops to move your innovation forward.
Learn more and apply here by Wednesday, May 8.
Girls in Tech's AMPLIFY is a half-day startup pitch competition for women-founded startups. If you are a founder, work at a female-founded startup, or know someone who does, consider applying to AMPLIFY for a chance to win $10,000+ in seed funding and services, exposure on a global stage, and be introduced to a community of investors committed to supporting women entrepreneurs.
Learn more and apply by May 10, 2019
DIV is a USAID program that tests ideas and scales proven solutions for global development challenges. DIV provides tiered grant funding ($50,000 to $5,000,000) for innovative solutions that demonstrate rigorous evidence of impact, cost-effectiveness, and a viable pathway to scale. Applications are accepted year-round on a rolling basis.
Learn more and apply here.
BERKELEY ENTREPRENEURS MAKING NEWS
Berkeley-based Eclipse Foods co-founder Thomas Bowman is creating a line of animal-free products made with a new proprietary plant-based milk. In addition to having a more milk-like flavor, their product is more versatile than other competitors and can be used to make a wide range of dairy products.
Read more in The Wall Street Journal.
Cuberg is an alumni of the Berkeley Lab's Cyclotron Road's accelerator cohort 2 and has support from Boeing, various venture capitalists, and the U.S. Department of Energy. They just successfully tested the first drone powered by their new, non-flammable lithium-metal batteries. During the flight test, the quadcopter flew 70 percent longer than the one powered by a traditional lithium-ion battery.
See the Popular Mechanics article about Cuberg.
UC Berkeley SCET alumni Eko DUO was recognized as a finalist in the Health and Wellness category. Eko is committed to creating new paradigms for heart disease screening and monitoring through low-cost sensors and innovative applications machine learning algorithms.
Read more in FastCompany.
UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) student Swetha Prabakaran received an honorable mention in the NCWIT Collegiate Awards for her project, Teho. Teho is a new web application and calendar integration program that prompts users to enter data about their mental or emotional state after completing various scheduled activities. NCWIT Collegiate Awards recognize undergraduate and graduate women for their outstanding computing accomplishments.
Learn more about the NWCIT awards.
MA Design Automation, a full-service provider and innovator of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) solutions, today announced a partnership with Berkeley SkyDeck. This partnership provides OrCAD software to SkyDeck startups for use in the design and development of printed circuit board (PCB) electronics within their innovative products..
Read more on TenLinks here.
Last week was the third annual Tech Crunch robotics event at UC Berkeley where amazing conversations with a number of the top names in robotics took place as well as artificial intelligence demos of some incredible robots along with announcement of some exciting news about the future of the category.
Read more on Tech Crunch here.
If you have had a challenge finding office space in Berkeley, you are not alone. This Berkeleyside article highlights the real estate search challenges that local startups have encountered and the City of Berkeley's disappointment that they can't always retain businesses as they grow, even despite the many local incubators and co-working spaces around town.
See the Berkeleyside article.
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