UPCOMING EVENTS
June 19, 2019 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology 2227 Piedmont Avenue Berkeley, CA 94720
Berkeley is a thriving ecosystem for both blockchain and venture investment. Since many in these communities don't know each other, why not bring them together?
Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) invites blockchain investors, entrepreneurs and enterprise leaders to attend a roundtable discussion where participants can get to know each other and discuss their respective roles in Berkeley's blockchain ecosystem.
Register here to participate.
June 26, 2019 5:00- 8:00 PM
glassybaby Berkeley 745 Heinz Ave, Berkeley
July 15/17/22, 2019 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM (Registration required by 06/28)
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 June 28, see Lean LaunchPad Training by Bay Area I-Corps or contact Eugene Noh.
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The Berkeley Chamber created the Visionary Awards in 2013 to celebrate people with the imagination and persistence to innovate in the city of Berkeley. These enterprise leaders represent the latest generation of Berkeleyans working to change the world.
Save the date for the Berkeley Visionary Awards on Sept 16, 2019.
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RESOURCES & DEADLINES
SBA is seeking to identify the nation's most innovative and promising small business accelerators and incubators that work with high tech entrepreneurs that are potential SBIR or STTR program applicants. These accelerators and incubators help entrepreneurs speed the launch, growth, and scale of their businesses and, ultimately, the creation of jobs. This is a prize competition and not a grant. The submission period for entries begins June 10 and ends June 20.
Apply here before June 20.
Devising plans for a startup? Looking for help and support? CITRIS Foundry provides entrepreneurs and innovators with targeted resources to translate their frontier science, research, and technology into impact. A call for applications is now open at the newly relaunched CITRIS Foundry innovation incubator.
Learn more about the program and services for faculty, student, and alumni entrepreneurs and innovators. Apply by August 1, 2019!
Cyclotron Road, a two-year fellowship program for entrepreneurial scientists and engineers who are working toward commercializing an energy- or microelectronics-related research advance, will hold webinars throughout the summer for those interested in applying to the program this fall (Applications will open in October). Fellows receive access to the Berkeley Lab, a network of investors and scientific collaborators, mentorship and research funds.
Sign up for a webinar (on June 18; July 23; Aug. 20; Sept. 17) here to learn more or email MC O'Connor if you have a suggestion for a future fellow.
BerkeleyBase is the definitive public database of UC Berkeley-incubated startups created by Ruochen Huang, a Research Fellow at Startup@BerkeleyLaw.
Based on the BerkeleyBase data, Startup@BerkeleyLaw released The Startup and Venture Capital Trends Report in August 2018 to provide a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the startup ecosystem at the University of California, Berkeley.
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
UC Berkeley blows other public universities out of the water when it comes to graduating startup founders who have raised $1 million or more. Perhaps due to its exceptional STEM educational programs and proximity to the venture capital-rich San Francisco Bay Area, Cal has produced nearly three times the number of funded founders (240) as has UCLA (the runner-up).
Read "Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders?" in TechCrunch.
If you work remotely and don’t want to log more hours at your neighborhood coffee shop, Codi connects you with another local option: your neighbor’s living room. Launched in Berkeley, the platform turns apartments and houses into temporary, affordable coworking spaces during the day. Codi recently raised a Seed Round co-led by Coatue and NfX and will fully launch in the Bay Area in the coming months before expanding to other cities
See the Fast Company article for more.
Emilie Mazzacurati, founder and CEO of the Berkeley-based climate data firm Four Twenty Seven, spoke to Marketplace Tech's Molly Wood about how her company translates climate data into actionable information for businesses and helps them determine how to prepare for the risks that will result from extreme weather in the years ahead.
Listen to (or read) the Marketplace Tech segment here.
Berkeley-based Newomics Inc., a commercial-stage biotechnology company that sells and develops mass spectrometry products, services and diagnostics, announced a co-marketing agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific earlier this month. The companies will engage in joint marketing of multinozzle emitters from Newomics and liquid chromatography (LC) and mass spectrometry (MS) systems from Thermo Fisher.
Read more about the partnership in BusinessWire.
Of the 12 key players in the growing delivery robots industry, nine are headquartered in the Bay Area. With 10 employees, Kiwi Campus is based in Berkeley and can make 1.5 deliveries per hour on average. CEO Felipe Chavez hopes this number will increase to 2.5 by early next year.
Read more about Bay Area robots offering delivery in the San Francisco Business Times.
Last month, Berkeley-based Sensys Networks, Inc., the world’s leading provider of integrated wireless traffic data systems for Smart Cities, announced their merger with TagMaster, a global provider of sensor-based solutions in traffic, tolling, parking and rail. TagMaster is a Swedish technology company that designs and markets advanced sensor-based systems and solutions based on radio and vision technology (RFID, Radar and ANPR) for demanding environments.
Read more about the merger in BusinessWire.
Keep in Touch
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