UPCOMING EVENTS
Monday, Sept 16, 2019 5:00 – 7:30 PM
Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse // 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA 94704
The 2019 winners have been announced!
Join the Berkeley Chamber, City of Berkeley, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, and innovators from across the region to honor Berkeley entrepreneurs who strive to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres from ACT Catering and sips from Fieldwork Brewing and Mt. Beautiful Winery while celebrating Berkeley as a wellspring of innovation with conscience.
Learn more and get your tickets here. Use promo code "ChamberFriend" to receive the Chamber member price of $15 per ticket.
RESOURCES & DEADLINES
The East Bay Innovation Awards (iAwards) is the premiere program of its kind that celebrates and honors the extraordinary companies and organizations that contribute to East Bay innovation.
This year’s nomination areas will include Advanced Manufacturing, Arts & Culture, Built Environment, Community Impact, Education, Engineering & Design, Food, Health/Life Sciences, Sustainability and Technology.
Nominate companies, organizations and individuals that should be recognized for their innovative work today! (The 2020 Innovation Awards nomination period closes October 25, 2019. A sample nomination form is available on the East Bay EDA website so you can review the questions before submitting the official form.)
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. Fellows receive access to the Berkeley Lab, a network of investors and scientific collaborators, mentorship and research funds.
Sign up for a webinar on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at 1pm to learn more or email MC O'Connor if you have a suggestion for a future fellow. (Applications will open in October.)
Oct 7, 9, 14 6:00 – 9:00pm
Haas School of Business
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.
Learn more and apply here by Sept. 20. If you have any questions, contact Eugene Noh at eugenenoh@berkeley.edu.
The 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize competition recognizes students at any U.S. college or university who have tested prototypes of technology-based inventions in healthcare, food/water, and agriculture, transportation and mobility, and consumer devices. All applicants must be full-time, matriculated, degree-seeking students in the spring semester of 2020 at any U.S. college or university to be eligible.
Applications are now open and due by September 27, 2019. Learn more and apply here.
Open to all social enterprises focused on helping people with disabilities! The Northeast Arc is hosting the 3rd annual Arc Tank on Tuesday, November 19. In the past two years, they have awarded over $400,000 for ideas that will positively impact how disability services are offered. This year, the Arc Tank is awarding up to $300,000 for bold ideas.
Applications are due by October 4, 2019. Learn more and apply here.
The Startup Law Initiative at Berkeley Law (SLI), an initiative of the University of California, offers free incorporation services to entrepreneurs. SLI’s services allow Bay Area founders to overcome costly barriers to conducting business. Founders will work with Berkeley Law students and attorneys from top Silicon Valley law firms to make their idea a reality through the business formation process.
Learn more and fill out the application form here. (SLI is accepting applications on a rolling basis for entrepreneurs looking to incorporate their business this fall.)
LOCAL ENTREPRENEURS MAKING NEWS
Berkeley’s Memphis Meats is a member of the new class of startups, many of them in East Bay, making lab-grown meats. Memphis Meats was recently featured in an AP article that outlines the challenges and promise of this burgeoning industry.
Learn more about Memphis Meats in The Washington Times.
Biocom has added Judy Chou, Ph.D., senior vice president and global head of biotech/Berkeley site head of Bayer, to its Board of Directors. Dr. Chou received the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Business Award in 2018 and has achieved significant milestones in the biotech industry.
Learn more about Biocom’s new board appointees in the Valdosta Daily Times.
Entrepreneurs are using science, in addition to taste, to bring their products to market. UC Berkeley Professor Ricardo San Martin leads a new program that explains how students can create meat and seafood alternatives. Meanwhile, West Berkeley-based ReGrained has designed a way to avoid food waste by reusing, or upcycling, spent grains into other foods.
Read more in The New York Times.
Both Fieldwork Brewing Company (#604) and IPfolio (#834) were listed in Inc. magazine's annual guide to the 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S.
See the article on Patch.com.
Seven UC Berkeley faculty scientists with novel ideas and an entrepreneurial spirit have been named to the 2019-20 cohort of Bakar Fellows, an honor that gives winners the money and time to translate their laboratory breakthroughs into market-ready technologies. The awards foster a culture that keeps the campus at the top nationwide in terms of venture capital-funded startups and women-led venture capital-backed startups.
Learn more in the Berkeley News.
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