OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS
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TOMORROW, Wed, Oct. 16 - 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Mix it Up' with Berkeley business leaders over Fieldwork craft beer, Donkey & Goat wine & other delicious bites at the Berkeley Chamber's Fall Networking Mixer!
Register to attend.
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Bonneville Labs (626 Bancroft Way Suite A, Berkeley, CA 94710)
Come to Bonneville Labs for a showcase of companies innovating in food technology at the FoodTech Showcase & Oktoberfest gathering. Ryan Bethencourt, CEO of Wild Earth, will kick off the festivities and other Bay Area plant based food companies, including Perfect Day, Ripple Foods, Miyoko's Kitchen, Mission Barns, and Chirps Chips will tell you about their products.
Register Today
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Friday, October 18, 2019
9AM - 1PM: Open House with tours every 30 minutes
10AM-12PM: Recruiting event
Berkeley SkyDeck (2150 Shattuck Avenue, PH Floor Berkeley)
SkyDeck is hosting an open house for all Cal students. Come visit the space, enjoy complimentary coffee & pastries, and meet SkyDeck founders.
RSVP to Attend on October 18
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM PDT
Every month, Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator brings community together to hear from potential mentors, lecturers, investors, partners and startups to ignite serendipitous connections and meaningful interactions.
RSVP for the 2nd Monthly Meetup
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
Berkeley SkyDeck (2150 Shattuck Avenue, PH Floor Berkeley)
SkyDeck's Fund Manager Chon Tang will facilitate an insightful fireside chat with Rebecca Lynn, general partner and co-founder of Canvas Ventures, where she focuses on early-stage venture investments in fintech, digital health and artificial intelligence.
Join the Conversation
Wed, October 23, 2019
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT
CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from academic, industry, and civic leaders. Learn more from Oscar Dubón, Vice Chancellor for Equity & Inclusion and professor of Materials Science & Engineering (MSE) at UC Berkeley.
Register Today
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RESOURCES & DEADLINES
Applications are due TODAY (October 15)
The Westly Prize is offering $40,000 cash prizes to social entrepreneurs under age 28 with novel solutions to community challenges at home or around the world. Innovations must be prototyped and scalable, and the innovators must live, work, or attend school in California, or reside in California but attend school elsewhere.
Learn more and apply here.
The pre-application is due TODAY (October 15)
Food System 6 is building a more equitable and sustainable food and agriculture system by supporting entrepreneurs focused on health, sustainability, and justice. FSG6 supports early-stage for-profit and non-profit entrepreneurs who are tackling food system challenges across the following impact areas: healthy people, vibrant farms, sustainable ecosystems, justice & fairness.
Learn more and apply here.
Applications due October 18, 2019
The I-Corps training is focused on helping early-stage teams who have a fundamental technology, engineering, or business model innovation learn how search for a scalable business model through the Customer Discovery process. Teams are typically composed of three members: the technical lead (hacker), the entrepreneurial lead (hustler) and the mentor (entrepreneurial experience).
Apply for the next Immersive Short Course starting November 4 at UC Berkeley-Haas
Call for Proposals due Friday, October 18, 2019
The Biosciences & Bio-Engineering program supports PIs at UC Berkeley, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Currently this program is
inviting submission of proposals that outline ideas for research and analyses focused on mixotrophy that use non-traditional energy relying on soluble inorganic energy and carbon sources. Annual project funds will be capped at $250,000 each year over a maximum of three years.
Applications due October 31, 2019
The WITI@UC Athena Awards recognize those who embody, encourage, and promote the inclusion of women in technology. Awardees are leaders who inspire others to pursue and persist in technical careers by way of their outstanding contributions, and service and mentorship to foster inclusion in science and technical fields. Nominations are open to all candidates regardless of gender, age, institutional affiliation, and country of residence.
Nominations due October 31, 2019 - Apply Today!
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Activate, which includes the Berkeley Lab's Cyclotron Road program, as well as a similar one in Boston, is now accepting applications for two-year entrepreneurial fellowships. Selected fellows receive a $80K-$110K yearly living stipend, access to world class research facilities, and unparalleled support in moving their ideas from science to product.
Apply by November 6 -- or spread the word.
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 ideas become reality.
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-based Caribou Biosciences was announced a winner of Biocom's Fourth Annual Catalyst Awards. The awards identify accomplished and up-and-coming academics, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate leaders and business advisers who are making their mark on the San Diego, Los Angeles and Bay Area life science industries before reaching their 40th birthday.
Learn more about Caribou and other Bay Area winners
Eko, a Berkeley-based startup best known for creating an electronic stethoscope to monitor your heart rhythm, hopes further research and development will help give its more clinically promoted device a leg up as a leader in the fight against heart disease. The company recently closed on a $20 million round of Series B financing, led by Artis Ventures.
Read about Eko in TechCrunch
Berkeley-based company, Humm, has created a soft patch that sticks to your forehead like a Band-Aid and emits electric micro-pulses aimed at the brain's prefrontal cortex. The Humm patch, which immediately improves your working memory and ability to learn is available for about $5, making it easy for people give it a try. Humm is targeted at people 40-plus who are studying, reading unfamiliar material, or learning new skills.
Learn More about this Memory Stimulating Tech
Spin microscopy for quantum computing, underwater nanoscience for clean tech, and bio-prospected hemp are a few of the novel technologies represented in the Fall 2019 cohort announced by the CITRIS Foundry.
Learn More About the New Tech Cohort
The Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator announced the Fall 2019 Batch of enthusiastic, aspirational blockchain companies. The 15 startups selected were drawn from an application pool of 100+ from around the globe.
Learn More about the New Startups
PitchBook Data released its annual ranking of undergrad programs with the most female startup founder alumni. UC Berkeley ranks third (with 128 founders among its 1,235 overall undergrad alumni startup founders) and is tied for second place with Harvard in terms of the number of startups created by its female undergrad alumni: 128 startups. The number of startups that included female founders has held steady overall at around 15 percent.
Keep in Touch
To submit information or questions about Berkeley Startup Cluster contact: oedmailbox@cityofberkeley.info
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