UPCOMING EVENTS
OED presented at the June 2 Planning Commission meeting about the 'State of Research & Development (R&D) industries in Berkeley' as part of a discussion on the City Council referral to amend the City's definition of R&D for zoning purposes.
Download the presentation or read the staff report to learn how R&D industries support the Berkeley economy and stay tuned for the date of the City's public hearing on this topic.
RESOURCES & DEADLINES
Application deadline: Friday, June 25, 2021 at 5pm
Bakar Labs, the new incubator at UC Berkeley's Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, will hold up to 80 companies exploring new technologies in bioscience and related areas. The first tenants will arrive in late fall, and two will be awarded a "Golden Ticket"-- a program, sponsored by AbbVie, that pays for lab and desk space for a year, along with access to core facilities, for early-stage companies developing novel, transformational therapies for oncology, or autoimmune, neurodegenerative, or ophthalmologic disease.
Bio startups should apply now for the 2021 cycle.
Application deadline: Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Are you a Cal student, alumni, or faculty and are looking for the right accelerator to take your startup to the next level? Founded and run by Cal alumni, The House Accelerator will provide you with personalized guidance and investment up to $250,000. Instead of supporting dozens or more startups in a batch, The House Accelerator will focus on just a few startups at a time to offer a more personalized hands-on approach.
Apply now to accelerate #inTheHouse.
Application deadline: Friday, July 2, 2021
Online classes are July 19, 21, & 26 from 6:00-9:00pm PT
The Bay Area Regional I-Corps Node offers a one-week course based on Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad (Business Model Canvas + Customer Discovery). The three evening sessions will teach you to identify and refine your Value Propositions and Customer Segments, which are essential to de-risking your idea and achieving product-market fit. Outside of class, you'll do at least 15 interviews with potential customers as part of the customer discovery process. Teams that complete this course with instructor endorsement may qualify for the National I-Corps program which includes a $30k or $50k grant for customer discovery.
Apply now. If you have any questions, contact wdavid@berkeley.edu.
Application deadline: Saturday, July 31, 2021 at midnight
Applications are now open to join the CITRIS Foundry Innovation Incubator for Fall 2021! Uniquely situated across multiple UC campuses, the CITRIS Foundry is ideally positioned to help the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs bridge the gap from lab to market and actualize rigorous, validated solutions to society’s biggest challenges. The Foundry offers guidance, education, and a homebase to de-risk entrepreneurship for early-stage founders, especially supporting those who have been historically marginalized, allowing innovators to confidently identify pathways to success and reach the next stage of development and investment for their emerging technology venture.
Apply before the July 31 deadline.
The Berkeley Research Infrastructure Commons (RIC) comprises campus research facilities and services that are available for shared use by industry and academia (formerly known as the SSUFIE program). Small business founders can explore the RIC-t program, an extension of UC Berkeley RIC capabilities, which enables early stage (pre-product sales) startup companies affiliated with UC Berkeley to temporarily conduct new product R&D in faculty labs.
Learn more.
BERKELEY INNOVATORS MAKING NEWS
In late May, UC Berkeley virtually launched the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, an initiative aiming to empower budding entrepreneurs in the East Bay and campus alike. Opening its doors in the fall, the project will include Bakar Labs, an incubator that will be providing space to promising startups in the STEM field. The initiative is being developed in collaboration with QB3, a state institute designed to support research and entrepreneurship.
Read more in The Daily Californian.
The City of Berkeley Zoning Adjustments Board unanimously approved the construction of a major R&D development by Aquatic Park. Formally known as Berkeley Commons and located at 600 Addison St., the project (developed by LB2 and Lane Partners) will include two buildings, totaling 462,000 square feet, that will provide R&D, office, warehouse and manufacturing space for East Bay life science and biotech companies.
Read more about the planned facility in Berkeleyside.
24 fellows (18 startups) were selected from a pipeline of 400 applicants that included talent from 30 countries and 32 U.S. states, bringing a wealth of scientific knowledge and ambition. Half of them are Berkeley-based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Cyclotron Road Division including: Antonio Baclig Kezi Cheng, Peter Christensen, Jae Cho Sam Green, Ahmet Ozcan, Aaron Hall, Ben Jenett, Fatma Kaplan, Karl Cameron Schiller, David Mackanic and Jimmy Rojas.
Read more about the new fellows here.
UC Berkeley is offering everyone the opportunity to purchase nonfungible tokens (NFTs) for the patent disclosures at the heart of two Nobel Prize-winning inventions from the university’s research labs: CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and cancer immunotherapy. The proceeds of the auction in ETH (a blockchain network that uses ether for transactions) will fund education and innovative research at UC Berkeley, including work in the campus’s blockchain hub, Blockchain at Berkeley.
Follow the story on UC Berkeley's news page.
Keep in Touch
To submit information or questions about Berkeley Startup Cluster contact: oedmailbox@cityofberkeley.info
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