UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 4–7pm
1 Tower Place South San Francisco, CA 94080
Biocom California invites you to learn from and celebrate some of the life science industry’s top leaders, while furthering allyship and confronting challenges women face in the workplace. The event will feature a panel of female biotech CEOs and an opportunity to network with fellow life science professionals.
Register today.
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Wednesday, Sept. 28, 11am On Zoom
Join this Berkeley Chamber of Commerce workshop to learn how you can make the most of content marketing for your business! Good content marketing can benefit your business in many ways, including: promoting customer loyalty, attracting leads, increasing sales, building brand authority, and saving money.
Register today to attend virtually.
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Thursday, Sept. 29, 3:30–6:30pm
The Rake at Admiral Maltings, Alameda, CA
At Biocom California’s Bay Area Oktoberfest, celebrate the tradition of Munich’s famous annual festival, while enjoying a cold beer, food, and networking!
Register today. (Tickets are free for Biocom California members and $35 for non-members.)
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Wednesday, Oct. 12, 10am On Zoom
The Berkeley Chamber of Commerce invites anyone involved in hiring, promotion, admissions, and/or recruitment to a free workshop to discuss how bias is present in these processes, the inequity that grounds "The Myth of Meritocracy," and how terms like "top talent" can perpetuate the marginalization of BIPOC candidates.
Register today.
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Wednesday, Oct. 12, 4:30–7:30pm
Wareham Development 2600 Tenth St. Berkeley, CA 94710
3rd floor lobby and terrace
Join the Berkeley Startup Cluster for a networking and book signing event with author, marketing executive, Berkeley SkyDeck storytelling advisor, and Haas faculty member David Riemer. David will share insights from his latest book, Get Your Startup Story Straight: The Definitive Storytelling Framework for Innovators and Entrepreneurs.
Register today.
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RESOURCES & DEADLINES
Application deadline: TOMORROW, Thursday, Sept. 15
The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. Sony seeks proposals for information technology, devices, materials, biomedical, and life sciences research projects that could drive new technologies, industries, and the future.
Apply today for an award (up to $150K per year).
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Application deadline: Friday, Sept. 16
Apply today for the chance to compete in the Lam Capital Venture Competition which will be held in-person at UC Berkeley on October 7th. Ten startups will have the chance to compete for a $250,000 SAFE investment from Lam Capital and will get exposure in front of a panel of esteemed investor judges and institutional investors.
Apply today.
Application deadline: Friday, Sept. 16
Applications are open for LAUNCH, University California's leading accelerator focused on transforming promising startups into scalable businesses. Three startups may receive up to $25,000 in non-dilutive funding. To apply to LAUNCH, companies must demonstrate product market-fit and have a UC student, faculty, or alum on their team.
Apply today.
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Registration deadline: Monday, Sept. 19
This 4-day course (Oct. 3, 17, 31 and Nov.14) turns science-minded managers into capable business leaders. The program includes industry-relevant case studies, practical and engaging exercises, downloadable support tools, and a manual designed to personalize the training.
Register today.
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Application deadline: Friday, Sept. 23
AbbVie and Bakar Labs invite entrepreneurial scientists and founders to apply for a 2022 Bakar Labs Golden Ticket. Two Golden Tickets awarded to early-stage startups will provide lab bench and core facilities at Bakar Labs for one year and opportunities to engage with AbbVie scientific and business leaders.
Apply today.
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Application deadline: Friday, Sept. 23
The Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge provides connections, visibility, and up to €100K in equity-free funding to a deep tech startup or project that uses advanced technology to answer a societal or industrial challenge.
Apply today.
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Application deadline: Friday, Sept. 30
Course dates: Oct. 17, 19, and 24
For early-stage Berkeley startups, the Bay Area National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps offers a course to help you identify and refine your value proposition and target customers. This immersive training will help you conduct 15 customer interviews to identify your top customer segment, validate your commercial market, and accelerate finding product-market fit.
Apply today.
Application deadline: Friday, Sept. 30
The ADAPT program invites health technology startups with a minimal viable product to accelerate solutions that address health disparities, while improving community outcomes and efficiencies. ADAPT awardees receive $100K non-dilutive funding and the opportunity to scale innovative technologies with industry partners.
Apply today.
Applications deadline: Monday, Oct. 10
The CITRIS Seed Funding program issues short-term, competitive awards of $40,000–$60,000 per project to advance information technology research and catalyze early work that can benefit industry, the public sector, and society at large. Proposals should engage at least two investigators from different CITRIS campuses.
Read the full RFP and apply today.
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Application deadline: Monday, Oct. 31
The two-year Activate Fellowship (including the Cyclotron Road Fellowship in Berkeley that Activate administers with the Berkeley Lab) provides early-stage science entrepreneurs with funding, startup training, mentorship, and access to a nationwide community of scientists on a mission to scale innovations. Berkeley fellows receive a yearly living stipend of $80,000 to $110,000, health insurance, a relocation stipend, a travel allowance, and $100,000 of research support per project at Berkeley Lab.
Apply today for Cohort 2023.
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Rolling applications
Climate Tech Finance is a first-of-its-kind partnership of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (IBank). Designed to accelerate the development and adoption of technologies that reduce greenhouse gases in the Bay Area, it offers loan guarantees of up to $2.5M or 90 percent to de-risk lending and open up new sources of capital for climate-tech entrepreneurs.
Access resources here.
40 Activate cohort companies are now hiring for more than 180 open positions including:
Check out all the open positions here.
BERKELEY INNOVATORS MAKING NEWS
Berkeley-based company Resvita Bio, a cellular therapies startup based out of Bakar Labs, announced that the FDA granted the Rare Pediatric Disease Designation to RVB-001 to treat Netherton Syndrome, a chronic and life-threatening genetic skin disease.
Read more on PRNewswire.
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Clarity Movement, a Berkeley-based global environmental sensing and data platform company, is the only air quality monitoring solution to provide continuous, real-time localized monitoring and expert services that are affordable, scalable, and calibrated. The Series A+ will support Clarity's growth worldwide and accelerate product development to address climate change.
Read more in EcoBusiness.com and PR Newswire.
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PolySpectra, a company based out of Berkeley’s Bonneville Labs, was awarded $3 million from the US Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Office to advance 3D printed tooling. Together with their project team, polySpectra will work to develop additively manufactured tooling that will accelerate improvements in transportation vehicle fuel efficiency.
Read more on PR News Wire, The Perfect Tech, TCT Magazine, and Fortify.
The fashion industry is notoriously unsustainable, and the indigo blue dye that is widely used to give jeans their iconic look is highly polluting to the environment. Berkeley synthetic bio startup Huue is working to make biosynthetic dyes that are five times less toxic than chemical alternatives.
Read more in the SF Business Times.
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Renegade.bio, a Berkeley biotech company founded in 2020 to administer COVID-19 tests, has developed a proprietary PCR test for the monkeypox virus and has begun administering the tests locally. This test will detect the early fever stage of the virus. The company has a contract with the California Department of Public Health to test monkeypox at its lab.
Read more in SF Business Times.
Novel Farms, a Berkeley-based cultivated meat startup, announced the launch of its marbled cultivated pork loins in August. Producing meat that mimics conventional meat cuts is extremely difficult — Novel Farms is now one of just a handful of companies that has cultivated pork loin that displays the marbling and texture of a real muscle.
Read more in Perishable News and Supermarket Perimeter.
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Krisp, a Berkeley-based startup, sells AI-powered tools that can remove background noise and echo from online meetings, leaving only human voice audible to participants. The company has raised $17.5 million to date.
Read more in Crunchbase and Bollyinside.
A group of biofuel experts led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) took inspiration from an extraordinary antifungal molecule made by Streptomyces bacteria to develop a totally new type of fuel that has projected energy density greater than the most advanced heavy-duty fuels used today, including the rocket fuels used by NASA.
Read more in the Berkeley Lab article.
Check out these podcast episodes by Naresh Sunkara that showcase the effort needed to translate lab research into successful startups.
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Caribou Biosciences. Listen to Dr. Rachel Haurwitz, the co-founder and CEO of Berkeley's Caribou Biosciences, as she explains how she launched the company, took it public, and successfully advanced their first allogeneic CAR-T cell therapy into the clinic.
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Nodexus, Inc. Hear from CEO Karthik Balakrishnan and Chief Strategy Officer Anand Kesavaraju of Nodexus Inc. as they discuss spinning out from UC Berkeley's Department of Mechanical Engineering and how they make biological workflows more efficient.
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Building the Bay Area Life Sciences Startup Ecosystem. Regis Kelly and Doug Crawford talk about establishing QB3 and building the Bay Area life sciences startup ecosystem over the ensuing two decades.
Keep in Touch
To submit information or questions about Berkeley Startup Cluster contact: oedmailbox@cityofberkeley.info
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