UPCOMING EVENTS
TOMORROW, Tuesday, February 7, 12:30-1:30pm
Bonneville Labs (626 Bancroft Way, Suite A)
The Berkeley Startup Cluster is partnering with CoDesign to host a lunchtime discussion for startups to help them navigate challenges associated with designing and building the optimal lab or office space. Attendees will learn how to “de-risk” projects, understand options when up against aggressive timelines and deadlines, incorporate trends in lab design (flexibility, modularity, sustainability), and identify common risks & pitfalls to avoid.
Register to attend tomorrow's free lunch event.
TOMORROW, February 7, 2-4pm
UC Berkeley MLK Student Union
Looking to recruit or network with talented engineers? Join the Fung Institute for a special in-person Tech Networking Event tomorrow.
This is a great opportunity for graduate students seeking internships and full-time careers to meet potential employers in areas such as data science, user experience design, product management, engineering, and more. It is also a chance for tech and engineering firms to recruit top talent!
Register to attend tomorrow.
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Thursday, March 2 Virtual
Join EDGE in Tech, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, and Berkeley Engineering for Smarter Tech for a Resilient Future, a virtual symposium highlighting the experiences of experts using emerging technologies to advance innovation for more sustainable infrastructure. The event will feature professionals who are pioneering new approaches to intelligent transportation networks, healthy indoor environments, aviation infrastructure and next-generation agriculture.
Register today.
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RESOURCES & DEADLINES
Virtual info session: Thurs, Feb. 9, 9 -10:30 am PT
Cradle to Commerce (C2C), funded by the Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions, is an unprecedented public-private incubator built to accelerate climate technology and equitable entrepreneurship. C2C is now recruiting inventors and diverse entrepreneurs from the public and private sectors to help commercialize national laboratory climate and energy technologies, particularly for buildings, nuclear, smart grid, and renewables. Innovators in the program will be provided with unparalleled scientific and entrepreneurial resources from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as well as 3 other national labs and program partners.
Learn more and and fill out the C2C pre-application or register for the Feb. 9 info session.
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Application deadline: Friday, February 10
Online course times: February 27, March 1, March 6 from 5-8pm PST
The Bay Area National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps offers a course to help early stage startups identify and refine their 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, February 10 at 11:59pm
The ICA Fund is recruiting its next cohorts for two programs.
The Accelerator is ICA's flagship, 14-week program for established, growth-stage companies earning ~$500K or more in annual revenue. Qualifying participants are eligible for up to $750K in investment from ICA following completion.
The Lab is an 8-week program for high-potential, seed-stage companies earning revenue and includes up to $50K in investment.
Learn more and apply today!
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Address: 2233 4th St.
Real estate brokerage firm Cresa is leasing the entire floor of an industrial building in southwest Berkeley. The space is ideal for biotech or foodtech companies.
Contact the brokers today!
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Application deadline: Friday, February 17
Selected startups will receive $200,000 in investment from the SkyDeck Fund, access to 500+ extraordinary advisors/mentors, a global network of 510,000 Berkeley alumni, and the opportunity to pitch to 850+ Silicon Valley investors at SkyDeck’s Demo Day. Eligible startups must have a founder who is affiliated with any of the 10 University of California campuses OR be an unaffiliated international founder looking to bring their business to the US.
Apply today.
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Application deadline: Friday, February 17
CSL is a leading global biotech company that develops and delivers innovative biotherapies to help people live full lives despite having life threatening medical conditions. CSL's Research Acceleration Initiative aims to fast-track discovery of innovative biotherapies. Successful applicants will receive up to $400K over 2 years.
Apply to the program.
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Application deadline: Friday, March 3
StopWaste is offering grants with a total of $1.1 million available in funding for projects in six categories. The focus is on innovative approaches to preventing waste in Alameda County and supporting local communities. Businesses, nonprofits, and institutions are eligible for funding, unless noted otherwise.
Apply today.
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Companies can use state-of-the-art instruments and services on the UC Berkeley campus, for a fee, through the Berkeley Research Infrastructure Commons (Berkeley RIC). The Berkeley RIC serves startups as well as SMB and large companies. Berkeley RIC facilities include but are not limited to: nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), DNA sequencing and genomics, single crystal and powder x-ray crystallographic analysis, elemental analysis, mass spectrometry, and wet lab benches.
Get in touch today.
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BERKELEY INNOVATORS MAKING NEWS
The Berkeley-based tech firm, Twelve — named for the carbon isotope that makes up the vast majority of carbon on earth — was started in 2015 by Etosha Cave and is exploring various applications for its technology which splits carbon dioxide and water into syngas to be used for fuels and other manufacturing applications. Cave is particularly excited about the incentives offered by the Inflation Reduction Act and the team will soon be setting up an additional research and development facility in Alameda.
Read more in Politico and the San Francisco Business Times.
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Berkeley-based Harvest Thermal Home is addressing the final frontier for decarbonizing our lives: heating and hot water. The Harvest Thermal system requires only one heat pump the size of a suitcase which can run in the middle of the day and store the energy it draws from the grid in a thermal battery. Harvest Thermal has been found to cut carbon emissions by 90% or more compared to gas equipment and by 50% compared to standard heat pump setups.
Read more in Berkeleyside.
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Berkeley startup Capture6 has raised $6.255 million to develop its novel approach to capturing and sequestering carbon. The company's technology uses a strong base to turn CO2 in the atmosphere into minerals and is able to use its technology in combination with other industrial processes, such as water desalination plants.
Read more in The Business Journals' Bay Area Inno.
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Berkeley-based Climax Foods, headed up by former SpaceX scientist Dr. Oliver Zahn, is recreating the most desired animal foods using plants, starting with four creamy vegan cheeses. The startup has thus far raised $27 million to fund its mission of recreating the world’s most desired animal foods by unlocking what it calls a “smarter path from plants to food.”
Read more in VegNews.
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Berkeley-based startup Visolis recently closed a seed funding round to further build out the company's platform for making carbon-negative high-performance materials, jet fuels, and specialty chemicals. The company is graduate of the Activate fellowship program that works in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Cyclotron Road and will use a combo of biology and chemistry to turn molecules into a range of different products.
Read more in Forbes.
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Biocom California, the association representing the California life science industry, recently released a new report showing California’s life science industry provides more than 400,000 jobs in the state and generates $376 billion in total economic output.
Read more in Biocom's press release and in Business Wire.
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Keep in Touch
To submit information or questions about Berkeley Startup Cluster contact: oedmailbox@cityofberkeley.info
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