On June 14th, Hustle Hunters and the Berkeley Startup Cluster collaborated to host an interactive workshop at Bonneville Labs in West Berkeley. Nikki Adamson, CEO and Founder of Hustle Hunters, led a group of leaders responsible for hiring decisions through a framework for identifying the soft skills and qualities they seek for new hires. Attendees gained alignment on what they need in their critical foundational teams and learned how to define critical skills such as "ambition" in terms that all team members understand.
To learn more about how to avoid early stage mis-hires, check out the Hustle Hunters podcast and blog posts.
The two-year Activate Fellowship provides early-stage science entrepreneurs with funding, technical resources, and unparalleled support from a network of scientists, engineers, technologists, and fellow entrepreneurs at the Berkeley Lab and beyond.
Monday July 24, 2023 ⋅ 11:45 am – 1 pm ZINO 2086 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704
Join the Better Bosses Brunch Club of Berkeley to sit with other business leaders who are open to sharing their knowledge and experience. Come ready to reflect on current challenges, swap stories of how you might work through them, and notice how, in a new context, you see old problems in a new way!
The Berkeley Law Startup Law Initiative offers free incorporation services to entrepreneurs. Founders will work with Berkeley Law students and attorneys from top Silicon Valley law firms to incorporate as a Delaware C-corporation. Entrepreneurs do not need to be located in California or associated with Berkeley to apply or receive services.
The CITRIS Seed Funding program issues short-term, competitive awards to advance information technology research and catalyze early work that can benefit industry, the public sector and society at large. Team-based proposals are invited from principal investigators at University of California (UC) Berkeley, among other UC schools. Awardees embody the university’s public mission and innovative spirit of California, with a focus on interdisciplinary solutions.
Crunchbase News has tallied up which U.S. universities graduate the highest number of recently funded startup founders. This year they saw minimal flux at the top of the list. The leading universities for funded founders are Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, and Harvard.
Berkeley startup KoBold Metals has raised $195 million from investors such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk to accelerate the AI-backed search for critical minerals vital for preventing the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. The company plans on using the new funding to develop copper reserves in Zambia.
Thanks to synthetic biology, engineered microbes can now make everything from carotenoids to human milk oligosaccharides. But the bioeconomy will only take off if the precision fermentation process can be made more efficient, says Berkeley-based startup Pow.bio.
Welcoming its ninth cohort and with support from the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Activate Berkeley Community continues its legacy of hosting fellows pushing the boundaries across a wide range of technology areas, with most of them embedding at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Cyclotron Road program—where Activate’s entrepreneurial fellowship model originated.
Spext (SkyDeck Cohort Batch 9) is a powerful audio editor that makes audio story creation easy. They’ve launched the Youtube Summarizer, a free-to-use tool that helps users save time by providing summaries and key takeaways of long videos.
The UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute Workforce Innovation Program has returned for its second year to connect UC students to eight-week internships that provide hands-on career experience in five key technology sectors: aviation, climate and energy, digital health, robotics, and semiconductors.
Additionally, CITRIS has launched the CITRIS Innovation Hub, a centralized program to help UC students and academic, corporate and governmental visitors advance to the next stage of their innovation journeys.
