Entrepreneurship

The Jawaharlal sisters appearing on "Shark Tank"

Pi-Bot inventors score $200,000 deal on ‘Shark Tank’

11/02/15 — Berkeley Engineering senior Lavanya Jawaharlal and her sister Melissa, both mechanical engineers, walked away from TV's investment reality show “Shark Tank” with a $200,000 deal that they will put toward taking their STEM robotics education concept nationwide.

New executive education programs focus on promoting tech innovation

10/14/15 — Two new executive education programs coming this year from Berkeley Engineering aim to help technology-dependent companies create a work culture that encourages continued innovation.

EECS-linked startups boost entrepreneurship ranking

09/30/15 — With 118 startups under their collective belt, faculty and alumni in EECS have contributed heavily to UC Berkeley's #2 ranking for VC-backed undergraduate entrepreneurs and companies, as measured by the venture-capital research firm PitchBook.

Eko co-founders Jason Bellet, CEO Connor Landgraf and Tyler Crouch

Stethoscope meets smartphone and the heart knows it’s right

09/08/15 LA Times — The Eko Core digital stethoscope, developed by a trio of Berkeley alumni, aims to bring auscultation - the ancient medical practice of listening to a patient's heartbeat - squarely into the 21st century. It was cleared for sale in the U.S. this month.

Improving the work of silkworms and spiders, with yeast

07/23/15 — Where some people see mere cobwebs, David Breslauer sees nature's most robust fiber. Now the bioengineering Ph.D.'s company, Bolt Threads, has learned how to mimic spider silk in the lab - without spiders.

VC firm to invest $250,000 in winner of campus startup contest

07/07/15 — Pejman Mar Ventures, known for investing in Stanford University startups, is on the hunt for UC Berkeley entrepreneurs, and has created a new $250,000 competition to find one.

Searching for the next Stanford: Silicon Valley turns its eyes to Berkeley

05/07/15 re/code — With loads of student-run companies and early access to ideas and research, UC Berkeley is becoming an increasingly attractive option for venture capital investors.

Ting Chuk, Dean Sastry and Pantas Sutardja

Dean’s word: At the intersection of design and entrepreneurship

05/01/15 — The college is building an innovation ecosystem to design, build and launch high-impact ventures.

Super-cute robot bug gets $1.4M to teach kids to code

04/27/15 Venture Beat — Dash Robotics, which began as a research project at Berkeley Engineering and CITRIS, has secured $1.4 million in seed funding to help refine and market its small bio-inspired origami robots that teach kids how to program while they play.

Gift from Pantas Sutardja and Ting Chuk renames the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology

04/22/15 — Berkeley Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology celebrated its 10-year anniversary by announcing a generous gift from Pantas Sutardja and Ting Chuk that will help hundreds more students invent products, start companies and chart their course as industry innovators.

Buddy-movie tech entrepreneurs

04/13/15 — From college classmates to tech entrepreneurs, EECS alums endure the dramatic stumbles of the startup script and are now ready for prime time.

EECS professor Ana Claidia Arias demonstrates her wearable MRI wrap to Barbara Bakar and Arnold Silverman.

Bakar Fellows show off their discoveries to tech entrepreneurship world

03/25/15 — Sixteen UC Berkeley faculty, including many Berkeley Engineers, who are conducting commercially promising research supported by the Bakar Fellows Program traveled to San Francisco to deepen their connections with prominent venture capital firms, industry partners and entrepreneurs.

SkyDeck accepting spring 2015 applications

02/26/15 — SkyDeck, the startup accelerator in downtown Berkeley co-sponsored by the College of Engineering, is accepting applications for their spring 2015 session. All entrepreneurs affiliated with UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab or UCSF are encouraged to apply; the deadline is March 31.

Berkeley, Stanford excel at producing VC-backed entrepreneurs

02/05/15 Tech Cocktail — A report from the research firm PitchBook shows that Stanford and UC Berkeley rank first and second, respectively, in producing successful entrepreneurs with venture capital backing.

The unknown start-up that built Google’s first self-driving car

11/20/14 IEEE Spectrum — The story behind Google's innovative self-driving car and the revolutionary Street View camera technology that preceded begins with 510 Systems, a tiny Berkeley start-up launched by IEOR grad (and later Google engineer) Anthony Levandowski and fellow Berkeley Engineering student Bryon Majusiak.

Smart spoons

11/01/14 — Mechanical engineering grad Anupam Pathak started a company called Lift Labs that creates devices to assist people with Parkinson's and other tremor-related diseases.

Measuring DNA health

11/01/14 — Nuclear engineering grad Sylvain Costes and bioengineering grad have created an at-home kit that can measure DNA damage from blood samples.

Devices: Portable spirometer

10/30/14 — Charvi Shetty is the CEO and founder of KNOX Medical Diagnostics, a company specializing in cloud-connected personalized care for asthmatics. With the support of the Foundry@CITRIS, she is currently working on building a better asthma-monitoring device.

Bakar Fellow Michel Maharbiz of EECS explaining neural dust

Bakar research fellows make their case in Silicon Valley

09/09/14 — Sixteen Bakar Fellows, including several Berkeley Engineering faculty members, recently presented their research ideas to a a packed room of potential investors on Sand Hill Road.

Berkeley students launch health tech incubator

09/05/14 Daily Californian — A group of UC Berkeley students, led by co-founders Taner Dagdelen and Zachary Zeleznick, both bioengineering juniors, have launched what they call the first-ever student-run health tech incubator.