BSAC-Affiliated Startup

UC Berkeley intellectual property spinouts based on discoveries made in the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, an interdisciplinary engineering consortium designed to enable commercially-relevant, pre-competitive research through collaboration and sustained partnership with industry.  

Discera Inc.

Brief Description

Discera develops and markets micro-electrical mechanical system-based timing solutions for consumer, enterprise, industrial, and communication markets. The company offers timing and clock oscillators, including differential, standard, high stability high temp,

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Elon Therapeutics, Inc

Brief Description

Developing a gel pill to painlessly spray a vaccine into the cheek and reach cells in the underlying tissue to trigger a mucosal immune response.

Timeline 2015. Company founded Inventors

Kiana Aran, Kunwoo Lee, Dorian Liepmann, Niren Murthy, Jacobo...Read more about Elon Therapeutics, Inc

Harmonic Devices, Inc.

Brief Description

Developer of Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) contour mode resonator technology - small electromechanical structures that vibrate at high frequencies - for filtering and clock synthesis. MEMS resonators ...Read more about Harmonic Devices, Inc.

Iota Biosciences

Brief Description

Established in 2017, iota Biosciences was formed with a vision to change how the world monitors and treats disease. Building on award-winning 'neural dust' technology invented at the University of California, Berkeley, we are building a platform for the future of...Read more about Iota Biosciences

Kryptos Biotechnologies

Brief Description

Developer of molecular diagnostic software designed for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. The company's platform develops a point-of-care, ultrafast photonic polymerase chain reaction that can create a fast photothermal heating plasmonic thin film by a light-emitting diode...Read more about Kryptos Biotechnologies

LuxDx, Inc.

Brief Description

A mobile molecular diagnostics system that leverages efficient and dependable blood sampling, automated sample preparation, rapid optical detection of multi-analyte nucleic acids and proteins, and user-friendly systems integration with wireless communication. The system...Read more about LuxDx, Inc.

mFluiDx

Brief Description

mFluiDx is aiming to develop the world’s lowest cost, automated point-of-care DNA diagnostic assay for small clinics. In small clinics, such as primary care out-patient clinics, disease diagnosis is typically done by observing symptoms or using paper-strip antibody tests....Read more about mFluiDx

Monolets, Inc

Brief Description

MonoLets, Inc. is a systems company developing a wireless sensor network for the Internet of Things. The company builds the network with the lowest power System-on-Chip (SoC) hardware platform that can be operated from harvested energy requiring no external

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MuMec, Inc.

Brief Description

MuMec builds wireless transceiver technologies that drastically reduce power consumption for use with Bluetooth LE (BLE) and LoRa/Sigfox protocols. Founded by researchers from UC Berkeley, MuMec integrates Radio Frequency MEMS technology with CMOS design, offering a 10-100x...Read more about MuMec, Inc.

Organos, Inc.

Brief Description
Developer of cardiac micro physiological systems designed to offer three-dimensional (3D) human cardiac tissue models for advanced analysis. The company's data science ecosystem is used to illuminate the effects of compounds on human cardiac tissue, ranging from acute...Read more about Organos, Inc.

PhenomeX

Brief Description

PhenomeX empowered Digital Cell Biology by combining bioscience, technology and information in unique new ways to accelerate science. The platforms, assays and services, biologists can move faster and more efficiently to meet the demands for cell based processes in...Read more about PhenomeX

Serinus Labs

Brief Description
Serinus Labs is the world`s first manufacturer of integrated silicon gas sensors. Enabled by cutting-edge nanotechnology, Serinus Labs specializes in providing custom solutions for existing and emerging gas sensor markets such as in industrial health and safety, automotive,...Read more about Serinus Labs

Silicon Clocks, Inc.

Brief Description

Headquartered in Fremont, CA, Silicon Clocks was founded in 2006 to develop high performance semiconductor timing and sensor designs and its patented CMEMS(TM) technology. Silicon Clocks was backed by leading venture investors including Tallwood Venture Capital, Charles

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Tsingpo Tech, LLC

Brief Description

Tsingpo Tech is developing a technology invented at UC Berkeley for 3-dimensional chemical sensing on 2-dimensional surfaces.

Timeline
2018. Company founded
Inventors

Takeshi Hayasaka, Liwei Lin, YuMeng (Simon) LiuRead more about Tsingpo Tech, LLC