UC Berkeley intellectual property spinouts commercializing innovations to improve the Environment, also known as clean or green technologies.
3C Energy Corporation
The company builds modular systems to capture and convert ambient carbon dioxide to value-added products such as fuels, biopolymers, pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes, commodity chemicals, and biomass.
Atoco
Atoco was created to leverage decades of advancements in reticular chemistry and nanotechnology to fight climate change. The company is tackling the causes of global warming and the resulting water scarcity by developing sustainable and transformational solutions in the
...Read more about AtocoBio-H2
Bio-H2 was founded to commercialize a proprietary photosynthetic hydrogen production process that utilizes microalgal cultures.
Anastasios Melis, Michael Seibert, John Benemann,
...Read more about Bio-H2Ceres, Inc.
Ceres, Inc. produced seeds of genetically modified crops used for biofuel production. The biotech company, based in Thousand Oaks, California, with a subsidiary in Brazil called Ceres Sementes do Brasil, operated from 1996 to 2016, when it was acquired by Land O'Lakes....Read more about Ceres, Inc.
ChemFinity Technologies
ChemFinity Technologies addresses environmental challenges in critical mineral recovery, water purification, and gas separations by creating molecularly selective materials that eliminate pollution and circularize natural resources.
Timeline...Read more about ChemFinity TechnologiesIntropic Materials
Intropic Materials is developing truly compostable plastic and other self-degrading products that can be composted or perfectly recycled. The company combines the performance of proteins with a patented stabilization technology to build better materials that address the world's...Read more about Intropic Materials
Lygos, Inc.
Lygos' technology goes beyond engineering microbes and includes fermentation and purification development. Our goal is to manufacture and sell chemicals. This work has been supported, in part, by over $6.5MM in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of...Read more about Lygos, Inc.
Oswald Green Technologies, Inc.
Oswald Green Technologies, Inc., is an environmental solutions company with a proven carbon-negative technology for reclaiming water, energy, and nutrients from municipal, industrial and agricultural wastewater. The Advanced Integrated Wastewater Pond Systems (AIWPS) technology...Read more about Oswald Green Technologies, Inc.
Perlumi
Manufacturer of bio-derived hydrogen peroxide using synthetic biology intended to make photosynthesis better. The company engineers enzymes that are used instead of traditional chemical catalysts to remove organic solvents during the production of hydrogen peroxide, allowing...Read more about Perlumi
Personal Comfort Systems Inc.
Personal Comfort Systems, Inc. (PCS) was incorporated as a Delaware corporation in July 2014 by cofounders Peter Rumsey and Kurt Herzog. At the same time PCS signed an exclusive license for the patent of a heated and cooled office chair with smart controls and whole...Read more about Personal Comfort Systems Inc.
Picoyune
Picoyune replaces complex equipment with reliable, portable, and easy to use devices.
Their first target? Mercury. The company has developed a miniaturized, low-cost mercury sensor and applying it to personal exposure monitoring. The portable device is a good fit for...Read more about Picoyune
Prolific Machines
Prolific Machines specializes in cell production with a unique manufacturing approach that combats climate change, enables space-food, and makes cell therapy accessible to everyone. The company's photomolecular biology platform leverages safe and effective tools — light,...Read more about Prolific Machines
Quick Flash Technologies
Manufacturer of manually controlled transition lenses intended to protect eyesight. The company's product offers color-changing sunglasses that have lenses which will allow users to adjust the shade of sunglasses with e-
RareTerra, Inc.
RareTerra is developing a one-step environmentally friendly bio-process for selective rare-earth element (REE) extraction, separation, and purification that doesn't rely on harsh acids or high temperatures and pressures. RareTerra’s technology eliminates the costliest and most...Read more about RareTerra, Inc.
Reticular Labs
Developing practical water harvesting technologies to address global water scarcity.
Nikita Hanikel, Steven James Lyle, Hao Lyu, Lac Ha Nguyen, Wentao Xu, Omar Yaghi, Bing ZhangRead more about Reticular Labs
Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates
Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates was founded to commercialize tools that help users develop strong geologic field skills, based on technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor George Brimhall. GeoMapper and GeoLogger enable surface mapping, underground mapping,...Read more about Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates
TerraForma Technologies
TerraForma Technologies develops advanced water and environmental technologies focused on tackling drought and desertification. The company uses dynamic models and technologies to combine a range of innovative agricultural, forestry and water resourcing techniques to convert...Read more about TerraForma Technologies
Travertine Technologies
Travertine partners with mining and fertilizer operations around the world to recharge critical element production with a circular, electrified process. Standard mining methods use megatons of sulfuric acid annually, and dispose of vast amounts of byproducts, such as...Read more about Travertine Technologies
Water Harvesting, Inc
Wireless Industrial Technologies, Inc.
The mission of Wireless Industrial Technologies, Inc. is to apply wireless technology to improve the productivity, energy efficiency, and environmental footprint of heavy industry. The company offers mesh networking, sensors, and model-based control software. Inventor and...Read more about Wireless Industrial Technologies, Inc.