UC Berkeley intellectual property spinouts commercializing innovations with funding from SBIR and STTR Grants.
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are highly competitive federal funding programs that encourage domestic small businesses to engage in research and development with the potential for commercialization.
Acacia Biosciences, Inc.
Acacia Biosciences, Inc. was a drug discovery technology company committed to the creation of proprietary assay systems and databases that facilitate the rapid development of biopharmaceutical s and agricultural chemicals. The Genome Reporter Matrix is the first in a series of...Read more about Acacia Biosciences, Inc.
Acrigen Biosciences, Inc.
Acrigin Biosciences is developing Precision Gene Editing Systems to harness the power of CRISPR for use in human therapeutics. Acrigen’s proprietary technology leverages novel αCas and μCas CRISPR gene editors coupled with ErAcrs (engineered anti-CRISPR proteins) to create an...Read more about Acrigen Biosciences, Inc.
Algen Biotechnologies
Algen Biotechnologies is building a next-generation, functional genomics-based platform for the discovery of novel therapeutics for cancers with high unmet need. Algen’s research group focuses on developing and applying novel functional genomics technologies to address...Read more about Algen Biotechnologies
Ambi Robotics
Ambi Robotics offers advanced robot grasping software for logistics and warehouse order fulfillment, allowing robots to grasp a wide variety of objects.
Ambi Robotics grew from the Dexterity Network (Dex-Net) project at UC Berkeley and is led by Dr. Jeff Mahler and...Read more about Ambi Robotics
Ansa Biotechnologies
With synthetic DNA fueling innovation in biological research, therapeutics, diagnostics, and biomanufacturing, there is an urgent need for faster and more accurate DNA synthesis. Currently, DNA is manufactured via a chemical method that has remained essentially unchanged for 35...Read more about Ansa Biotechnologies
Bandwidth10 Inc.
Bandwidth10 was founded to commercialize cutting-edge tunable lasers suited for high-speed and high-resolution sensing in the medical, industrial, automotive, and telecommunication industries. The company brings revolutionary wavelength-tunable Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting...Read more about Bandwidth10 Inc.
Berkeley Yeast
Berkeley Yeast is a startup founded by UC Berkeley scientists, with grant funding from NSF, NIH, and USDA, as well as from venture capital. Berkeley Yeast bioengineers yeast strains that improve fermentation for brewers, winemakers, and beyond. The company uses synthetic...Read more about Berkeley Yeast
BioAmp Diagnostics
BioAmp develops novel, instrument-free screening and diagnostic tools to identify antibiotic-resistant bacteria in patient samples.
BioScale, Inc.
BioScale developed diagnostic solutions that address critical unmet needs in population health and chronic care. An area of focus has been vulnerable populations such as those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The company's...Read more about BioScale, Inc.
C. Light Technologies, Inc.
C. Light Technologies, Inc. is revolutionizing the way we detect, monitor, and treat multiple sclerosis (MS) through the use of a patented, non-invasive, IRB-approved retinal eye-tracker - the tracking scanning laser ophthalmoscope (TSLO) with accompanying machine learning...Read more about C. Light Technologies, Inc.
California Wave Power Tech
CalWave Power Technologies Inc. provides a solution to harness the renewable power of ocean waves to produce electricity and freshwater. CalWave’s patented Wave Energy Converter (WEC) is moored offshore, simple and scalable. WEC operates submerged, allowing it to survive stormy...Read more about California Wave Power Tech
Calyx
Calyx is a materials science company that harnesses biology to provide low cost and highly accurate sensors for real-time detection and analysis of air chemicals in a variety of industries, including safety, healthcare, transportation, and food. The company offers commercial...Read more about Calyx
Caribou Biosciences Inc.
Caribou Biosciences is a clinical-stage CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing transformative therapies for patients with devastating diseases. The company’s genome-editing platform, including its Cas12a chRDNA technology, enables superior...Read more about Caribou Biosciences Inc.
CellASIC Corp.
CellASIC¨ ONIX Microfluidic Platform delivers precise control for live cell analysis experiments by facilitating long-term perfusion cell culture. Cutting-edge microfluidics technology provides an improved cell culture microenvironment, exceptional...Read more about CellASIC Corp.
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 TechnologiesChiron Corporation
Chiron Corporation was an American biotechnology company engaged in biopharmaceuticals, vaccines and blood testing.
Chirp Microsystems, Inc.
Chirp Microsystems, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures a line of extremely low power, ultrasonic 3D-sensing solutions for consumer electronics, smart homes, industrial automation, and much more. The company's ultrasonic 3D-sensing systems offer...Read more about Chirp Microsystems, Inc.
Correlia Biosystems, Inc.
Correlia Biosystems develops streamlined assay platforms to reduce the time and cost for quantifying proteins for proteomic and pharmaceutical applications. Our research instruments provide multiplexing capabilities for large protein panels including cytokines and post-...Read more about Correlia Biosystems, Inc.
Cortera Neurotechnologies
Cortera Neurotechnologies, Inc. designs medical devices aimed at revolutionizing the treatment of incurable neurological conditions. The company's mission was to deliver innovative products that improve patient care, quality of life and advance neuroscientific research.
Enable Biosciences, Inc.
Enable Biosciences is an early-stage biotech company creating the next generation of tools for predictive medicine, with diagnostics 10,000x more sensitive than previous methods, for earlier detection and treatment of diseases like HIV and type 1 diabetes.
The company...Read more about Enable Biosciences, Inc.
Fluxion Biosciences, Inc.
Fluxion Biosciences provides analytical, live cell analysis tools that facilitate the transformation of research discoveries into new ways to diagnose and treat patients. By characterizing molecular and cellular mechanisms in physiologically relevant micro-environments, Fluxion...Read more about Fluxion Biosciences, Inc.
GenEdit, Inc.
GenEdit develops innovative therapies through targeted delivery of genetic medicines. The GenEdit founders share the vision that recent scientific advancements in engineering CRISPR components and delivery vehicles offer a groundbreaking opportunity to develop safe and
...Read more about GenEdit, Inc.Iaterion
Iaterion is a biopharma company developing novel therapeutics for women's health and diseases. The company develops targeted selective nuclear receptor drugs addressing multiple indications encountered by women and focuses on novel drugs as an alternative to menopausal hormone...Read more about Iaterion
Imprint Energy, Inc.
Imprint Energy aims to reshape the battery landscape. Currently available battery technologies limit the pace of improvement in design and functionality of portable electronic devices. Imprint Energy will address these shortcomings with its breakthrough zinc-
InkSpace Imaging, Inc.
InkSpace Imaging makes comfortable, patient-customized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) surface receive coils, that help MRI operators decrease their costs while increasing patient comfort and the speed of exams.
UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences...Read more about InkSpace Imaging, Inc.
Lucira Health
Lumiphore, Inc.
Lumiphore develops proprietary bi-functional chelators for biomedical applications in drug discovery research, diagnostics, and therapeutics. These include biological detection systems based on luminescent lanthanide complexes (which provide a unique combination of sensitivity...Read more about Lumiphore, Inc.
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.
Magnetic Insight
Magnetic Insight is developing solutions in Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI), a ground-breaking technology that will overcome major deficiencies with current clinical and translational research imaging techniques.
Magnetic Insight Inc. was founded by one of the leading...Read more about Magnetic Insight
Magnetic Tides
Magnetic Tides has developed a new non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) system capable of modulating brain function more reliably and effectively than previously existing NIBS methods.
NIBS is used as a research tool to safely, transiently alter the excitability state...Read more about Magnetic Tides
Mendel Biological Solutions
Mendel Biological Solutions creates new technologies to satisfy the evolving needs of the agricultural industry. The biological research and development team is focused on biological crop solutions that increase crop yield through naturally-derived products. Mendel Biological...Read more about Mendel Biological Solutions
Mercator MedSystems Inc.
Mercator MedSystems, Inc. is a medical technology company focused on the treatment of peripheral artery disease utilizing its catheter-guided, microfluid infusion systems for site-specific, non-systemic delivery of therapeutic agents directly across any blood vessel. The...Read more about Mercator MedSystems Inc.
mFluiDx
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
Microgrid Labs
Microgrid Labs Inc (MGL) is a consulting and software company specializing in microgrids and electrification of transportation.
The company's consulting arm follows a simple and practical approach to planning microgrids and electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The...Read more about Microgrid Labs
Monolets, Inc
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
Mosaic Materials
Mosaic Materials is dedicated to reducing the cost and environmental impact of fossil fuels through the application of proprietary, highly efficient gas separation technologies. The company utilizes porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks to selectively remove...Read more about Mosaic Materials
MuMec, Inc.
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.
NanoNerve
NanoNerve is a medical device company developing tissue engineered implant solutions for neurosurgery. Their mission is to improve patient outcome by providing neurosurgeons with innovative solutions that encourage rapid neural tissue recovery and minimize complications. Using...Read more about NanoNerve
Nanosys
NanoVasc
NanoVasc, Inc. is a medical device company that designs and manufactures biomimetic materials that are non-thrombogenic, durable and demonstrate long-term patency. The Company uses an electrospinning process to manufacture scaffolds in a multitude of shapes and sizes, and then...Read more about NanoVasc
Nexilico
Nexilico, Inc. is an early-stage startup with the mission to advance microbiome and precision medicine research and development by developing next generation of predictive, computational platforms that improve drug design and development as well as therapeutics clinical outcome...Read more about Nexilico
Nodexus, Inc.
Nodexus is commercializing an integrated, “one-click” platform that is low-cost, compact, and provides a simplified workflow to deliver enriched single cells of interest from a wide variety of samples such as stem cells, transfected cell lines, cultured cell lines, dissociated...Read more about Nodexus, Inc.
Nurix
Nurix is pioneering rational drug design in the emerging field of protein regulation by targeting E2 conjugating enzymes and E3 ligases that control the Ubiquitin Proteasome System (UPS).
Regulation of protein stability by the UPS is modulated by the activity of these E2...Read more about Nurix
O.N. Diagnostics, LLC
O.N. Diagnostics was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Mechanical Engineering Tony M. Keaveny based on biomedical engineering research conducted at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. The company's mission is to improve patient outcomes by developing non-invasive and...Read more about O.N. Diagnostics, LLC
Omniox, Inc.
Omniox is an early stage biopharmaceutical company developing new medicines for hypoxic diseases. Hypoxia (oxygen deficiency) impacts cancer, cardiovascular diseases, trauma and many other conditions. The company has engineered an unusually stable oxygen carrier technology (H-...Read more about Omniox, Inc.
Organos, Inc.
Photoswitch Biosciences Inc.
Photoswitch Biosciences was founded in 2010 to advance applications of designed-for-purpose, photo-activated ion channels. It became clear that new tools were needed to advance the research. The therapeutic mission has been separated so that Photoswitch Biosciences today can...Read more about Photoswitch Biosciences Inc.
Pow.Bio
Pow.Bio provides intelligent fermentation services for industrial and synthetic biology. The company's services combine continuous fermentation with advanced control methodology to quickly optimize the fermentation process and deliver high yields at low cost. The scale runs...Read more about Pow.Bio
Protiveris, Inc.
Protiveris Inc. develops and commercializes micro- and nanocantilever systems for academic research, drug discovery and development, bio-defense, protein research, and discovery of new pharmaceuticals and diagnostic applications.
Q-Chem Inc.
Q-Chem, Inc. is a comprehensive ab initio quantum chemistry program to solve computational problems faster, more accurately and less expensively than ever before possible. Q-Chem's capabilities facilitate applications in pharmaceuticals, materials science, biochemistry, and...Read more about Q-Chem Inc.
Scribe Therapeutics
Scribe is focused on the engineering, delivery, and development of next-generation CRISPR molecules to rewrite and repair the underlying cause of genetic disorders. The molecular engineering company was spun out of discoveries in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of...Read more about Scribe Therapeutics
Serinus Labs
Setex Technologies
SMART Pad LLC
SMART Pad is commercializing a completely redesigned Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) pad for the semiconductor industry. CMP processes have not changed much since their introduction by IBM in 1983, consisting of polyurethane polishing pads, polishing slurries with...Read more about SMART Pad LLC
Solidus Biosciences, Inc.
Solidus' mission for the pharmaceutical industry is to improve the process of new drug development by providing proprietary decision-enabling technology to enhance drug safety, efficiency, cost, and, thereby, productivity from investment in new drug research
Sonera Magnetics
Magnetometers are nearly ubiquitous in today’s world, fueling applications as diverse as medical diagnostics and self-driving cars. The most sensitive magnetometers, however, can only operate at extreme temperatures and in a shielded environment that isolates the sensor from...Read more about Sonera Magnetics
Spotlight Therapeutics
Developer of next-generation gene editing therapeutics in a preclinical pipeline. The company creates programmable nucleases that selectively target and edit specific cell populations directly in the body. These engineered nucleases will enable direct intervention in vivo...Read more about Spotlight Therapeutics
suitX
suitX brought advanced accessible exoskeletons to industrial and medical markets with funding from venture capital, industry, and government.
Formerly known as U.S. Bionics.
Acquired by Ottobock in 2021.
Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Sunesis is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and future commercialization of new oncology therapeutics for the treatment of hematologic and solid tumor cancers. Sunesis has built an experienced cancer drug development organization committed to improving the...Read more about Sunesis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Synvivia, Inc.
Synvivia is a synthetic biology company that optimizes cell behavior for gene therapy manufacturing, providing a practical solution for genetically encoded biocontainment. The company is building genetically encoded biocontainment technologies that will enable the widespread...Read more about Synvivia, Inc.
Thuris Corporation
Thuris Corporation was a biopharmaceutical company focused on medical device solutions to aid in drug development and diagnosis of central nervous system (CNS) disorders including mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Thuris was also developing pharmaceuticals for...Read more about Thuris Corporation
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
Tularik Inc.
Tularik, Inc. engages in the discovery and development of orally available medicines that act through the regulation of gene expression. The company’s drugs include T67, T607, T131, T71, and T487. The T67 is an anti-cancer drug. The T607 would be used for treating gastric...Read more about Tularik Inc.
Valitor Inc.
Valitor, Inc. has developed novel methods of modifying therapeutic proteins to achieve substantial control over their pharmacokinetics, target specificity, and bioactivity. The company's technology platform can be broadly applied to improve the pharmacological properties of...Read more about Valitor Inc.
Ventria Biosciences (formerly known as Applied Phytologics Inc.)
Ventria Bioscience is a privately held biopharmaceutical company with a product pipeline enabled by ExpressTec. ExpressTec is a patented, plant-based recombinant protein manufacturing technology that delivers a ten-fold higher recombinant protein yield than other plant-based...Read more about Ventria Biosciences (formerly known as Applied Phytologics 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.
Xenometrix, Inc.
Xip Diagnostics
Xip Diagnostics develops analytical solutions that advance human and animal health at the point of need through in-house product development and industry-leading collaborations.
The company's disposable blood analyzers wirelessly upload lab-quality clinical measurements...Read more about Xip Diagnostics
YourChoice Therapeutics
YourChoice Therapeutics is revolutionizing birth control options for women and men by developing hormone-free contraceptives and bringing them to market. Our technology is the result of a decade of research at the University of California, Berkeley and has been published in...Read more about YourChoice Therapeutics