UC Berkeley intellectual property spinouts commercializing innovations in Electronic Systems and Components.
Aguru Images, Inc.
Aguru Images, Inc. develops and markets image capture devices. It provides Dome, a spherical imaging device that is used for capturing the shape and reflectance properties of the human face to create computer generated digital doubles; Scope, a compact device that captures...Read more about Aguru Images, Inc.
Alien Technology
Founded in 1994, Alien Technology is a passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) industry pioneer and leading provider of high-quality RFID innovations, technologies, and products. The company has offices in the US, China, Korea, Europe, Brazil, Australia and other parts of...Read more about Alien Technology
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
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.
Bandwidth9, Inc.
Bandwidth9, Inc. manufactured fiber-optic components and modules optimized for metro optical network systems. The company offered Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) and optical Micro-Electro-Mechanical Structure (MEMS) based optical
Berkeley Microinstrument, Inc.
Berkeley MicroInstrument exploited flexural-plate-wave technology to develop sensors and actuators. FPW delay lines make use of ultrasonic waves generated by micromachined membranes on silicon chips, providing high sensitivity to actuators as well as physical and gravimetric...Read more about Berkeley Microinstrument, Inc.
Berkeley Open Arms
Accelerating robotics through low-cost hardware. Berkeley Open Arms manufactured the BLUE robot arm that was developed at UC Berkeley's Robot Learning Lab. BLUE is a low-cost, high-performance robot that is intrinsically safe, developed from the ground up with ever-increasing...Read more about Berkeley Open Arms
Calimetrics, Inc.
In the early 1990s, UC Berkeley biophysics doctoral students Michael O'Neill and Terrence Wong, under the guidance of their professor Allan Bearden, developed a laser measurement innovation that led to the foundation of Calimetrics, Inc. in 1994 and to the subsequent
...Read more about Calimetrics, Inc.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
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.
CNNSuperChip, Inc.
CNNSuperChip was founded to commercialize a supercomputer on a chip, called a cellular neural network, with a parallel analong array processor architecture similar to the retina.
Leon O....Read more about CNNSuperChip, Inc.
Cognitive Wearable Technologies
Cognitive Wearable Technologies developed a minimally obtrusive wearable system that can assess cognitive performance continuously throughout normal life activities by excitation of the peripheral nervous system and detection of the central nervous system response. The...Read more about Cognitive Wearable Technologies
Discera Inc.
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,
...Read more about Discera Inc.Ekso Bionics
Since 2005, Ekso Bionics has used exoskeleton technology to enhance natural abilities and improve quality of life. The exoskeleton industry leader, offering technologies that help those with paralysis to stand up and walk, enhancing worker capabilities globally, and providing...Read more about Ekso Bionics
ElmedTech
Electronics and nanotechnology applications for medical technology.
Timeline 2012. Company founded InventorsBoris Rubinsky, Gregory TroszakRead more about ElmedTech
FLX Micro, Inc.
FLX Micro, Inc. manufactures silicon carbide-based microsensors. The company develops its products through silicon carbide deposition and microfabrication technology platform. Its products are used in various applications, such as automotive, energy, environmental, and...Read more about FLX Micro, Inc.
Grafty, Inc.
Grafty is a Berkeley-originated computer vision startup bringing face detection, tracking, recognition and biometrics solution to mobile platforms to bolster consumer, healthcare, and security industries. Built on extensive experience, Grafty plan to democratize computer vision...Read more about Grafty, Inc.
Harmonic Devices, Inc.
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.
Innovative Guidance Technologies
Automated vehicle control utilizing an intelligent roadway reference system for vehicle lateral guidance and control.
Robert E. Parsons, Wei-Bin ZhangRead more about Innovative Guidance Technologies
Kaiwood Technologies
Functionally integrated microanalytical system for performing fluorescence spectroscopy via fluorescence-excition radiation, typically from an LED, integrated onto a substrate along with a photodetector an an optical filter.
Timeline 2003....Read more about Kaiwood TechnologiesLightstage LLC
Light Stage systems efficiently capture how an actor's face appears when lit from every possible lighting direction. From this captured imagery, specialized algorithms create realistic virtual renditions of the actor in the illumination of any location or set, faithfully...Read more about Lightstage LLC
Luminus Devices, Inc.
For almost two decades, Luminus has worked with the community of light to solve its most challenging problems. For much of its first decade Luminus focused on improving energy efficiency, light output, the quality of light, and longevity, and developing new form factors to...Read more about Luminus Devices, 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
Microreactor Technologies
Developer of miniature bioreactor technology platforms. The company offers improved cell fermentation and cultivation productivity services. It develops and operates Micro-24, fermentation and cell culture system which runs up to 24 simultaneous experiments with independent...Read more about Microreactor Technologies
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
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.
Nanosys
nEye Systems
OmniTact
OmniTact was founded to commercialize a robotic manipulation sensor designed by researchers at UC Berkeley. The sensor uses micro-cameras to detect multi-directional deformations of a gel-based skin. It is designed to be used as a fingertip for robotic manipulation with robotic...Read more about OmniTact
OneD Battery Sciences
In 2013, the company acquired nanowire technologies and Palo Alto R&D activities from Nanosys.
Today, OneD Battery Sciences operates a SiNANODE® pilot production to support the development of advanced electrochemical cells and the initial production
Onix Microsystems, Inc.
OniX Microsystems, Inc. was engaged in the design, development, and supply of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)-based all-optical switching engines for telecommunications equipment suppliers. Its products covered optical switching needs, including network protection...Read more about Onix Microsystems, Inc.
OnWafer Technologies, Inc.
Persistent Efficiency
Persistent Efficiency was founded with the goal of providing cost-effective, sustainable energy-monitoring solutions.
Jeremy Coyle, Igor Paprotny, Jason Trager, Richard White, Qiliang XuRead more about Persistent Efficiency
Pinnacle Photonics
Pinnacle Photonics develops high-efficiency vertical-cavity surface emitting laser arrays for 3D-sensing and ranging applications.
Connie Chang-Hasnain, Kevin Cook, Jonas Horst Kapraun,...Read more about Pinnacle Photonics
Propagate Sensing
Measuring changes in temperature and strain distributed along the length of an optical fiber with Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry for civil engineering projects.
Bo Li,...Read more about Propagate Sensing
Quadrant Imaging
LAMDA-based (laser amplified motion detection and analysis) ultra-high resolution optical microscopes with high-density data storage system, using a method of laser feedback interferometry which permits the imaging of nanometer-scale structures.
Timeline 1995....Read more about Quadrant ImagingSerinus Labs
Silicon Basis Ltd.
Low power SRAM memory IP compilers.
TimelineNarasimha Bhat, Kamal ChaudharyRead more about Silicon Basis Ltd.
Silicon Clocks, Inc.
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
...Read more about Silicon Clocks, Inc.Silicon Genesis Corporation
Silicon Genesis Corporation, doing business as SiGen, develops substrate technology, processes, and equipment for semiconductor, solar, display, and optoelectronics markets worldwide. The company provides silicon-on-insulators (SOIs), strained-silicon products, and
...Read more about Silicon Genesis CorporationSirenOpt
SirenOpt provides manufacturing intelligence solutions that accelerate research and development and enable cost-effective manufacturing of high-performance micro- and nano-materials, including lithium-ion batteries, membranes, semiconductors, flexible electronics,
...Read more about SirenOptSMART 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
SmartSense Energy
SmartSense Energy developed sensors that predict faults in underground electric utility cables, enabling repair of cables before faults occur. The company received California Energy Commission's Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) to spin out technology from UC Berkeley...Read more about SmartSense Energy
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
TeraOps
Developer of OmniScope, a compact, portable night vision goggle system with multi-spectral sensing and enhanced color visualization.
Timeline1996. Company founded
InventorsLeon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin YangRead more about TeraOps
UrbanScan
UrbanScan developed technologies for producing 3D virtual models with LiDar and video camera data. The technology was originally developed in the lab of Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professor Avideh Zakhor, who co-founded UrbanScan in...Read more about UrbanScan
Videnda, Inc.
Cellular Neural Network universal machine and super computer, nonlinear networks.
Timeline 2000. Company founded. InventorsLeon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin YangRead more about Videnda, 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.