BSAC-Affiliated Startup

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 are used for timing references, signal filtering, mass sensing, biological sensing, motion sensing, and other diverse applications.

Timeline 2005. Company founded Inventors

Gianluca Piazza, Albert Pisano, Philip Stephanou

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. However, these methods have poor sensitivity compared to DNA diagnostics. Highly sensitive molecular DNA tests (PCR) are not often used because of cost and the need to send tests off-site resulting in a slow turnaround time (several days).

mFluiDx is a UC Berkeley startup developing Gates...

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, consumer electronics and healthcare. Timeline 2017. Company founded. Inventors Ali Javey

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) Liu

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 includes a hand-held automated device with an adaptive sample control module, an optical signal transductio n module, and an interface to a smartphone

Timeline 2015. Company founded Inventors

Byungrae Cho, Luke Lee, Sang Hun Lee, Jun Ho Son

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 Paredes