SBIR/STTR Recipient

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 reduction in power consumption, enabling consumer devices and IoT applications to extend battery life, enable always-on wireless connectivity, and operate entirely on scavenged power.

The company is disrupting the wireless communication market by offering the truly ultra-low power wireless ICs...

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 battery. The company's patented silicon and wireless mesh technology was developed over five years of research and development at UC Berkeley. Monolets' mission is to enable extremely reliable connectivity in challenging RF environments (metal & liquid obstruction), thereby providing access to real-time information...

Microgrid Labs

Brief Description

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 company helps clients assess needs, analyze the state of operations, model future operating scenarios, and design the most economical solutions.

Complementing the consulting practice, the company also offers software platforms for modeling, simulation, and optimization of EV charging...

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...

Mercator MedSystems Inc.

Brief Description

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 Company's technology also enables the commercialization of novel therapeutics for other vascular diseases, hypertension, oncology, and regenerative medicine. The Company's Cricketª and Bullfrog Micro-Infusion Catheters are the first vascular-access systems able to infuse drugs, genes, and cells...

Mendel Biological Solutions

Brief Description

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 Solutions is committed to providing the innovations that will help sustain crops around the world.

Mendel Biological Solutions was acquired by Koch Agronomic Services in 2014.

Inventors

Karen Century, Douglas Dahlbeck, Peter Repetti, Allan Shapiro, Brian Staskawicz

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Magnetic Insight

Brief Description

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 research groups in the global field of Magnetic Particle Imaging from UC Berkeley. Developed over the past decade in the research lab of UC Berkeley Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Steven Conolly, MPI has proven in animal studies to generate high-contrast...

Lygos, Inc.

Brief Description

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 Agriculture, and National Science Foundation.

Inventors

Jeffrey Fortman, Leonard Katz, Jay Keasling

Company Founders

Eric Steen Ph.D (UC Berkeley, BS, Management of Technology, 2009, Ph.D., Doctor of Philosophy, Bioengineering, 2010), Leonard Katz, Jay Keasling Ph.D (UC Berkeley Professor...

Lumiphore, Inc.

Brief Description

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, reliability, flexibility and high throughput) and radioisotope chelators for attachment to carrier molecules used in cancer therapeutics and radio-imaging diagnostics that can be paired as a companion diagnostics in radio-pharmaceutical therapeutics.

Inventors

Seth Cohen, Stephane Petoud,...

Lucira Health

Brief Description Lucira Health is revolutionizing the way infectious diseases are prevented, diagnosed, and monitored by developing the tools necessary to empower people to become knowledgeable about their health. We produce inexpensive, disposable health diagnostic hardware that transforms any smartphone into a portable, real-time health-monitoring device for rapid, accessible, multiplexed analysis of bodily fluids anywhere in the world.

Formerly known as Diassess, Inc.

Lucira Health had an initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol of LHDX...