Electronic Systems and Components

FLX Micro, Inc.

Brief Description

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 manufacturing. The company was formerly known as Fiberlead, Inc.

Timeline 2000. Company founded. Inventors

Di Gao, Roger Howe, Roya Maboudian

Abacus Power, Inc.

Brief Description

Abacus Power is pioneering power delivery systems that increase power density and efficiency for data centers, satellites, and the aerospace industry.

Timeline 2024. Company founded Inventors

Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, Yicheng Zhu, Nathan Ellis

TeraOps

Brief Description

Developer of OmniScope, a compact, portable night vision goggle system with multi-spectral sensing and enhanced color visualization.

Timeline 1996. Company founded Inventors

Leon O. Chua, Tamas Roska, Frank Werblin, Lin Yang

eNano Technologies

Brief Description

eNano Technologies is redefining what’s possible in the Internet of Things. The company has developed the world’s smallest smart tags, called nanoTags, which are 14 times smaller than Apple's AirTag, and powered by battery-free Bluetooth technology developed at UC Berkeley. Built to be simple, sustainable, and powerful, nanoTags are compatible with billions of devices, enabling people to stay effortlessly connected to the things that matter most.

Timeline 2024. Company founded Inventors

Kristofer Pister, Osama Khan, Bradley Wheeler, David Burnett

nEye Systems

Brief Description

nEye Systems is a next-generation optical switch company. Their programmable photonic integrated circuit integrates high-radix optical circuit switching on a Si chip and is a future-proof solution for Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) systems and other high-performance computing environments. Their optical switches are poised to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the growth and adoption of AI/ML – the excessive costs of power requirements and network expansion.

nEye’s wafer-scale optical circuit switch offers direct optical connections,...

Sonera Magnetics

Brief Description

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 ambient magnetic fields. Sonera Magnetics is developing a magnetometer that can operate at room temperature and in portable form factors with sensitivity comparable to the best magnetic sensors available today, dramatically increasing potential applications.

Co-founders Dominic Labanowski and...

SirenOpt

Brief Description

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, packaging materials, and many others. The company's real-time manufacturing intelligence platform, designed for cost-effective manufacturing of thin films, utilizes cold atmospheric plasma and physics-informed machine learning to collect critical manufacturing data and improve manufacturing quality and output....

Calyx

Brief Description

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 customers phage-based sensing and analysis of multiple gasses.

Company co-founders Ray Chiu and Benson Fan developed the company’s founding technology as a capstone project while they were students in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Masters in Bioengineering program. With the encouragement of UC Berkeley...

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...

ScaleLight

Brief Description

ScaleLight is developing surface-emitting lasers that boost efficiency and scalability for powering everything from manufacturing and fusion plants to data centers and quantum computers. The company was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Boubacar Kanté, whose groundbreaking research solved a longstanding optics challenge to create compact, lightweight, high-efficiency lasers, called Berkeley Surface Emitting Lasers, or BerkSEL, for greener manufacturing and energy.
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