Communications, Information Technology, and Data Processing

Avametric

Brief Description

Avametric technology enables brands to deliver accurate 3D renderings of their apparel & accessories on customizable digital body models for web, mobile, and augmented reality. With the proprietary software, business can recreate a real-world fitting room experience online, making it possible for customers to try on garments virtually with a personalized 3D avatar. The company was born out of ARCSims adaptive refining and corsening simulator technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Computer Sciences James O'Brien. Dr. O'Brien co-founded Avametric,...

Atheer Inc.

Brief Description

Atheer’s pioneering Augmented Reality Management Platform provides the world’s leading enterprises a competitive edge by markedly improving the productivity, effectiveness, accuracy, and safety of their workforces, customers, and supply chains.

Inventors

Ruzena Bajcsy, Roozbeh Jafari, Sosale Sastry, Allen Yang

Company Founders

Ullas Naik, Babak Yazdani (UC Berkeley, B.A. ’87, Applied Mathematics), and Albert Azout

Timeline 2011. Company founded

Aptility, Inc.

Brief Description

A distributed thermostat architecture, system and software that provides energy efficiency, enhanced comfort, and load management functionality for residential HVAC operation. The underlying software is a platform for home intelligence using wireless sensor technology. The technology was developed by UC Berkeley Professor of Mechanical Engineering Paul Wright and Mechanical Engineering PhD student Nathan Ota.

Inventors

Nathan Ota, Paul Wright

Company Founders

Nathan Ota

Timeline 2008. Company founded

Adura Technologies

Brief Description

Adura Technologies provides wireless lighting and energy management systems to improve energy efficiency and facilitate cost savings.

Adura Technologies was acquired by Acuity Brands in 2013.

Inventors

Charlie Huizenga

Company Founders

Nathaniel Goldhaber (UC Berkeley, M.A. ’85, Education)

Timeline 2005. Company founded 2013. Adura Technologies acquired by Acuity Brands

Aclima Inc.

Brief Description

Aclima’s platform combines leading-edge sensor technology, climate science, and an enterprise software back-end to generate high-resolution maps of emissions across pollutants – from CO2 and methane to particulate matter. Aclima fills a fundamental need in climate risk management by making hyperlocal emissions data and insights accessible and standardized, at a fraction of the cost of traditional methods.

Inventors

Frederick Doering, Igor Paprotny, Richard White

Company Founders

Daniel Ahn, Wendy Schmidt (UC Berkeley, M.S., Journalism), Deborah...

Ergodicity

Brief Description

Ergodicity develops analytical methods for the age of AI. The company takes a data-first approach to create next-generation optical tools that set new standards in the accessibility of information in chemical and biophysical analytics for biotech.

Inventors

Hendrik Utzat

Company Founders

UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Chemistry Hendrik Utzat and Richard Maceiczyk

Timeline 2025. Company founded

RoadSafe GIS, Inc.

Brief Description

Our team is bringing modern technology to collision data management. We have seen too many outdated or complex software tools in the field and felt there was a better way. We are dedicated to providing a clean, effective means to manage collision data. We want to empower traffic safety practitioners and help them reduce the number and severity of motor vehicle collisions on our roadways.

We have a strong background in engineering, GIS, cloud technology, programming and research. That is the heart of RoadSafe GIS. We are excited to be providing our service and look...

20n Labs, Inc.

Brief Description

The next decade is going to see a biotech revolution fueled by three technologies: ability to read DNA (sequencing), ability to write DNA (synthesis), and computational systems that predict what DNA to read and write. With sequencing and synthesis being mainstream now, 20n provides the computational systems that predict DNA design for novel industrial biotech and health applications. At 20n, we are taking a fresh look at turning biological data into information. We approach it as a big data learning problem, and bring to bear techniques from machine learning, distributed...

Sensetics

Brief Description

Sensetics is taking human and machine touch interaction into the digital age, providing the hardware and software to record, edit, and transmit touch.

Sensetics Touch Signature™ programmable fabrics, backed by AI-powered touch capture and editing software, grant a user the ability to experience in real time what a remotely operated vehicle, surgical tool, robot, or other user is touching, at the same resolution as the nerve endings in our fingertips.

The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Xiaoyu (...

Knit Health Technologies

Brief Description

Applying artificial intelligence to clinical decision making in healthcare.

Timeline 2025. Company founded Inventors

Jonas Raphael Knecht, Maya Petersen, Jonathan Kolstad