Communications, Information Technology, and Data Processing

UrbanScan

Brief Description

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 2005.

Google acquired the UrbanScan technology in 2007, and used the software for web-based 3D reconstruction of urban landscapes as the basis for Google Earth.

Inventors

John Flynn, Christian Frueh, Siddharth Jain, Russell Sammon, Avideh Zakhor

Timeline 2005...

TruVideo, Inc.

Brief Description

Software to enable video viewing on mobile devices, offering faster speed, lower power consumption, smaller footprint, and superior visual quality. TruVideo's technology is deployed on mobile applications for Verizon Wireless, AllTell, and U.S. Cell.

The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Avideh Zakhor.

Inventors

Sen-ching Cheung, Ralph Neff, Avideh Zakhor

Timeline

1997. Company founded 2003. Product in the market

TL Revolution, LLC

Brief Description

TL Revolution delivers the next generation of data analysis tools with superior precision, reliability, and ease of use to pharma, FDA, and beyond. Data analysis drives mission-critical decisions, but hasn’t kept up with proven advances in statistics. Biased and imprecise analyses lead to wrong conclusions and significant loss of time and money. The company's software encapsulates expertise in super learning and TMLE to proved state-of-the-art machine learning and robust causal inference.

The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor in Biostatistics and...

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 (...

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 We have seen too many outdated or complex software tools in the field and felt there was a better way.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...

Onix Microsystems, Inc.

Brief Description

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 and provisioning, optical add/drop multiplexing, and optical cross connects. OniX offered MEMS design and photonic packaging services.

Inventors

Behrang Behin, Kam Yin Lau, Richard Muller

Timeline 1998. Company founded.

Modulus Video, Inc.

Brief Description

The company developed MPEG-4 advanced video coding (AVC) compression systems designed for HD video content delivery. The technology, based on how the brain processes images, was co-invented by UC Berkeley Professor of Neurobiology William Geoffrey Owen and Sean McCarthy (Berkeley PhD, Bioengineering). The inventors co-founded startup Sensory Technologies, later renamed Viasense, to commercialize a perceptual processing tool kit for professional pay TV encoders, leveraging their research into the biology of human vision. The intellectual property was then licensed to...

Knit Health Technologies

Brief Description

Applying artificial intelligence to clinical decision making in healthcare.

Inventors

Jonas Raphael Knecht, Maya Petersen, Jonathan Kolstad

Timeline 2025. Company founded

Indoor Reality, Inc

Brief Description

Indoor Reality's visual and metric documentation of the indoors creates technological bridges between the physical and digital worlds. The company's patented hardware and software platform automates 3D-tagging of objects, and dimension measurements, making it possible for property owners, facility managers, and others to provide real time, 3D tours of facilities. Applications include architecture, engineering, and construction, energy audits, facilities management, commercial real estate, first respondents, and real time occupancy tracking.

The company was founded...

Humen, Inc.

Brief Description

Humen, Inc. is a platform for personalized interactive content creation using artificial intelligence. The AI platform permits transferring movements and skills through video, enabling users to share video content. Its popular iOS app, Sway: Magic Dance, uses state of the art AI modelling to generate video. The fun-to-use app generates videos of users based on a source video uploaded by the user doing basic motions, like moving around, kicking their legs or waving their arms. Its PyTorch-backed proprietary GAN Neural Network model creates a digital skeleton of the user....