Environment

Intropic Materials

Brief Description

Intropic Materials is developing truly compostable plastic and other self-degrading products that can be composted or perfectly recycled. The company combines the performance of proteins with a patented stabilization technology to build better materials that address the world's plastic waste problem.

Enzymes are nature’s chemists. They handle the reactions that let life happen, can be engineered for our purposes, and can even break down plastics! However they tend to struggle outside of their comfort zone, the cell. This limits our ability to use them in...

TerraForma Technologies

Brief Description

TerraForma Technologies develops advanced water and environmental technologies focused on tackling drought and desertification. The company uses dynamic models and technologies to combine a range of innovative agricultural, forestry and water resourcing techniques to convert desert landscapes into highly productive arable land. It also builds electrically conductive membrane technologies for the treatment of wastewater, brackish water and highly saline brines and developed a suite of desalination modules resistant to organic fouling and scaling.

Timeline 2015...

Wireless Industrial Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

The mission of Wireless Industrial Technologies, Inc. is to apply wireless technology to improve the productivity, energy efficiency, and environmental footprint of heavy industry. The company offers mesh networking, sensors, and model-based control software. Inventor and President of Wireless Industrial Technologies Dr. James Evans, was a UC Berkeley Faculty member for 35 years, serving as professor of metallurgy
and mineral engineering in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Timeline 2005. Company founded. Inventors

James Evans,...

Prolific Machines

Brief Description

Prolific Machines specializes in cell production with a unique manufacturing approach that combats climate change, enables space-food, and makes cell therapy accessible to everyone. The company's photomolecular biology platform leverages safe and effective tools — light, bioengineering, hardware, and AI — for dynamic control over virtually any cell function in any cell type. With the technology, partners can more efficiently biomanufacture nutritional proteins, antibodies to treat diseases, cultivated meat, and more.

Timeline 2020. Company founded...

Personal Comfort Systems Inc.

Brief Description

Personal Comfort Systems, Inc. (PCS) was incorporated as a Delaware corporation in July 2014 by cofounders Peter Rumsey and Kurt Herzog. At the same time PCS signed an exclusive license for the patent of a heated and cooled office chair with smart controls and whole building interface capabilities. The chair now called the Hyperchair, is to be sold to companies who want to address employee comfort and energy savings.

Timeline 2014. Company founded Inventors

Michael Andersen, Edward Arens, Wilmer Pasut, Hui...

Ceres, Inc.

Brief Description

Ceres, Inc. produced seeds of genetically modified crops used for biofuel production. The biotech company, based in Thousand Oaks, California, with a subsidiary in Brazil called Ceres Sementes do Brasil, operated from 1996 to 2016, when it was acquired by Land O'Lakes.

Timeline 1996. Company founded 2016. Company acquired by Land O'Lakes Inventors

Robert Fischer, Yeonhee Choi, Van-Dinh Dang, Mary Gehring, Robert Goldberg, Michael Hannon, John Harada, Tetsu Kinoshita, Tomohiro Kiyosue, Linda Margossian, Yukiko Mizukami, Nir Ohad,...

Bio-H2

Brief Description

Bio-H2 was founded to commercialize a proprietary photosynthetic hydrogen production process that utilizes microalgal cultures.

Timeline 2002. Company founded Inventors

Anastasios Melis, Michael Seibert, John Benemann, Marc Forestier, Maria Ghirardi, Hsu Ching Wintz, Liping Zhang

3C Energy Corporation

Brief Description

The company builds modular systems to capture and convert ambient carbon dioxide to value-added products such as fuels, biopolymers, pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes, commodity chemicals, and biomass.

Timeline 2021. Company founded Inventor

Douglas Clark

Picoyune

Brief Description

Picoyune replaces complex equipment with reliable, portable, and easy to use devices.

Their first target? Mercury. The company has developed a miniaturized, low-cost mercury sensor and applying it to personal exposure monitoring. The portable device is a good fit for testing in the field as there is no need for heavy lab equipment or carrier gas. It is also a practical mercury monitor for vulnerable artisanal/small-scale gold mining communities.

Timeline

2013. Company founded

Inventors

Catherine Koshland, Jeffrey Crosby, Jay James, Donald Lucas

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates

Brief Description

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates was founded to commercialize tools that help users develop strong geologic field skills, based on technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor George Brimhall. GeoMapper and GeoLogger enable surface mapping, underground mapping, and drillhole logging using digital methods implemented in two integrated and compatible mapping software systems, one for mapping and the other for logging.

Timeline 2001. Company founded Inventors

George Brimhall, Erica Stanton, Abel Vanegas