BSAC-Affiliated Startup

PhenomeX

Brief Description

PhenomeX empowered Digital Cell Biology by combining bioscience, technology and information in unique new ways to accelerate science. The platforms, assays and services, biologists can move faster and more efficiently to meet the demands for cell based processes in biotherapeutic discovery and development, cellular therapy manufacturing, synthetic biology, ag-bio, and other fields.

Formerly known as Berkeley Lights, Inc.

Inventors

Kevin Champman, Pei Yu Chiou, Maurice Garcia, Jian Gong, Hsan yin Hsu, Kuo Wei Huang, Arash Jamshidi, Igor Khandros...

Organos, Inc.

Brief Description Developer of cardiac micro physiological systems designed to offer three-dimensional (3D) human cardiac tissue models for advanced analysis. The company's data science ecosystem is used to illuminate the effects of compounds on human cardiac tissue, ranging from acute cardiotoxicity and safety pharmacology to chronic studies to predict drug-induced arrhythmia, thereby enabling the health industry to perform safer and cheaper drug development activities. Inventors

Kevin Healy, SoonGweon Hong, Luke Lee, Peter Loskill, Anurag Mathur Pia, Rodriguez Nunez...

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

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...

Iota Biosciences

Brief Description

Established in 2017, iota Biosciences was formed with a vision to change how the world monitors and treats disease. Building on award-winning 'neural dust' technology invented at the University of California, Berkeley, Iota Biosciences is building a platform for the future of bioelectronic medicine.

Timeline 2017. Company founded. Inventors

Michel Maharbiz, Jose Carmena

BSAC-Affiliated Startups

Silicon Clocks, Inc.

Brief Description

Headquartered in Fremont, CA, Silicon Clocks was founded in 2006 to develop high performance semiconductor timing and sensor designs and its patented CMEMS(TM) technology. Silicon Clocks was backed by leading venture investors including Tallwood Venture Capital, Charles River Ventures, Formative Ventures, Lux Capital and Silicon Labs.

The company was co-founded by Dr. Roger Howe, former co-director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center and UC Berkeley Professor of Electrical Engineering, and BSAC post-doctoral researcher Emmanuel Quevy.

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Kryptos Biotechnologies

Brief Description

Developer of molecular diagnostic software designed for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. The company's platform develops a point-of-care, ultrafast photonic polymerase chain reaction that can create a fast photothermal heating plasmonic thin film by a light-emitting diode, enabling medical professionals to make the right clinical decision quickly at a reasonable cost.

Dr. Jun Ho Sun co-founded Kryptos Technologies to commercialize discoveries made as an Assistant Project Scientist and Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley in the lab of Professor of...

Discera Inc.

Brief Description

Discera develops and markets micro-electrical mechanical system-based timing solutions for consumer, enterprise, industrial, and communication markets. The company offers timing and clock oscillators, including differential, standard, high stability high temp, programmable, and miniature oscillators; and multi-output clock generators, I2C/SPI programmable oscillators, and pin configurable and programmable oscillators. The company's products are used in the mobile market, including smartphones, tablets, and E-readers.

The company was founded by UC Berkeley Professor...