BSAC-Affiliated Startup

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...

Harmonic Devices, Inc.

Brief Description

Developer of Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-compatible microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) contour mode resonator technology - small electromechanical structures that vibrate at high frequencies - for filtering and clock synthesis. MEMS resonators are used for timing references, signal filtering, mass sensing, biological sensing, motion sensing, and other diverse applications.

Timeline 2005. Company founded Inventors

Gianluca Piazza, Albert Pisano, Philip Stephanou

mFluiDx

Brief Description

mFluiDx is aiming to develop the world’s lowest cost, automated point-of-care DNA diagnostic assay for small clinics. In small clinics, such as primary care out-patient clinics, disease diagnosis is typically done by observing symptoms or using paper-strip antibody tests. However, these methods have poor sensitivity compared to DNA diagnostics. Highly sensitive molecular DNA tests (PCR) are not often used because of cost and the need to send tests off-site resulting in a slow turnaround time (several days).

mFluiDx is a UC Berkeley startup developing Gates...

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...

Serinus Labs

Brief Description Serinus Labs is the world`s first manufacturer of integrated silicon gas sensors. Enabled by cutting-edge nanotechnology, Serinus Labs specializes in providing custom solutions for existing and emerging gas sensor markets such as in industrial health and safety, automotive, consumer electronics and healthcare. Timeline 2017. Company founded. Inventors Ali Javey