A total of 22 participants have each received $100,000 in funding as part of the UC Berkeley accelerator.
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) yesterday unveiled the 22 startups to have secured capital for participating in the autumn 2018 edition of its UC Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator program.
The 22 businesses will each receive $100,000 from the $24m Berkeley SkyDeck Fund in addition to more than $250,000 worth of free or discounted services and mentoring.
The cohort will be trained alongside 80 hotdesk teams that are either considered too early-stage to receive institutional funding or have received such funding already. Hotdesk teams will be able to access SkyDeck workspace, events and mentors throughout the autumn 2018 session.
SkyDeck was formed in 2012 with the mission of driving the commercialisation of university research under a partnership between Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, College of Engineering and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.
The latest cohort includes University of Tokyo cell sorting visualisation spinout ThinkCyte, which recently secured $3.2m in a seed round backed by university venture fund Osaka University Venture Capital.
Others include media content technology developer Triton Cloud, information recommendation engine developer Snipfeed, investment platform SMBX, communications services provider Skyloom Global, business analytics engine developer SimpleDataLabs and chipmaker Seamless Microsystems.
Networking authentication technology creator Resonance will also take part, as will scientific AI search engine developer Researchably, risk assessment tool developer Predictim, cryptocurrency wager forum operator PredictEV, website management tools provider Perfect Dashboard and household robot manufacturer Peanut Robotics.
The others are gaming marketplace KorroBox, sensor fabric maker Impresssivo, cognitive technology supplier Humm, exam monitoring technology developer Examus, nutrient absorption specialist Empire Biotechnologies, gene therapy developer Chameleon Biosciences, marketing chatbot developer Cashbot.ai and geodata platform Bungee Tech.
