Berkeley SkyDeck

Beginning with the Spring 2018 SkyDeck cohort, each of the 20 companies accepted into the SkyDeck full cohort will be eligible for investment of up to $100,000 from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Created as a joint venture among UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering, Haas School of Business, and the Vice Chancellor for Research Office, SkyDeck Berkeley has become the apex startup launchpad for UC Berkeley-affiliated entrepreneurs. As one of the first in-house public research university accelerator programs, our goal is to foster entrepreneurial excellence through personalized and specialized engagement to our teams by providing access to our network of advisors, investors, workshops and other resources.

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Advisor

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Jerome Engel

Advisor

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General Partner

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Pickpocket

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Pickpocket helps graduates accelerate student debt repayment taking a percentage of their spending and using it to pay down their student loans. Loved ones can sponsor a graduate's debt repayment efforts by matching her savings or sending one-time gifts, directly to their graduate's student loans.

Root Applied Sciences

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Root Applied Sciences Inc. provides automated in-field DNA-based sensors for airborne pathogens. It helps to send pathogen alerts directly to phone or upload automatically to the dashboard. Root Applied Sciences Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Intento

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Intento helps global companies procure and utilize the best-fit cognitive AI services. The Intento AI Hub connects AI models trained on multiple platforms (such as Amazon, Google AutoML, or Microsoft Cognitive Services) with many enterprise software systems. Launched in 2017, Intento offers its patented, ISO-27001 certified platform to global technology, retail, and travel companies, augmenting their Localization, Content Management, Customer Support, and Marketing Operations with AI. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

SwiftMotion

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
SwiftMotion is building wearable sensors and analytics targeting industrial workers.

Medostic

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Medostic, Inc. develops proprietary integrated inpatient clinical decision support software to personalize metabolic treatment of critical care patients. The company's products offer proprietary integrated inpatient clinical decision support software to personalize metabolic treatment with the mission of improving glycemic control, combines measurements of glucose, lactate, and other metabolites of the Body Energy State with proprietary algorithms to prescribe personalized infusion administration of formulations and therapeutics. Medostic, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Eventable

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
Eventable, Inc. provides calendar marketing platform solutions for brands and marketers. The company offers solutions in the areas of increase attendance, manage events, share a calendar of events, drive sales, and promote launches. It serves B2B, retail, entertainment, services, education, and nonprofit sectors. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Berkeley, California. As of April 25, 2018, Eventable, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Rockerbox, Inc.

GenomeUp

Seed Round in 2022
GenomeUp Srl develops software for doctors to get a detailed clinical report on genes affecting patient pathologies. The software provides doctors with the information needed to understand the role the genome has in diseases. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Rome, Italy.

neuroFit

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
neuroFit, Inc. develops products to monitor neural health measured using eye-movements. It offers Oculometric Neurological Examination, an oculometric device that provides individuals, clinicians, athletic trainers, and researchers access to the precision and sensitivity of the oculomotor system. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Mountain View, California.

SparcIt

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
SparcIt is an NSF-funded technology and creativity company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Based on over 50 years of psychological research, SparcIt has developed the first-ever automated platform to accurately assess and categorize an individual or teams' creative thinking abilities. Some are divergent thinkers and generate many ideas, other have the knack to focus on very original ones. Employers can now measure and help enhance employees and teams' creative power through an easy to use online platform. They gain access to an accurate and versatile creativity quotient (CQ) to recruit and train employees, to form teams with appropriate, balanced skill sets. Increased engagement, improved retention, and enhanced leadership skills all result in a successful organization.

Grido

Private Placement in 2019
Grido Inc. offers charging stations and storage solutions for the micro mobility industry. It also provides monitoring and tracking of charging and automatic switching. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California.

CarpeMed

Pre Seed Round in 2020
CarpeMed is travel medical, a modern membership powered by healthcare intelligence that puts high-quality medical certainty at the forefront. We’ve solved unknown quality of care, the maze and mess of high-quality search and costly premiums. A travel medical companion that is the 1st to create Travel Medical Community.

Cross Platform Solutions GmbH

Private Placement in 2018
Cross Platform Solutions GmbH develops Keyword Hero cloud based machine learning algorithms. It offers optimize search engine that provides keyword and traffice analysis, site structure and content optimization, and boost organic ROI. It also offers brand detection, position in the serps, and query type. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Workep

Seed Round in 2019
Workep is the first project management platform that completely integrates and automates G Suite. Centralization: Smart integration. With a single click, integrate the entire G Suite tools. Forget about technical skills to the integrations, start in minutes, not months. Automation: Say goodbye to slow progress. With Workep’s automation, you’ll spend less time creating reports, synchronizing and sharing files, calendar events, and other manual tasks. Simplification: An artificial intelligence that recognizes usage patterns and becomes a virtual assistant, providing information on progress vs. deadlines and how to better coordinate tasks.

KorroBox

Seed Round in 2018
KorroBox, Inc. develops and owns a game marketplace where game publishers and players are able to buy and sell games and micro transactions with traditional payments and block chain technology. The company offers for developers zero distribution fees, no charge backs, new markets, multiple platforms, and secondary markets; and for players ownership, peer to peer sales, flexible payments, fraud protection, and community development services. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Orion Span, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Orion Span, Inc. owns and operates a space station for recreational purposes. The company provides a 12 day tour and a hotel experience inside its space station called Aurora. It also offers three month training and astronaut certification to its customers. Orion Span, Inc. also provides microgravity research services. In addition, the company offers leases to manufacturing organizations. Orion Span, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in San Mateo, California. It has additional office in Houston, Texas.

Mooqita

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Mooqita.org develops platform that connects organizations, learners, and educators to create learning experiences that solve real world work tasks. The company offers flexible platform, trusted certificates, global outreach, creative solutions, blockchain technology, and task matching. Mooqita.org was formerly known as Mooqita and changed its name to Mooqita.org in February 2018. The was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Ottometric

Private Placement in 2019
Ottometric Inc. develops an industry-specific autonomous vehicle safety service platform that is able to provide an intelligent verification framework that gives a deeper understanding of events and anomalies. The cloud-based platform utilizes big data to determine the effectiveness of systems in real-world scenarios. It does this through the integration of artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and computer vision. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Newton, Massachusetts.

Keybee

Private Placement in 2018
Keybee, Inc. owns and operates an online marketplace for short-term rental support services. The company connects hosts to local freelancers and small businesses providing services, including online listing management, guest check-ins, guest communication, gust welcoming, key delivery, cleaning, and laundry services. Keybee, Inc. was formerly known as Keybee Hosting LLC and changed its name to Keybee, Inc. in April 2019. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Berkeley, California.

SpacePlace Inc.

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
SpacePlace partners with rental property owners to create digital catalogs of the products they’ve curated for each space.

Synervoz Communications

Private Placement in 2018
Synervoz Communications Inc. develops Switchboard, a voice-based communication application that lets users listen to music and talk with friends when the headphones are on. Its application enables remote teams to communicate and users set permissions on who can reach them and when can they be reached. The company’s application is compatible with mobile phones (iOS and Android), web applications, and desktop (Windows and Mac). Synervoz Communications Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Ingleside, Canada.

Vrenergy

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Vrenergy is in partnership with GSVlabs Pioneer Accelerator with Google Developers Launchpad, National Science Foundation - Bay Area Regional Innovation Corps at UC Berkeley, and University of California, Berkeley SkyDeck.

Foot++

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Foot++ develops an electrical stimulation device designed to facilitate the treatment of foot drop. The company is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Deep Isolation

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Deep Isolation, Inc. develops nuclear waste storage and disposal solutions. Its solution places spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in horizontal drill hole repositories located deep underground in suitable rock formations. Deep Isolation, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. It also has sales offices in Tokyo, Japan; and Washington, District of Columbia.

AimHub

Private Placement in 2020
AimHub, Inc. develops machine learning software platform that allows engineers and data scientists to track, compare, monitor, and optimize their ML models. The product provides a repository which can be used to store experiments and their full history. AimHub, Inc. is based in the United States.

Bitbutter

Seed Round in 2018
Bitbutter is a cryptocurrency data platform that enables applications to connect users' exchanges and wallets. Bitbutter provides the best and most comprehensive user data across all cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets. Their RESTful API provides applications with enriched data through a unified experience.

Ensighta

Non Equity Assistance in 2012
Ensighta providing computer programming services.

Clyme Health

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Clyme Health collects diagnostic and treatment experience, surface insights, and test results to help people with tick-borne infections.

Ottometric

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Ottometric Inc. develops an industry-specific autonomous vehicle safety service platform that is able to provide an intelligent verification framework that gives a deeper understanding of events and anomalies. The cloud-based platform utilizes big data to determine the effectiveness of systems in real-world scenarios. It does this through the integration of artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, and computer vision. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Newton, Massachusetts.

Organos

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Organos provides an analysis of action potential and calcium transient dynamic in cardiac MPS to predict arrhythmia. The company uses a silico framework to invert measurements into mechanisms of action and provide estimated IC50 values of ion channels. Organos was founded in 2019 by Kevin E. Healy and Samuel T. Wall and is based in Moraga, California.

Wellnite

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Wellnite makes high-quality mental healthcare services accessible to everyone regardless of zip code or insurance coverage.

Bungee Tech

Seed Round in 2019
Bungee Tech Corporation designs and develops geolocation data mining software. It enables data collection that provides recommendations to e-commerce businesses, such as retailers, airlines, and hotels and competes in real-time on price, selection, promotions, and ad listing. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Pinpoint Science

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Pinpoint Science, Inc. manufactures instant bio-electronic diagnostics for the detection, diagnosis, and surveillance of infectious diseases worldwide. It offers a nanosensor based diagnostics device that uses electrical measurement with nanosensor chips based on functionalized nanopipettes and detects pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria, and fungi in biofluids. Pinpoint Science, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kloudless

Non Equity Assistance in 2011
Kloudless abstracts away the differences between APIs without compromising functionality, creating a simple, unified interface for developers to build native integrations into their applications. Code once to our Unified APIs, and reuse that code for any service in that category. We support 100+ integrations across software categories like Cloud Storage, CRM, Calendar, Email, Chat, Accounting, ERP, Messaging, ITSM, and more. Our platform technology can quickly ingest new APIs and add support for new integrations, which makes Kloudless a great long-term partner for satisfying future product requirements and customer requests.

Triplecorn

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Triplecorn is a property management software-as-a-service that provide homeowners with a simple method to manage their rental properties. The company was founded by Aaron Li, Lawrence Chen, and Edward Choi and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

SpatialFirst

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
The SpatialFirst PlaceTime application is a contextually-aware companion app for commercial real estate.

San Draw

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
San Draw was founded by two Stanford University alumni, Gary Chang and Michael Lu, in 2014. San Draw developed FAM Technology to enable 3D printing with features in full-color, adjustable-hardness, and multi-material.

Nventi

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Nventi helps organizations commercialize technology in an unprecedented way. They are building a collaborative platform where organizations can acquire, sell or license technology faster, easier and with much more predictable outcomes. It is a business intelligence platform that is not only content-rich, intuitive, and useful, but also widely applicable and customizable. Their platform will create a process that can rapidly analyze structured and unstructured datasets to query, identify and visualize hidden values and insights in a new and unprecedented way. Nventi was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, USA.

BBXX

Pre Seed Round in 2019
BBXX is your personal guide for give education about intimacy, communication, and relationships. BBXX uses digital solutions and storytelling to bring the user the most important life education that they don't get at home or in school- about relationships. Everything you wish you knew about sexuality, intimacy, and communication to help you live easier yet more meaningful relationships. Ultimately, BBXX wants you to live them to the fullest- and live life to the fullest as a result.

SMBX

Seed Round in 2021
SMBX, Inc. operates an online funding portal, which offers a small business marketplace network for buying and selling small business financial securities and bonds. The company’s portal enable users to discover and invest in businesses and enables small businesses to offer bonds directly to the public without banks and standard regulatory fees. It also operates a mobile application to provide its services. SMBX, Inc. was formerly known as Peerhood, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Skyloom Global

Private Placement in 2018
Skyloom Global Corp. develops and manufactures outer space communication technology for creating a space-borne infrastructure. The company offers optical communications based products and relay satellites placed in geostationary orbit. It products help in increasing space-to-earth bandwidth. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Merritt Island, Florida.

Researchably

Seed Round in 2018
Researchably Inc. develops an artificial intelligence (AI)-based natural language processing (NLP) platform for biomedical researchers to automate their medical literature review. Its platform enables medical affairs and medical information teams to teach the AI to automatically distribute targeted articles to key stakeholders, such as colleagues or KOLs. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California.

CertifiedRecs

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
CertifiedRecs is an employee referral portal that allows their clients to manage their references. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California, United States.

FLEEP Technologies

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
FLEEP Technologies S.r.l. engages in the design, development, production, and marketing of recyclable integrated circuits and systems that are made mainly through printing techniques and polymeric materials. It offers its technology to biomedical, automotive, and packaging industries. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Milan, Italy.

Bio-Logic Health, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Bio-Logic Health, Inc., doing business as Aimee Health, manufactures vitamins and nutritional supplements. The company develops an online platform through which it offers vitamin plan tracking and subscription packs of vitamins products. It offers its product through an online platform. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Antigravity Investments

Seed Round in 2019
Antigravity Investments Inc. provides investment advisory services. It offers services in the areas of high-yield savings, low-risk portfolios, high-return portfolios, and outsourced CIO. The company’s investment strategies and customized portfolios that help investors to manage and operates investments. In addition, it owns and operates an online portal that provides account deposits and withdrawals, performance reporting, and tax reporting services. Antigravity Investments Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Burlingame, California.

Gungho Space

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
GungHo Space operates an entrepreneurial service platform offering co-working space and information services to SMEs and entrepreneurs. The company offers international secretary services that includes administration and business affairs for companies or individuals; membership services; office services; virtual office services; and marketing services. GungHo Space is based in Guangdong, China.

Peanut Robotics

Private Placement in 2018
Peanut Robotics designs and develops robots for the elderly. It manufactures robots to retrieve heavy books to fragile eyeglasses for seniors and others with physical ailments unable to bend effectively. Peanut Robotics is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MUSA

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Musa is an events service company that connects local artists with unconventional local venues. The company advertises to the local community of artists using social media, newsletter, and location-based calendar. Musa was founded in 2019 by Lucas Tepman, Adam Sherman, and Magdalena Fraga Lauhirat and is based in Berkeley, California.

Ara Sound Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ARA Sound Labs is based in Berkeley, California.

MoBagel

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
MoBagel’s vision is to bring AI-driven decision making to enterprises through software and services. MoBagel has empowered global enterprises to extract business insights and create value from their data across industries including retail, telecom, manufacturing, banking, and more.

True Preferences

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Developer of a noninvasive technology and mobile app intended to revolutionize decision making. The company's mobile app focuses on personalizing diet, transforming relationship with food, and elevating individual well-being and captures and interprets biofeedback within 200 milliseconds, using only a smartphone camera, enabling users to explore their unique biological preferences and make personalized decisions accordingly.

Verne

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Verne is a cleantech startup accelerating pioneering a new high-density, low-cost, and lightweight hydrogen storage system. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California, United States.

Spectral Coded Illumination

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Spectral Coded Illumination provides cutting-edge computational imaging and illumination devices for microscopy. Whether a sample is transparent, optically thick, or impractically small, our company develops products which allow users to "see the invisible". SCI will develop products which address this need, such as high-performance LED arrays specifically designed for the challenging requirements of microscopy, as well as low-cost phase imaging hardware which enables diagnostic-quality imaging in low-resource settings. With a combined 15 years of experience in computational imaging and coded illumination techniques, our Berkeley-based team is in a unique position to lead the industry into a new era of imaging.

Planogy

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Planogy Inc. provides a feedback platform that enables designers to get feedback from engineers and other stakeholders. It offers Planogy that allows designers to share design assets with their team to leave comments and explain additional details with simple shapes. The company’s Planogy provides team collaboration and integrations. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Rafael, California.

Tarmac Technologies

Private Placement in 2019
Tarmac Technologies LLC develops an application for ground agents and station managers to monitor the turnaround and to collaborate with all the stakeholders. It provides Aircraft Ground Operations Assistant (AGOA), an application that provides real-time collection of data; provides predictions and alerts in case of irregularities; allows communication with relevant stakeholders to resolve issues; and provides performance analytics and displays them on the platform for managers to track performance. The company serves airlines, airports, and ground handlers. Tarmac Technologies LLC was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has additional offices in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.

ALPHABIS

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Alphabis Inc. develops Alphabis, a software solution for managing the cultivation of crops in controlled growing facilities. It optimizes resources throughout the growth process to streamline planning, task management, and to maximize yield. The company is based in Berkeley, California.

MuMec

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
MuMec is a fabless startup building new wireless data transmission technology that uses drastically lower operating power. With these new wireless transceivers, the power budget is low enough to allow continuous operation of sensor node devices for years while using only scavenged or battery power.

Route Reports

Private Placement in 2019
Route Reports Ltd. manufactures Internet of things based electronic sensors to access the real time analytics on road routes for infrastructure and transport operations. Additionally the company develops software to support its product. It can be used for defect visualization, reinstatement analysis, road condition analysis, and defect predictions. Route Reports Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Seamless Microsystems

Private Placement in 2018
Seamless Microsystems offers patented Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs). Our first generation of products is for the medical imaging and 4G/WiFI markets. We have silicon-proven devices from TSMC’s 28nm HPM process and test results are available under NDA. Our next generation of products is geared for the high bandwidth requirements needed for LIDAR, 5G wireless, and G.fast communication systems. Using continuous-time sigma-delta ADCs reduce system cost as it relaxes the anti-aliasing requirements. In addition, because of the input being resistive instead of capacitive like most ADCs, it lowers the power requirements of the input buffer. Also, our ADCs are able to tolerate a lot of clock jitter which allows the system designer to use less-costly PLLs for clock generation.

LocalWise

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Localwise is an online job board that connects students and community members with jobs at local businesses. The site features full-time, part-time, and internship jobs available in Oakland, Berkley, and San Francisco. The jobs are posted under categories such as art and design, beauty and spa, construction, education, entertainment, food and drink, government, health and fitness, household help, non-profit, professional services, retail, startups and tech, and other. Localwise was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.

COOLJAMM

Seed Round in 2019
COOLJAMM Company develops a music creation application. The application allows users to create music by humming. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

HashCut

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
HashCut is on a mission to revolutionize gaming highlights through AI, by auto-generating the best highlights from YouTube and Twitch videos. With HashCut, the 700 million fans globally that watch gaming videos on YouTube or Twitch can instantly generate highlights, annotate their clips, and share to Discord, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites. Additionally, gaming streamers and esports leagues can automatically create and share highlights with fans. HashCut is based in the heart of Silicon Valley in Sunnyvale, CA.

GenomEdge

Private Placement in 2019
GenomEdge is a biotechnology company that offers DNA testing services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Xoba

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Xoba is creating a single search experience for knowledge workers that enables them to easily find information within their organization, regardless of how it is organized or structured. At their best, tools are natural extensions of the mind and catapult productivity to new heights. In this day and age, we have a huge influx of tools and information at our disposal, but none are intuitive enough for people to use them seamlessly. Xoba closes this gap by structuring information for you in the way you think, extending your knowledge base and amplifying your productivity. Xoba is founded by engineers and product managers from Cisco Meraki and Nuro.

Blockboard

Private Placement in 2019
Blockboard develops and provides a mobile application that reconnects neighbors and neighborhoods. Its application enables neighbors to interact with one another, ask their neighbors questions, and post pictures of lost and found items.. The company's application reports potholes and graffiti directly to the city and alert each other about crime and vandalism. The company was formerly known as BlockChalk, Inc. and changed its name to Blockboard in April 2011. Blockboard was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of February 7, 2012, Blockboard operates as a subsidiary of Klout, Inc.

BitBroker

Pre Seed Round in 2018
BitBroker is a platform that allows users to buy bitcoins via simple bank transfer. The company was founded in 2016 by Peter Wood and Bipin Bhanderi and is headquartered in Manchester, England, United Kingdom.

Bungee Tech

Private Placement in 2018
Bungee Tech Corporation designs and develops geolocation data mining software. It enables data collection that provides recommendations to e-commerce businesses, such as retailers, airlines, and hotels and competes in real-time on price, selection, promotions, and ad listing. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Bellevue, Washington.

Prof360

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
ProfHire, Inc. develops a web-based platform that connects colleges and universities with vetted scholars and industry professionals for part-time faculty positions. The company specializes in part-time faculty, as well as recruits full-time faculty. It offers a range of specialized services, including pre-screening, professional development training, and personalized onboarding services. It serves higher education and learning organizations. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Buck.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Buck.ai designs and develops process automation platform. It offers artificial intelligence based robotic process automation (RPA) platform that enables businesses to automate their key operations and customer experience. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

SMBX

Pre Seed Round in 2018
SMBX, Inc. operates an online funding portal, which offers a small business marketplace network for buying and selling small business financial securities and bonds. The company’s portal enable users to discover and invest in businesses and enables small businesses to offer bonds directly to the public without banks and standard regulatory fees. It also operates a mobile application to provide its services. SMBX, Inc. was formerly known as Peerhood, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Alexandria

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Alexandria allows users to quickly find, comprehend, and understand how a topic evolved over time, through a search mosaic.

HEROTECH8

Private Placement in 2019
HEROTECH8 LTD develops fully automated drone-in-box technology to deliver persistent aerial surveillance services to critical infrastructure and high-security facilities. HEROTECH8 LTD was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Cranfield, United Kingdom.

Blumio

Private Placement in 2018
Blumio, Inc develops non-invasive radio frequency wearable sensor to measure blood pressure and other cardiovascular diagnostics. The company’s sensor uses radar to detect the pressure waves that travel through the blood vessels. It detects and analyzes arterial tissue movements and determines pulse rates. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Granthika

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Smart Editor recognizes characters, places & events, seamlessly building your timeline. Connections lets you add facts or annotations quickly while writing, or saves them for you to address at the end of your session. An Interactive Timeline lets you easily view events collected by their Smart Editor in chronological order. See characters who participated in an event, or quickly shift the dates.

Empire Biotechnologies, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Empire Biotechnologies, Inc. operates in the technology industry. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

NovolBio

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Totally vertically integrated B2C eyewear, no plastic waste. Better, faster, cheaper, greener.

Leada

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Leada provides online courses in data science and analytics. Our courses are differentiated by industry based projects and virtual instructor support. By educating your business professionals with Leada's online data training program. Reliance on the data team causes costly delays in decision making. Analysis that drives business value stops while repetitive tasks deleverage your data scientists. Data pulls are not a two persons task, and should take one person one hour instead of two people one week.

orgo.ai

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
orgo.ai helps hospitals manager operating room staff and room resources through scheduling, analytics, and workflow software.

Wing Assistant

Private Placement in 2020
Wing is a 24/7 mobile assistant powered by humans & AI that handles anything as long as it is legal and possible. Wing automates the process of getting things done on-demand for users with cutting edge technology and a strong partnership network. Wing is the only mobile on-demand concierge service app in the space that learns about the user and leverages AI to improve its service. Wing is also the only service that offers a monthly subscription for unlimited requests, at a price point that is affordable to the mass market.

GiveAir

Non Equity Assistance in 2013
GiveAir

MINWO

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
MINWO's mission is to close the wealth gap for minorities and women in the U.S. by building products that empower them in entrepreneurship, personal finance, and professional development.

3rdiTech

Private Placement in 2020
3rdiTech, a custom CMOS design company, develops image sensors. It offers specialized ASICs for advanced ISR applications, including NIR sensors and large format sensors. The company also provides custom-designed sensors to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The company is based in New Delhi, India.

Monit

Private Placement in 2019
MONIT Corp. manufactures baby monitor products. It offers adult diaper sensors for care facilities to manage patients suffering from incontinence or the inability to express when they have soiled their diaper; baby carrier; and baby monitor sensor that sends notifications too phones when it’s time for diaper change; and monitors air quality and night light. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Quick Flash Technologies

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Quick Flash is a research company that provides smart glass solutions. The company offers color-changing sunglasses with lenses that allow the users to adjust the shade of sunglasses using e-tint technology and a light sensor. Quick Flash Technologies was founded in 2018 by Yeyue Chen, Dayou Wang, and Ruihan Guo.

Obviously AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Obviously AI, Inc., doing business as Obviously AI, develops and delivers cloud-based data science solutions that enable users to run complex predictions and analytics on their data by asking natural language questions without a code. The company’s platform uses data science and machine learning to break down the questions, interpret it, and find the right data in order to resolve. The data is then run through machine learning algorithms to make predictions. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California.

TAGAsoft

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
TAGAsoft was founded in 1981 in Berkeley, California by Dr Robert Pyke a geotechnical engineering consultant. In response to demands from clients he developed a suite a geotechnical engineering applications. Over the years, TAGAsoft has added additional programs to the suite. The name TAGA is short for Telegraph Avenue Geotechnical Associates. Telegraph Avenue, one of the main streets in Berkeley, was the location of the first TAGAsoft office. TAGAsoft is the trading name for TAGA Engineering Software Ltd, a New Zealand registered company.

DeepScribe Inc

Private Placement in 2019
DeepScribe Inc develops artificial intelligence (AI) based application that provides electronic health record (EHR)-ready medical documentation. Its platform allows doctors to keep track of patient needs. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Berkeley, California.

CRadar.AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
CRadar.AI develops an accurate radar sensor for safe driving. The company provides unprecedented accurate location information transforming the radar data from crude to sharp. It enables cars to see their environment accurately under all driving conditions, turning self-driving to safe-driving. CRadar.AI was founded on 2018 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

nCefalon Corporation

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
We are a Silicon Valley based company specializing in advanced medical technology to help epilepsy patients and healthcare service providers. At nCefalon, we believe advance technologies can bring a fundamental change in how epilepsy patients live their daily lives. As a medical software and hardware technology frontier, we are committed to medical innovation and scientific rigor with abiding dedication.

Attacklytics

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Current web application firewall (WAF) is broken. They are not aware of the web application context, have high false positive-rates, require labor-intensive tuning & management, cost a lot, and have very limited extensibility. They are here to re-invent it. Their project features a Lightweight, High-performance Web Application Defense Platform, with Strong Data Engine, and Industry-leading Data Analytics Capabilities. Contact us to learn more about the team and their products.

Myntor

Private Placement in 2019
Myntor, Inc. provides online courses and workshops. It offers courses and workshops in the areas of spring-loaded hinge, coronavirus spread, language translation for emergency room, building a social network for gender equality, robotic arm design, and math; and calculus, algebra, geometry, and computer science. Myntor, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Berkeley, California.

AimHub

Pre Seed Round in 2020
AimHub, Inc. develops machine learning software platform that allows engineers and data scientists to track, compare, monitor, and optimize their ML models. The product provides a repository which can be used to store experiments and their full history. AimHub, Inc. is based in the United States.

Friday Night Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
We are building P2P data marketplaces in high impact verticals, such as compensation. SalaryMonk.com is our first product.

Nextbiotics

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Nextbiotics, a biotechnology platform, engineers viruses to transform viruses into allies. Its platform enables identifying drug resistant bacteria, editing the genome of virus, and using virus to target drug resistant bacteria. The company’s develops a treatment that combines bacteriophage therapy with clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology to reverse antibiotic resistance. It product targets antibiotic-resistant infections. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Thrive Education

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Thrive Education, Inc. operates an online evaluation platform for people with learning differences, such as dyslexia. Its evaluations include tests of cognitive and intellectual ability, phonological awareness, reading comprehension and fluency, listening comprehension, decoding, spelling, vocabulary, and arithmetic. The company’s evaluations also indicate other learning differences, attention issues, and developmental disorders, such as dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD, and a high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Thrive Education, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in Berkeley, California.

SmartPhage, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
SmartPhage, Inc. owns and operates an automated platform for the development of custom synthetic phages. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California.