Berkeley SkyDeck is an accelerator program based in Berkeley, California, focused on supporting startups founded by UC Berkeley students, alumni, and faculty. Established in 2012, it invests up to $100,000 in each selected company through its six-month SkyDeck Cohort Program. The investment is structured in two parts: an initial $50,000 upon acceptance and an additional $50,000 after three months, contingent on the startup's progress. Berkeley SkyDeck also offers a Global Innovative Partner Program and a HotDesk incubator, accommodating around 120 startups annually. As a pioneering in-house accelerator at a public research university, it aims to enhance entrepreneurial success by providing tailored support, access to a vast network of advisors, investors, and various resources to its participants.
InTone offers a personalized AI accent neutralization technology, on a mission to improve communication around the globe. With the global trend of outsourced customer support, InTone brings the quality of offshore customer support calls to a new level. By enhancing understanding between call center agents and customers, companies can reduce the need for language training, while processing more calls and improving customer satisfaction.
Verchable Limited operates as an AI company that uses computer vision to understand videos. It generates automatic metadata tags for users’ videos that helps user to understand what content, objects, and actions are present within their videos. Its technology detects people, places, and actions within videos. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Ariadne Maps UG is a technology company based in Garching bei München, Germany, that specializes in developing, manufacturing, and installing devices capable of sensing signals from smart devices like smartphones. Founded in 2019, the company utilizes advanced artificial intelligence algorithms to enable precise indoor and outdoor localization and tracking in various public venues, including retail stores, shopping centers, airports, and train stations. By providing detailed customer analytics, Ariadne helps businesses optimize their infrastructure to reduce congestion and enhance the customer experience, while also informing advertising and marketing strategies.
Skylab Technologies Inc. is a Vancouver-based computational photography SaaS company that focuses on the next generation of AI-powered photography tools. We develop image processing algorithms using a proprietary dataset of high-resolution images. To date, we have processed over one million portraits for commercial purposes.
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.
Aesop Technology is a developer of artificial intelligence solutions focused on reducing prescription-related errors and enhancing patient safety. Founded in 2019 and based in Berkeley, California, the company offers MedGuard, an AI-enhanced safety system that supports various aspects of prescription management, including prescribing, dispensing, administering, and compliance services. Aesop Technology also provides a clinical decision support system that assists healthcare providers by flagging inappropriate prescriptions based on patient diagnosis, age, and gender. By leveraging machine learning, the company's technology aims to improve healthcare quality and safety while streamlining billing-related documentation, ultimately enhancing patient safety and the accuracy of medical billing.
BearHouse Innovations offers a mobile application for first-time and soon-to-be dads to help them navigate fatherhood. The application provides necessary information and advice to successfully navigate their partner's pregnancy. BearHouse Innovations was founded in 2019 by Charlie Davidman and Joseph Choi and is based in Berkeley, California.
Aila Health, founded in 2019 by Rory Stanton and based in San Francisco, California, operates a virtual specialty care clinic platform focused on patients with autoimmune diseases. The company utilizes artificial intelligence to enhance healthcare decision-making for both providers and patients. Its clinical platform offers access to specialists, health coaches, personalized nutrition, patient education, and remote monitoring devices, all aimed at improving health outcomes and addressing gaps in care. By facilitating seamless remote patient monitoring, Aila Health enables healthcare providers to deliver tailored care management based on individual health histories, genetic profiles, lifestyles, and environmental factors.
TheBOLT is a technology company that allows International freelancers to receive payments from American clients. It was founded in 2018 by Alexey Lebed and is based in Berkeley, California, United States.
4D Sight is a deep advertising platform for live stream gaming and sports content. Our technology embeds ads into the content in a way that feels natural to the game environment.
Dispatch Goods Inc. manufactures reusable steel containers and boxes for food delivery ecosystem. The company offers containers for the elimination of the disposable food ware. It serves restaurants and food trucks. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
BearHand is a software that allows customers to discover home-brewed coffee made by baristas and coffee makers within their local communities. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Berkeley, California.
Avina Labs LLC develops an operations streamlining spreadsheet-powered mobile application for schools, clubs and communities, startups, and sports leagues. Its software is available in two versions that include Mercury and Mars. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Los Gatos, California.
AnnoTex
Pre Seed Round in 2019
AnnoTex is a PDF annotator software that allows users to write math equations and chemical structures. The company was founded by Achyuta Iyengar and Kavi Vaidya and is based in Berkeley, California, United States.
Granthika is a developer of intelligent writing software that enhances storytelling by building connections within texts. Its application integrates the capabilities of an editor, a database, and a timeline creator, utilizing artificial intelligence and deductive reasoning to process text and its underlying knowledge. This functionality allows users to seamlessly recognize characters, places, and events, while creating interactive timelines that display events in chronological order. The software also features tools for adding facts or annotations, enabling writers to streamline their writing process and to address information efficiently. Granthika aims to transform the writing and reading experience for the digital age.
Go360 has developed Synthetic AI cameras that leverage GANs to boost frame rate, resolution and provide image inpainting capabilities to remove artifacts from weather conditions. Additionally, GANs that remove privately identifiable information from the camera input stream can be deployed alongside the CMOS sensor in an ASIC or FPGA chip. The hardware accelerators enable cameras to boost frame rate and upscale images or adversely downsample images and reduce framerate to operate in bandwidth constrained environments. Synthetic augmentation of the camera capabilities can be beneficial to time synchronize cameras where the shutters are also misaligned by synthetically generating frames between real frame captures from the CMOS sensor. We are further pushing the boundaries of what is possible.
Vectorly Inc. is a video learning platform that serves both companies and students, with a focus on enhancing educational experiences through video content. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India, the company was previously known as Dot Learn Inc. Vectorly specializes in video compression technology derived from MIT research, utilizing vector encoding to reduce video file sizes by up to 50 times while enhancing visual quality. This technology is particularly beneficial for non-camera recorded videos, such as animations and screencasts, which comprise a significant portion of online video content. By licensing its software or offering APIs, Vectorly enables video platforms to compress their videos efficiently, thereby lowering content delivery network (CDN) costs and improving the overall user experience.
WhatElse.io is a business productivity solution founded in 2017 and based in Berkeley, California. The company addresses the challenges faced by business users in organizations with over 50 employees, who typically manage customer information across multiple applications. This disarray often leads to inefficient use of time as employees spend significant effort preparing for customer interactions. To combat this, WhatElse.io integrates various applications to streamline data access and enhance productivity. Its flagship product, 1 Page, provides users with a comprehensive summary of each meeting attendee, including relevant emails, CRM data, and necessary files, thereby facilitating efficient preparation. Additionally, 1 Page automatically logs meeting details into the CRM, allowing users to document insights through text or voice notes for future reference. With features like quick setup, minimal IT involvement, and support for multiple languages, WhatElse.io aims to improve CRM adoption and optimize customer engagement, ultimately leading to better data management and revenue forecasting.
Hayden AI Technologies, Inc. is focused on enhancing urban safety and efficiency through its artificial intelligence-powered platform designed for smart cities. The company offers a solution that enables the detection and analysis of traffic violations to support cities in achieving their safety objectives. Its Smart Sense system includes intelligent cameras, smart cloud infrastructure, HD maps, and a web portal accessible to city officials. By integrating its vision-based mobile solution into existing transportation fleets, Hayden AI collects real-time data that aids in improving traffic safety, reducing fatalities, and optimizing transportation efficiency. The technology is applicable across various vehicles, including transit and school buses, street sweepers, garbage trucks, and police cars. Founded in 2019, Hayden AI is headquartered in Berkeley, California, with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan.
Ambidextrous Laboratories, Inc. is a company based in Berkeley, California, founded in 2018. It specializes in developing software that enables AI-based robotic picking specifically for e-commerce applications. By focusing on advanced control systems for object manipulation, Ambidextrous aims to enhance how robots interact with their environments, thereby improving efficiency in various logistical processes.
DeepScribe is bringing the joy of care back to medicine with its artificially intelligent medical scribe. Imagine a world where you visit your patients and come back to your desk to see the entire appointment accurately documented for you in your Electronic Health Record (EHR) System. No frustrating voice dictation services. No expensive human/virtual scribes. No having to remember what you prescribed. That is what they are trying to accomplish at DeepScribe. Learn more at deepscribe.tech
Obviously AI, Inc. specializes in developing cloud-based data science solutions that allow users to perform complex predictions and analytics by asking questions in natural language, without needing coding skills. Founded in 2018 and located in Berkeley, California, the company's platform employs machine learning to interpret user queries, identify relevant data, and run it through algorithms for predictive analysis. This approach enables non-technical business analysts to efficiently make data-driven decisions, enhancing their ability to leverage historical data for better business outcomes.
Vivoo is a wellness assistant that provides custom nutrition advice to the users based on their urine sample analysis. Vivoo translates the user's urine information into personalized nutrition and lifestyle advice that can easily fit in daily life. All of the Vivoo advice has been prepared by registered dieticians, nutritionists, and doctors. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
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.
Storii builds effective software for senior care providers and relatives of those in care. StoriiCare is a software platform for adult day care centers, assisted living providers and care homes. Used as a tool to instruct, record and improve quality of care, it enables care staff to digitally record their care, providing management with oversight and reducing common industry inefficiencies. StoriiCare also connects families to their loved ones, allowing them to contribute to their care and be informed of events in their life.
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.
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.