February 20th-22nd, 2015 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley Come hack the Android InWatch Z SmartWatch to develop innovative and fun applications for wearable devices. Each participating team will be loaned an InWatch Z Smartwatch to hack and develop a unique project over the course of a weekend. The #CampusInWatch Hackathon...
Our friends over at Free Ventures are ramping up for another cycle this semester, and they are currently accepting applications! Check them out below: Free Ventures is a student-run, non-profit startup incubator that provides students with funds, resources, and mentors to turn an idea or prototype into a...
Thursday, February 12, 2015 12-1PM Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Come hear Marc Tarpenning CS'85, Co-Founder & Former VP of Electrical Engineering of Tesla Motors, share his experience as an entrepreneur co-founding the most disruptive and innovative company in the auto industry within the last 100 years. Mr. Tarpenning ran...
When the Foundry at CITRIS started in 2013, our goal was to help entrepreneurs from the University of California build companies that make a significant impact on the world. Our mission is to help companies tackle big problems in industries ranging from clean tech to...
This past month was quite a month at The Foundry. We co-hosted Cal Hacks, hosted international visitors, had our CITRIS retreat at UC Merced, held the final week of the Intel Make-It-Wearable Challenge, welcomed Max Levchin to Cal and, oh yeah...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 5-6:30PM Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Come hear Jack McCauley, VP of Engineering for Oculus, share his 30+ years of experience shaping the video gaming and entertainment-wear industries. Jack's talk will include time for Q&A and a demo of the latest...
Fireside Chat with Max Levchin: Data, Fintech, & How to Solve Hard, Valuable & Fun Problems Thanks to low-cost sensors of every imaginable type, near-ubiquitous wireless broadband, advances in distributed computing and storage, data is becoming our most plentiful, and most under-exploited commodity. The insights mined...
Gagan Biyani, Co-Founder and CEO, Sprig; and Co-Founder of Udemy Matt Kent, Co-Founder and Engineering Lead, Sprig Join us for refreshments and conversation with Gagan Biyani, Econ '08, co-founder of two of the hottest startups in the Bay Area--Sprig and Udemy--and creator of the popular Growth Hackers Conference. Along the...
On Wednesday, Sept. 10 from 5-6PM, The Foundry@CITRIS, CET Venture Lab and Berkeley Skydeck will be co-hosting the first in a year-long series of monthly presentations by WilmerHale on legal issues that startup founders need to know. This month, Joe Wyatt, Partner of the Corporate Practice Group at WilmerHale, will be speaking...
Oakland, CA - Today Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) toured the UC Berkeley’s research and innovation facilities including the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), CITRIS Invention Lab and the Marvell Nanofabrication Lab. This tour was part of the Democratic Make it...