Groupe INSEEC creates a Foundation to foster entrepreneurial mindset and innovative partnerships in Silicon Valley INSEEC appoints Alain Labat, an INSEEC Alumnus as President of the INSEEC Foundation. (Silicon Valley, Paris — December 13, 2016) Groupe INSEEC has created a foundation to give itself a new tool...
The CITRIS Foundry is hosting a Demo Day to celebrate the graduation of our Fall 2015 cohort. The Demo Day will serve as an opportunity for teams to share short presentations about their companies and showcase their accomplishments. They will be available to discuss both...
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015 from 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 The CITRIS Foundry is hosting a Demo Day to celebrate the graduation of our Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 cohorts. The Demo Day will serve as an opportunity for...
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Kvamme Atrium (3rd Floor), Sutardja Dai Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 The Foundry at CITRIS is hosting a Demo Day to celebrate the graduation of our Spring 2014 cohort! The Demo Day will serve as an opportunity for all 4 teams to share short...
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...
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...
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...
The road to start-up success is littered with great ideas. Turning an idea into a prototype, a viable business plan, and an effective pitch for funding is hard enough; converting that plan into a profitable business is more difficult still. That’s why the stats on...
Companies from The Foundry@CITRIS were winners in the 2014 UC Berkeley Startup Competition (LAUNCH). LAUNCH is one of the foremost UC Berkeley events for university-affiliated early stage startups with a long history dating back to 1999. This year, more than 200 companies applied with 36 companies competing...