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Posts by Andrew Kirillov

Arrow Capital Accepting Applications

By Andrew Kirillov | October 21, 2019

Since its founding in October 2018, Arrow Capital invested in a total of ten impressive startup companies, four of which were student-founded. Looking at this current school year, we are…

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The Berkeley Gateway to Innovation (BEGIN) is the portal to the entrepreneurship community at UC Berkeley.

The goal of BEGIN is to help students, faculty, researchers, and other innovators understand the resources available at Berkeley to support educating entrepreneurs, commercializing research, and advancing startups.

BEGIN is funded in part by the State of California Assembly Bill 2664 for entrepreneurship and innovation expansion at the University of California, Berkeley .

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Berkeley SkyDeck

Big Ideas Contest

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California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)

CITRIS Foundry

Cleantech to Market

Cyclotron Road

Energy and Biosciences Institute Entrepreneurial Business Incubator (EBI2)

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Health Engine

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HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science

LAUNCH

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Alumni Networks

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Handshake

StEP

UCB Startup Fair

Commercialization

Bakar Labs

Intro to Lean Startup: NSF I-Corps Method

Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center

New Business Community Law Clinic

Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances

PhDX

StEP

Community

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Berkeley Discovery

Berkeley Entrepreneurs Association

Decode

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Council

Competitions

Big Ideas Contest

Cal Hacks

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FastTracking Founders Program

Haas Venture Fellows

Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp

StEP

Venture Capital Investment Competition

Inclusion

Berkeley Changemaker(TM)

EDGE in Tech Initiative at U.C.

Free Ventures Fellowship

Funding to Black & Latinx Founders

HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science

Tech Transfer (IPIRA) DEI Page

Tory Burch Fellowship

Funding

UC Berkeley Affiliated Funds*

Berkeley Catalyst Fund I

Berkeley Catalyst Fund II

Berkeley Frontier Fund

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund I

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund II

Blue Bear Ventures

California Innovation Fund

Grants & Fellowships

Bakar Fellows

Intro to Lean Startup: NSF I-Corps Method

Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances

SBIR/STTR Grants

Student & Alumni Funds

Berkeley Angel Network

Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Startup Seed Fund

Berkeley Venture Capital

Dorm Room Fund

Erupture Ventures

Haas Impact Investing Network

House Fund

I School Innovators

Other UC Berkeley-active Funds

Bee Partners

Better Ventures

Bow Capital

Double Bottom Line Ventures

Ironfire Ventures

Kapor Capital

Life Science Angels

Osage University Partners

Labs, Space & Prototyping

Berkeley Research Infrastructure Commons

Berkeley Startup Cluster

Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center

CalTestBed

CITRIS Invention Lab

Health Tech CoLab

HS Chau Women in Enterprising Science

Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

Marvell Nanolab

ME Student Machine Shop

QB3 Cell and Tissue Analysis Facility

QB3 Garage@Berkeley

QB3 High-Throughput Screening Facility

Tory Burch Fellowship

New Venture Education

AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship & Development

Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship

Berkeley Institute of Data Science

Berkeley Master of Design

Berkeley Postdoc Entrepreneurs Program

Big Ideas Contest

Blum Center Social Innovator OnRamp

EDGE in Tech Initiative at U.C.

Free Ventures Fellowship

Fung Fellowship

Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership

Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation

Learn2Launch

Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center

Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology Program

Master of Engineering program

Ollie Legal

Robinson Life Science, Business, and Entrepreneurship Program

SkyDeck ACE Intern Program

Startup@Berkeley Law

Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology

*All seven of these funds share about 1/2 of General Partner carry/return with UC Berkeley.

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