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Bakar Labs-backed companies raise $1 billion during biotech’s toughest funding stretch

Companies supported by Bakar Labs have raised more than $1 billion in cumulative funding — a figure that reflects capital committed to early-stage science at a time when many comparable companies struggled to maintain momentum.

Students standing next to a screen make their pitch for ReMove to judges at the Berkeley Civic Innovation challenge.

Campus & community

Wildfire safety to move-out waste: UC Berkeley students pitch fixes for top city problems

Students looks down toward a phone during a Big Ideas Demo Day and Award Ceremony. A similar contest will have students work to solve challenges in the city of Berkeley.

Campus & community

In new competition, UC Berkeley students will tackle some of the city’s most pressing challenges

Chancellor Rich Lyons, left, speaks to an audience about startup culture at UC Berkeley while Ana Claudia Arias, center, and Ken Goldberg, right, look on

Campus & community

Chancellor, scholars and alum discuss Berkeley’s culture of innovation

Jensen Huang, dressed in black, against a mostly black background, makes a dramatic presentation

Who has an edge in startups? Teams with both U.S.-born and immigrant founders.

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No. 1 again: UC Berkeley generates more startups and founders than any other university

A copy of the Startup Campus book leans against a stack of six copies, with the Campanile blurred in the background

New book chronicles UC Berkeley’s evolution into a ‘Startup Campus’

People standing in front of a room deliver a closing pitch about the platform SimpleGov.

In uncertain times, these UC Berkeley students are using tech to innovate democratic processes

Ashmita Kumar holds a prize from startup competition at UC Berkeley.

With AI and an iPhone, UC Berkeley student’s startup aims to detect stroke signs and save lives

A person during an event for business startups at UC Berkeley demonstrates a dental implant that her company produces.

UC Berkeley ranked No. 1 for generating startup founders, companies and female entrepreneurs

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UC Berkeley cultivates festive culture of ‘free thinkers’ at AI hackathon

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Berkeley’s Rich Lyons to chair UC innovation, entrepreneurship council

Amrita Bhasin: In the tech and startup world, female representation matters

Gopala Anumanchipalli smiles at the camera

Can computers speak for us?

colorful array of 3D polyhedra, forming a structure like chain mail

New ‘chain mail’ material of interlocking molecules is tough, flexible and easy to make

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CITRIS Invention Lab celebrates 10 years of innovation

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