2012 Competition Winners
Congratulations to the WINNERS of the
14th Annual
UC Berkeley Startup Competition!
GRAND PRIZE WINNER: Calcula Technologies
Track Winners:
IT & WEB: Kloudless, Inc.
LIFE SCIENCES: Calcula Technologies
ENERGY & CLEANTECH: HARBO Technologies
PRODUCTS & SERVICES: Back to the Roots
PEOPLE'S CHOICE WINNER: Back to the Roots
ELEVATOR PITCH WINNER: Nanoly
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2012 Competition Finalists
| Team | Track | Company Abstract |
Kloudless, Inc. |
IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
Kloudless is a free service that helps you manage all the things you put in the cloud. We enable users to search for, access, and manage their information that is spread across the Internet. We’re starting with email attachments, the black hole of cloud services, and will expand to other cloud services in the near future. Our solution addresses an increasingly large problem as more and more information moves into the cloud. |
Traverie |
IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
Traverie is an explorer focused startup that leverages the emotional, personal and inherently social aspects of travel discovery to make the process visual, fun and trustworthy. We bring structure to the current ad hoc and offline model of discovering and selecting destinations. We blend user-generated content, professional content and advertising to deliver a compelling user experience. Our founding team comprises a designer, engineer and product manager from MIT, Harvard and Berkeley-Haas, respectively. |
AdrenaRx |
Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
AdrenaRx is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the prevention and treatment of heart failure due to toxicity from cancer chemotherapy. Each year, 1.6 million Americans are affected by cancer, and a third of these patients receive chemotherapy that can damage their heart. AdrenaRx has identified a new therapeutic target and a potent, selective drug that can protect the heart from damage by chemotherapy, and reduce a patient’s risk of developing heart failure after surviving cancer. |
Calcula Technologies |
Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
Calcula Technologies is developing a novel urological medical device for the removal of kidney stones outside of the operating room. Our patent pending technology will treat 4M patients/year in the US and EU. With clear FDA predicates and existing CPT reimbursement codes Calcula will be a major disruption in the field of Urology. |
Claro Energy |
Energy | Claro Energy provides solar-powered water pumping solutions to meet irrigation needs of farmers in remote power-deficit agriculture areas in India where costly diesel generated power is the default choice. Claro Energy’s solar-powered pumps have near zero operating costs, are longer lasting and highly reliable when compared to dieselpowered pumps. In combination with sales, marketing and business development competencies, Claro Energy has also developed in-house integration and implementation expertise in remote rural regions of India. |
HARBO Technologies |
Energy | During the first critical hours, oil-spills spread, split, and create escalating irreversible damage. HARBO develops the only emergency oil-spill containment solution for immediate response. HARBO’s Zero Time to Spill system is at standby position on-board oil-tankers/rigs and other ships and deploys a boom (floating barrier) within minutes to contain spills. HARBO’s advantage: Minimizing environmental damage, avoiding large containment/cleanup expenses, offering superb costefficiency and preventing a PR nightmare. “Containing oil-spills when they’re small, preventing big disasters.” |
Back to the Roots |
Products & Services | Back to the Roots, started by two Haas Business School undergrads, promotes sustainability and zero-waste, while reconnecting people to food through its grow-at-home mushroom kit. Our gourmet mushroom kits are made with 100% recycled coffee grounds, and produce 2 pounds of fresh oyster mushrooms in just 10 days! People of all ages can actually grow and eat their own mushrooms all at home, a unique experience in today’s urban lifestyle. |
Modify |
Products & Services | Modify is a brand built on freedom of expression. Customizable for individual style, Modify’s interchangeable watches offer dope design for anyday wear. Available in two different sizes and over 250 combinations, Modify is a brand made for anyone—anytime, anyplace. A proponent of exceptional personalized service, we engage organizations and fans to help create (and name!) watches. Modify Watches are available for corporate gifting and licensing. |
2012
Competition
Semi-Finalists
| Team | Track | Company Abstract |
| Better Cater | IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
Better Cater Food Catering Software streamlines your operations with just a few clicks. Better Cater catering software is automatic, fast and accurate. (link to company website) |
| ConcertCrowd | IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
ConcertCrowd is a Facebook app that helps you and your friends discover live music around you. Recently launched in late 2011 with over 3,000 users, ConcertCrowd was featured on Mashable and recently selected as a 2012 SXSW Accelerator Finalist. |
| GradeFund | IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
GradeFund (www.gradefund.com) is the leading community-based approach to student education financing that naturally encourages academic success. |
| Intellievents | IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
Intellievents maximizes the way people experience their favorite events by transforming how event organizers and marketers interact and learn from their customers – in real-time. |
| Kloudless, Inc. | IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
Kloudless helps you manage all the stuff you put into the cloud. We're like Dropbox for the information in your favorite cloud sources. |
| Mashlytics | IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
Mashlytics is a web-based practice management tool enabling sustainable delivery of personalized medicine. |
| Memeja | IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
Memeja is a social networking site that aims to unify users from around the world by identifying with common themes and ideas. It allows users to share stories through memes, creating a meaningful user-driven compendium of the human experience. |
| Touch-Auth | IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
Touch-Auth is a "virtual" credit check to assess the online trustworthiness of web visitors |
| Traverie | IT & Web sponsored by DCM |
Traverie provides a unique visual way to find new places and experiences through trusted sources like friends and family. The goal of Traverie is to help users visually discover, research, share and reminisce their travels. |
| AdrenaRx | Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
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| Archon Medical | Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
The Future of Suture |
| Biomarque | Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
Biomarque is an Innovative technology to advance high-throughput proteomics for biomarker validation and diagnostics. |
| Calcula Technologies | Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
Calcula is developing novel urological medical devices. |
| EvolveMol | Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
EvolveMol rapidly evolves microorganisms to produce small molecules for the bioenergy and pharmaceutical industries. |
| Hemova Medical | Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
Hemova revolutionizes dialysis access. Saving lives. |
| J2P International | Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
Breaking barriers to mobilize healthcare. |
| Muscularix | Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
Muscularix engineers the optimal regenerative niche. |
| Nanoly | Life Sciences sponsored by Claremont Creek Ventures |
Nanoly is a nano-sized solution to solve a macro-sized Problem: enabling cheap, convenient, and safe delivery of vaccines to anywhere in the world. |
| Adaptation Energy | Energy | We are revolutionizing the wireless sensor and maintenance industries by patenting and implementing a "one-size fits all" self-tuning vibration harvester to power our products. |
| Aurinko | Energy | Aurinko will produce innovative and game-changing products that can dramatically reduce financial and human cost for the US military, integrating high efficiency solar and battery technologies into man-portable energy harvesting and storage devices. |
| CalSolAgua | Energy | Bringing affordable solar water heating to the developing world. |
| Claro Energy | Energy | Solar Power Irrigation Water Pumping |
| HARBO Technologies | Energy | Containing marine oil spills when they’re small, preventing big disasters. |
| myLinkx | Energy | Simple, Affordable and Fun Smart Homes |
| S2E Energy | Energy | We make a foundational solar cell component (S2E Solar FilmTM) that enables solar energy to be lower cost than grid electricity. |
| Wifinity | Energy | An Energy Efficiency venture providing next generation intelligent wireless demand-side management solutions |
| Back to the Roots | Products & Services | Mushroom Kits on 100% Recycled Coffee Grounds! |
| Fresh Picks | Products & Services | Fresh Picks aims to provide affordable, convenient, and healthy lunches to everyday office workers |
| Greenhouse | Products & Services | Healthy, local and sustainable meals at affordable pricing |
| MD Local | Products & Services | MD Local seeks to put primary care in your control by providing easy access to physicians through the use of telemedicine technology at home or at conveniently placed virtual kiosks |
| Modify | Products & Services | Modify is the leading interchangeable watch brand. With over 400 available combinations, everyone (yes, everyone) can find great wrist fashion(s) they love |
| Nature's Cradle | Products & Services | Providing rest and comfort to newborns and their parents |
| ResolutionTube | Products & Services | Mobile and Cloud Computing Technology that exponentially increases the efficiency of manufacturing companies |
| University Gateway | Products & Services | Collaborative Consumption Admissions Prep |
| Vescue | Products & Services | Vescue is a mobile phone app that offers an emergency calling service, attached with individual medical records, in the event of a car accident |
| Yaygo | Products & Services | Yaygo will reevaluate the needs of public transit users to provide better transportation using smartphones. Yaygo hopes to provide a reliable, on-demand, comfortable and safe mode of travel with the flexibility of a taxi and the efficiency of a bus |