Dr. Capella Kerst, founder of revolutionary bioinspired dry adhesive company, geCKo Materials, has had a year of fast-paced success. She tripled her company’s team, finished a funding round, and unveiled four new high-fidelity solutions using geCKo Materials Dry Adhesive (gMDA) on the main stage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. Sporting degrees from UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford,…
Picture this: you’re taking a bathroom break during class and unexpectedly get your period. You don’t have any menstrual products on you, the basket of free pads in the bathroom is empty, and the coin-operated metal tampon dispenser has been out of order for years. Frantically, you scramble for another on-campus solution, missing a good…
Flood safety company Terranova is ready to “reshape the world” in 2025, with $7 million raised from VCs and angel investors. Founder and CEO Laurence Allen (Mechanical Engineering ‘24), who was a finalist in Collider Cup XV with this startup last fall, plans to use this prime time to expand Terranova’s projects. “We closed the…
Tyla-Simone Crayton can’t be limited. The three-time founder graduated from UC Berkeley this spring with a degree in Business Administration, a minor in Science Technology and Society, and three certificates. Now, she’s opening the second location of Sienna Wings as the youngest restaurant owner in Houston. From being a homeschooled entrepreneur for her brand Sienna…
Clinical decision-making, customer support, technical management: uses of AI in healthcare are growing rapidly. But a large-scale shift requires massive resource input. Electricity consumption in data centers, for example, has increased by 116 trillion million kilowatts since 2016. A new paper co-authored by SCET faculty Shomit Ghose analyzes the question: what trade-offs can health system…
From experimenting with high-protein recipes in his kitchen back in high school to signing with major nutrition companies this year, Adi Banerjee (Neuroscience and Nutrition ’28) has always been pushing for progress with his protein bar startup Posana. Earlier this year, Posana was verified by UC Berkeley as meeting their Food and Beverage Choices Policy…
With years of business education and practical startup experience under his belt, project manager Samuel Nagy was uncertain about what the Startup Semester at UC Berkeley might offer him. Last fall, he was successfully pursuing a masters’ in Data and Analytics at the Prague University of Economics and Business and working for local data governance…
With its revolutionary platform that equips first responders with comprehensive real-time insights during disaster scenarios, it’s no wonder that RescueSight was voted the “Most Innovative Technology” at Collider Cup XV. Co-founders and best friends Alper Gel (‘26 Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences / Bioengineering) and Charlie McDonald (‘26 Applied Math / Computer Science) have been…
“Exactly 632,940 minutes have passed since I welcomed you with the words, ‘You are at the start.’ Now it is time to say, ‘You are at the finish line.’” Academic director Ota Novotný’s fittingly data-driven speech honored a new batch of graduates from the MBA program in Data & Analytics for Business Management at the…
