Episodes

Sept. 20, 2022

Market intelligence reports for startups - Arkady Hagopian

Arkady Hagopian is an experienced professional in the market intelligence reports space both in industry and academic startup sectors. In this episode of lab to startup, we will talk about what market intelligence reports are; the building blocks of...

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Sept. 6, 2022

Revolutionizing organ preservation and transplantation by mimicking a…

Xiaoxi Wei, Ph.D (CEO) and Mark Kline, Ph.D. (CTO) are the cofounders of X-Therma, a biotechnology startup developing a breakthrough technology for regenerative medicine and organ preservation. In this episode of lab to startup, we talk about the...

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Aug. 23, 2022

Building the Bay Area Life Sciences Startup Ecosystem

Regis Kelly and Doug Crawford have been instrumental in building the Bay Area life sciences startup ecosystem over the past two decades. They continue to grow this ecosystem, making it easier for aspiring founders to translate their research to...

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Aug. 9, 2022

RH Capital (a Rhia Venture Fund): Investing in reproductive and mater…

Alice Zheng is a Principal at RH Capital, a venture fund investing in early-stage high-impact companies across the reproductive and maternal health landscape. Alice holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and MD and MPH from the University of...

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July 26, 2022

Caribou Biosciences- Developing CRISPR based genome-edited, off-the-s…

My guest today is Rachel Haurwitz, co-founder, President and CEO of Caribou Biosciences. Caribou is a CRISPR genome editing company spun out of Jennifer Doudna’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley. In this episode of lab to startup, we...

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July 12, 2022

Nodexus- Benchtop single cell sorting and dispensing

Karthik Balakrishnan (CEO) and Anand Kesavaraju (Chief Strategy Officer) are the co-founders of Nodexus, a Biotechnology startup that is developing scientific tools to accelerate biological workflows and make them universally accessible. Their first...

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June 28, 2022

Raydiant Oximetry- Preventing unnecessary C-Sections and making child…

Dr. Neil Ray is the Founder and CEO of Raydiant Oximetry, a medical device company that has developed a safe and non-invasive technology that directly monitors babies’ oxygenation during childbirth. This prevents unnecessary C-sections for women...

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June 14, 2022

Ignite Immunotherapy- Success story of novel “build to buy” business …

Dr. David Kirn MD, is the founder, CEO and Chairman of Ignite Immunotherapeutics, which was recently acquired by Pfizer. David is a Physician-scientist and a serial biotech entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in the industry with a focus …

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May 31, 2022

UbiQD- Leveraging quantum dots to improve crop yield & harvesting sun…

My guest today is Hunter McDaniel, the founder and CEO of UbiQD, a startup exploiting quantum dots to improve agricultural yield in greenhouses and generating electricity by embedding them into windows. In this episode of Lab to startup, we talk …

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April 12, 2022

Calwave Energy- Unlocking the power of ocean by harvesting energy fro…

In this episode of lab to startup, we talk to Marcus Lehmann, the Co-founder and CEO of Calwave Energy. Calwave is unlocking the power of the ocean by harvesting the dense energy packed in waves, which is about 30-60 times …

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March 29, 2022

Horizon Partners- M&A for bootstrapped technology companies

Sandy Kory is a Managing Director and co-founder of Horizon Partners; and most recently announced a new Seed Stage Venture Capital Fund HorizonVC, where he is a General Partner. Sandy has been advising bootstrapped technology companies for...

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March 8, 2022

University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners- Investing and supporting s…

Keis Ide is a partner at UTEC, a Japanese Venture capital firm investing in deep tech across the world. Keis focuses on innovative technologies as well as IT-enabled solutions. He spent 15 years in the US, half of which in …

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Feb. 22, 2022

Ayar Labs:  Disrupting semiconductor and computing industries while d…

Alexandra Wright Gladstein is the founding CEO of Ayar Labs. Alex met her co-founders, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was pursuing her MBA. We talk about the research that resulted in launching …

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Feb. 8, 2022

Bakar Bioenginuity Hub- Accelerating research to realization

Prof. Amy Herr is the Executive Director of the Bakar Bioenginuity Hub (BBH) and Prof. Regis Kelly is the Director of Bakar Labs at the University of California, Berkeley. BBH is a new campus initiative that aims to launch the …

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Jan. 25, 2022

Nelumbo: Keeping the world cool by mitigating frost and corrosion cha…

Liam Berryman (CEO) and Lance Brockway, Ph.D. (CTO) are the co-founders of Nelumbo, a startup developing an advanced materials platform focused on improving the energy performance and minimizing corrosion challenges with heat exchangers in Air...

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Jan. 11, 2022

New Sun Road- A startup building technologies to provide energy (rene…

Jalel Sager, Ph.D. (CEO), Austin Cappon (Networks & hardware), and Jonathan Lee (Senior R&D Engineer) are the co-founders of a California based startup, New Sun Road (NSR). They develop cloud-based technology systems designed to distribute...

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Dec. 21, 2021

Nitrase Therapeutics: Story of a scientist turned entrepreneur whose …

is the founder and CSO of Nitrase Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company deploying its unique NITROME platform to unlock the therapeutic potential of nitrases, a new class of enzymes discovered in-house that offer the promise of a pipeline of...

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Dec. 14, 2021

Scalmibio: An oncology biotech (antibody prodrugs) startup from idea …

Summary: Marija Vrljic, Ph.D., is the co-founder and CEO of Scalmibio, an early-stage biotechnology startup that developed a transformational technology focused on oncology applications. We talk about the inspiration for launching the startup,...

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Nov. 23, 2021

Enabling Awesome through MBC Biolabs, Mission Bio Capital & Mission B…

Douglas Crawford, Ph.D., is the General Manager of MBC Biolabs, Managing Partner of Mission BioCapital, a VC fund investing in life sciences startups at the seed and Series A stages. We talk about the facilities that help scientists at MBC …

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Nov. 16, 2021

Rocket Fund- helping academic innovators in the cleantech and sustain…

Stephanie Yanchinski is the Director of Entrepreneurship of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at the California institute of technology. We cover the details of the Rocket Fund grants, application process, funding criteria, timelines, partners that add

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Nov. 9, 2021

Designing hardware: "Idea to prototype"

Mark Brinkerhoff is the President of Fusion Design, a consultancy that has helped design over 1500 hardware products from concept to creation stages. We cover the concept of design, building the requirement documents (MRD, PRD), prototyping,...

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Nov. 2, 2021

Mission Bio- Startup providing cancer researchers with the only multi…

Mission Bio is a startup that pioneered high throughput single cell sequencing. We talk about how they are helping researchers and clinicians unlock single-cell biology to enable the discovery, development, and delivery of precision medicine; the...

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Oct. 26, 2021

Lessons learnt from designing electronics, firmware, and software wit…

- Most challenging projects are the ones where the customer/client doesn't listen. - Current and future states of wearable industry and future - Remote monitoring of patients is here to stay (thanks to COVID) and wearables are going to play …

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Oct. 19, 2021

4DMT- Gene therapy company that customizes AAV vectors to target spec…

Prof. David Schaffer and Dr. David Kirn are the co-founders of 4D Molecular Therapeutics (4DMT). We cover the founding story, underlying technology development, funding from research grants to IPO, partnerships with pharma and biotech companies, lessons f

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