October 15, 2018
EECS undergraduates Aviral Pandey (EE lead), Olivia Hsu (board design/firmware), Kevin Zheng (board design/software/radio) and Malhar Patel (external/software), as well as Travis Brashears (Eng. Physics/EECS minor, tech lead) and Daniel Shen (MechE, software/mechanical) comprise a team of Berkeley seniors who are creating what they hope will be the smallest maneuverable…
October 8, 2018
EECS alumnus Allen Tsai (B.S. ’00), the founder of startup Pani, is profiled in the “Today’s Entrepreneur” column for startup and investor network, Vator. Pani is a smart-home company that builds products to help consumers and utilities measure, monitor, and recycle water. It recently raised $1 million in seed funding…
October 5, 2018
Turnitin, a leading provider of academic integrity and writing solutions, has acquired Gradescope, a class grading platform co-founded by CS Prof. Pieter Abbeel and alumni Arjun Singh (B.S. EECS ’10/Ph.D. CS ’16), Sergey Karayev (CS Ph.D. ’15), and Ibrahim Awwal (EECS B.S.
October 4, 2018
Corelight, a cybersecurity startup co-founded by CS Prof. Vern Paxson, has won the 2018 Network Security Innovation Award from CyberSecurity Breakthrough, an independent organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global information security market. Corelight delivers “network visibility solutions for cybersecurity” by merging the power of an open…
August 10, 2018
CS alumnus Hriday Kemburu (B.A. ’16) is featured in a Daily Cal article about UC Berkeley’s start up ecosystem titled “‘Dream, build and start up’: Exploring UC Berkeley’s culture of entrepreneurship.’ Kemburu is the CEO of Wildfire, which began as a UC Berkeley-specific safety app during Kemburu’s senior year…
August 7, 2018
CS alumnus Hanzhong (Ayden) Ye (M.S. ’12, advisor: Björn Hartmann) is profiled in an ejinsight article titled “Former Silicon Valley executives build VR version of YouTube.” In 2016, Ye gave up his lucrative job with Sierra Ventures in Silicon Valley to establish VeeR VR, a Virtual Reality content sharing platform in…
July 9, 2018
Oasis Labs Inc., a startup co-founded and led by Prof. Dawn Song to build a high-performance cloud computing platform on blockchain, announced that it has raised $45 million in funding. Oasis is building a cloud-based blockchain platform intended to outdo existing distributed-ledger implementations in two key areas: performance and privacy. Song…
June 28, 2018
The House Fund has backed a $875,000 pre-seed round for Elph, a startup co-founded by two EECS alumni: Ritik Malhotra (B.S. ’15) and Tanooj Luthra (B.S. ’13). Elph operates a portal for accessing decentralized apps known as Ethereum dApps. It provides a place to store digital assets (cryptocurrencies, tokens, collectibles),…
June 28, 2018
Everlaw, a legal-tech startup founded by alumnus AJ Shankar (CS Ph.D. ’09, advisor: Rastislav Bodik), has raised $25 million in a series B funding round. Berkeley-based Everlaw was established in 2011 as a cloud-based e-discovery platform that lets lawyers easily organize and search through millions of documents, videos, emails, and…
June 27, 2018
CS Assistant Prof. Alessandro Chiesa has been named to the 2018 roster of MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35.” The list acknowledges “exceptionally talented young innovators whose work we believe has the greatest potential to transform the world.” Chiesa, who co-founded Zcash, was cited in the Pioneers category for…