All Episodes

Biotech's New Rules: Tight Capital, Hard Science, AI, and Survival in 2026

Cold Plasma Meets Machine Learning: The SirenOpt Story of Solving Manufacturing's Nanoscale Blind Spot

Designing the Future of Drug Delivery: How AI is Solving RNA's Biggest Challenge

Solving the CRISPR delivery problem using a proprietary peptide-based platform

Altitude Lab Fund- Supporting healthcare founders in challenging times

Partnering to accelerate therapeutics: A primer on forming alliances and their management

From Pitches to Stories: Transforming Complex Ideas into Engaging Narratives

Turning great science into impactful medicine: Lessons from Corey Goodman, Pioneer in Science and Venture Capital

Pushing Boundaries: Abhishek Tripathi's Experience with NASA, SpaceX, UC Berkeley and Startups

Lessons from Evolution of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem at UC Berkeley

Civilization Ventures: Lessons learned from founding, exiting and applying them to support founders as an investor

Humba Ventures: Investing in Deep Tech Startups with Engineering Focus

Berkeley Skydeck- Catalyzing the growth of deep tech startups at the world's number one ranked public university.

Medtech Innovator and Biotools Innovator: accelerator for medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies

Metcela - Treating chronic organ diseases using a novel fibroblast-based technology

Lessons learned from a scientist entrepreneur turned investor

NAMUH - Attempt at closing the gap between infant formula and human breast milk

NASA fueling innovation through SBIR/STTR, Awards & Prizes

Independent directors for startups

Feeding our astronauts - Reflections of a NASA food scientist

Developing foundational tools for engineering metabolism inside cells to solve important societal problems.

PCDworks: Hardtech Basecamp Incubator for building hardware products

VeriSIM Life: Using AI to build translational indices to push better drug moieties into clinicals

Osage University Partners- Funding university spinouts

Lucira Health

Legal 101 for deeptech founders; Understanding the basics; dilution, and safeguarding employee equity

Cuberg- Next generation Lithium metal battery technology for the electric mobility industry

Gradient- Building smart heat pumps that use better coolants to cool and heat the world

Valitor- Engineering better medicines by leveraging its multi-valent biopolymer technology

Translating lessons learnt on diversity from academia to startups and the tech world.

[REPLAY] Building the startup muscle for academic founders.

Nucleate Bio- A collaborative student-led organization that facilitates the formation of pioneering life sciences companies

Activate- Empowering scientists to bring their research to market

National Security Innovation Capital (NSIC)- Funding dual-use hardware startups

Market intelligence reports for startups - Arkady Hagopian

Revolutionizing organ preservation and transplantation by mimicking antifreeze proteins of Arctic fish

Building the Bay Area Life Sciences Startup Ecosystem

RH Capital (a Rhia Venture Fund): Investing in reproductive and maternal health

Caribou Biosciences- Developing CRISPR based genome-edited, off-the-shelf immune cell therapies for the treatment of cancer.

Nodexus- Benchtop single cell sorting and dispensing

Raydiant Oximetry- Preventing unnecessary C-Sections and making childbirth safer

Ignite Immunotherapy- Success story of novel "build to buy" business model with Pfizer

UbiQD- Leveraging quantum dots to improve crop yield & harvesting sunlight to generate electricity

Calwave Energy- Unlocking the power of ocean by harvesting energy from waves

Horizon Partners- M&A for bootstrapped technology companies

University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners- Investing and supporting startups from the seed/early stages in academia in Japan and abroad.

Ayar Labs: Disrupting semiconductor and computing industries while dramatically reducing energy usage

Bakar Bioenginuity Hub- Accelerating research to realization

Nelumbo: Keeping the world cool by mitigating frost and corrosion challenges with heat exchangers in Air Conditioners

New Sun Road- A startup building technologies to provide energy (renewable energy) and internet access to remote and developing communities.

Nitrase Therapeutics: Story of a scientist turned entrepreneur whose persistence led to the discovery of a new class of enzymes and potential therapeutics

Scalmibio: An oncology biotech (antibody prodrugs) startup from idea to exit that originated from the founder's own fight with cancer

Enabling Awesome through MBC Biolabs, Mission Bio Capital & Mission Bay Capital

Rocket Fund- helping academic innovators in the cleantech and sustainability space turn their technologies into commercial realities through grants, mentoring and education.

Designing hardware: "Idea to prototype"

Mission Bio- Startup providing cancer researchers with the only multi-omics single-cell technology solution that simultaneously detects SNV, CNV, and protein data from the same cell.

Lessons learnt from designing electronics, firmware, and software with a focus on wearable devices.

4DMT- Gene therapy company that customizes AAV vectors to target specific tissues associated with the underlying diseases.

Unshackled Ventures- VC firm investing in immigrant entrepreneurs

Building the startup muscle for academic founders.

Illumina accelerator for genomics startups

Molecular Foundry: Nanoscience research facility

XCell Biosciences - Cell culturing technology to enhance drug screening and the performance of cell therapies

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