Meet some of our top National teams & learn more about:

• How a *free* monthly Lean Startup training can jumpstart your STEM innovation

• How National training & a $50k grant can power your team to SBIR & funding success

• How you can get involved as a team, team member or Industry Mentor

• The GEM Inclusion in Innovation Initiative (I4) initiative & meet the UC Berkeley Fellows

Agenda

2:00 PM - 2:25 PM Academic teams presos/panel/audience Q&A

2:25 PM - 2:35 PM GEM I4 overview & Fellows Introduction (Dr. Marquita Qualls)

2:35 PM - 3:00 PM Non-Academic/Community teams presos/panel/audience Q&A

Academic:

Cruz Foam (UC Santa Cruz)

Neptune Flow Systems (Stanford)

POW Genetics (UC Berkeley)

Non-Academic/Community:

Coreshell Technologies (UC Berkeley)

Epixego (Berkeley Haas)

Respira Labs (UC Berkeley)

Aether Biomachines (UC Santa Cruz)

NSF I-Corps trains early-stage teams with a fundamental STEM innovation how to search for a scalable business model through Steve Blank's Lean Startup methods.

Intro to Lean Startup: offered monthly; 3 evenings/15 customer discovery interviews

National I-Corps: offered quarterly; 7 weeks/$50k grant/100 customer discovery interviews

(Successful completion of the Introductory course and an instructor's recommendation is required to apply to National I-Corps)

GEM’s Inclusion In Innovation Initiative (I4), is a cooperative partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a national diversity and inclusion infrastructure for the Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program. This program supports academic researchers in launching successful tech startups through entrepreneurial training providing them with critical skills for translating their research discoveries from the laboratory to the marketplace.