Connor Landgraf (MEng ’14), CEO of Eko Devices, created his startup while taking the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (CET)’s IEOR 190E (Mobile Apps) course and now a student in the Master of Engineering program, Landgraf is part of a capstone team that is working to commercialize the technology. His current MEng capstone project advisor… Read More »
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Kanga Kare Visits Thailand to Test IncuPack
(The Kanga Kare team tests their IncuPack in a rural hospital in Ngao, Thailand.) Kanga Kare, the winners of the CET Social Entrepreneurship Challenge course (IEOR 190C), visited Thailand to test their revolutionary IncuPack – an incubation vest for newborn babies in rural areas of the world. More than 130 million infants are born every… Read More »
Ken Singer & Richard Swart Quoted on Changes Crowdfunding Is Bringing About
Taken from crowdexpert.com The leading example is the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Courses at their Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology help students gain an understanding of crowdfunding practices and how to use them in the early stages of entrepreneurial finance. The program, led by the College of Engineering’s Fung Institute… Read More »
Crowdfunding: How a radical new finance model is changing product development, research and the arts
Fung Institute's Richard Swart is interviewed by Elisabeth Lopez of the University of Melbourne's Up Close. He describes the explosive growth of crowdfunding in its very short history and explains how crowd-sourced funding is radically and irrevocably changing how business is done. Link to Interview
MEng ’14 Student’s Team Wins the Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition
Congratulations to Jennifer Wong (MEng ’14) and her fellow UCB students for winning the Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition! Taken from MEng Student Experience Blog During the last weekend of January, I was part of a team that flew to Chicago to compete for first prize at the Kellogg Biotech & Healthcare Case Competition.… Read More »
CET Venture Lab Alumnus named to Forbes Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs
Christopher Ategeka, a CET Venture Lab alumni, was named to Forbes 30 under 30 for Social Entrepreneurship! Way to go Chris! LINK
First Empirical Country Level Study of Crowdfunding in UK
UC Berkeley’s Fung Institute partnered with Nesta, the UK’s leading institute studying innovation, and the University of Cambridge to produce the first empirical country level study of crowdfunding and other forms of social finance. The full report was released on December 13, 2013 and shows that equity crowdfunding grew over 600% in the UK and… Read More »
UC Berkeley, Nesta and the University of Cambridge jointly launch the UK Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey
Press Release Berkeley, London and Cambridge. The world’s leading entrepreneurial and social finance research center at the University of California, Berkeley is partnering with Nesta and the University of Cambridge to launch the UK Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey. Opens on 25 November and closes on 5 December, this benchmarking survey aims to capture the size,… Read More »
How is Crowdfunding Changing Life as We Know It Today?
Taken from Berkeley Engineer Fall 2013 Volume 4 (Pictured Above: Richard Swart, Director, Program for Innovation in Entrepreneurial and Social Finance) One of the biggest roadblocks to innovation is access to capital. Until last year, laws written decades ago, which were designed to protect everyday investors in an information-poor environment, dictated how the financial world… Read More »
CET Lecturers, Danner and Coopersmith, Featured on KTVU Commenting on the Twitter IPO
Taken from KTVU News Experts say users will likely see changes because the company must find a way to make money to satisfy its shareholders. “It has got to show the market how it can convert millions and millions of users all over the world into customers,” said John Danner, a senior fellow at UC… Read More »
