Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum

Thursday, April 26, 2007

6:00 - 8:30 PM

Arthur Andersen Auditorium
Haas School of Business

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The UC Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum will present a very special program on April 26 when it joins with the student organizers of the 2007 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition to showcase the finalists of this year's competition and award prizes. The San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurial communtiy is invited to join US for a great evening learning about the best and the brightest from UC Berkeley. All those present will be invited to participate in the selection of the winner of the People's Choice Award, which carries a $5000 prize.

The Finalists:

 

Team	Business Description
AidNetworks	Aid Networks, LLC (AIDN) is a seed stage medical device R&D company. Its mission is to produce the lowest-cost vital sign sensors for hospital-wide patient monitoring. AIDN has developed wireless sensors that are 15 times less expensive than existing products. These sensors were built using proprietary technology developed at the Johns Hopkins University through a multi-million dollar research grant.
Clicker	ClickerTV's software platform uses the installed-base of DVRs to bring Internet-like targeting and real-time measurement to the traditional 30 second advertisement. As compared to other television ad-insertion platforms, ClickerTV advances targeting capabilities, leaping from zip+4 to household-level addressability. ClickerTV has developed interest from operator and programmer customers, including: Cablevision, A&E, Lifetime and NBC Universal.
InVino Sense	The first product of InVino Sense, Inc. is intended for high-end winemakers who wish to monitor more accurately the growth and maturation of grapes as they ripen on the vine, throughout the growing season and throughout the vineyard. It is an inexpensive, powerless and wireless biosensor platform to initially detect changes in sugar concentration inside the grape berry. By embedding the sensor directly into grapes, the technology enables winemakers to continuously monitor grape characteristics. Unlike current refractory methods which necessitate destroying the grape to measure the sugar level, this device would allow continuous measurement without affecting the grape growth as the device resides within the berry itself through the ripening period. This device will be integrated with other sensor data networks that will be developed to provide better information to the winemaker.
ODS Oral Delivery Systems	(ODS) is an early-stage company developing ODS Courier, an oral drug delivery system. ODS Courier enables oral delivery of drugs that are typically administered by injection or infusion, e.g. protein therapeutics whose efficacy is compromised by conventional oral delivery. The company's mission is to make the administration of any drug as easy as taking a pill. The ODS Courier is a revolutionary drug delivery device which will redefine the standard of care for protein therapeutics!
Parada Imaging	Parada Imaging’s mission is to bring high-quality MRI to every doctor’s office. Parada Imaging has developed a breakthrough MRI technology, called Pre-polarized MRI (PMRI), which offers the same image quality as the current systems for a fraction of the cost. In addition, Parada Imaging's PMRI system is the only imaging system capable of cross-sectional imaging near a metallic implant. PMRI is an ideal candidate for small, dedicated MRI machines that will make MRI as ubiquitous as x-ray.
SeroNostics	SeroNostics seeks to revolutionize disease detection and monitoring by developing the SeroScreen: a novel point-of-care diagnostic device based on technology developed at UC Berkeley. The SeroScreen is a hand-held, battery-powered analyzer capable of diagnosing disease in minutes by injecting bodily fluid into disposable cartridges that are inserted into the analyzer.
Shape Memory Therapeutics	Shape Memory Therapeutics (SMT) is a medical device company founded to commercialize innovative medical devices based on Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) materials developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). SMP’s unique properties – high expansion capability combined with a low expansion force – hold strong potential as an effective minimally invasive treatment for cerebral aneurysms.
TubeMogul	TubeMogul is a provider of online video analytics software to content creators and marketing agencies. Our software tracks the viewership of videos across multiple distribution sites and analyzes and presents this data to end users.

For more information on the competition please visit the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition website.

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