2006 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition
Presentations by the eight finalist teams of the competition,
ending in the announcement of the winners.
You may watch the complete
program or pick specific presentations. Some of
these teams have gone on to become actual companies,
in which case we have a reference to their web site.
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Allied
Polymer (7:39): From cell phones to computers,
99% of all electronic devices have their backbone
made up of semiconductor chip packaging and flexible
printed circuit boards. Allied Polymer designs and
develops novel low cost and high performance photomiageable
copolyester materials used in advanced microelectronic
packaging and flexible printed circuit board markets. |
TEAM: A.J. Howes, PhD candidate, Department
of Chemical Engineering UCB; Frank Shi, PhD, Materials
Science and Engineering Universisty of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
and MBM Stanford University.
| Aurora
BioFuels (7:30): An innovative alternative energy
company with a revolutionary method of producing bio-diesel.
Aurora’s proprietary technology, developed at
UC Berkeley, allows Aurora BioFuels to create bio-diesel
with 125X higher yeilds and 50% lower costs than current
production methods. |
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TEAM: Matt Caspari, MBA 07 Haas School; Dr.
Tasios Melis, Prof. of Enzymology, Departmment of Plant
and Microbial Biology UCB; Guido Radaelli, MBA 07 Haas
School; Bert Vick, PhD candidate, Molecular and Cell
Biology UCB. [Current website: Aurora
BioFuels]
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CellASIC
(9:33): Developer of a microfluidic platform for
cell-based life science applications. The innovative
CellASIC platform prepares a Biometric Tissue Array
for precise cell culture control. The ability to reliably
maintain primary cell cultures is a cost effective array
addresses a potential $55 billion market in phramaceutical
development, personalized cancer therapy, and stem cell
medicine. |
TEAM: Paul J. Hung, PhD, Electrical Engineering
UCB; Philip J. Lee, PhD, Bioengineering UCB; Mike Kingston,
MBA 07 Haas School.
[Current website: CellASIC]
| Kirsen
Radio Vision (9:20): Producer of instant 3-D “see-
through” vision of environment by visualizing
different materials (e.g. guns or plastic weapons),
even if hidden behind walls, garments and inside luggage.
It minimizes delays and the inconvenience of physical
searches that are often necessary to resolve ambiguous
alarms. |
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Love Ensure (8:58): An easy to use, interactive,
individually tailored web-based tool that helps couples
improve their marriages and reduce the chance of divorce.
LoveEnsure's interactive website helps each partner
quickly identify and convey very graphically to one
another: 1) their most important needs satisfied from
the relationship; 2) their level of satisfaction with
respect to each of these needs; and 3) the specific
behaviors each prefers for satisfying his/her needs. |
TEAM: Gary Krane, PhD in educational psychology
from Harvard and UCB; Thomas G. Noyes, VP at Sam Waltz
and Associates; James Tran, VP of Market Strategy; Amy
Lehman, VP of Marketing.
| SiliconServo
(9:28): A company that delivers a microarray scanning
platform with 10 times the precision of existing instruments.
Based on proprietary active feedback architecture, the
disruptive technology also yields a 10x lower cost.
The reliable performance, flexible price, and format
versatility address critical needs of the $2 Billion
personalized medicine market. |
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TEAM: Pushkar Hingwe, PhD, Mechanical Engineering
UCB; Aditi Patwardhan, Btech in Chemical Engineering
IIT, MBA 07 Haas School; Satyajit Patwardhan, MS degree
IIT, PhD Mechanical Engineering UCB; Aditya Phadke,
MBA candidate Haas School; Abhishek Shrivastava, MBA
07 Haas School.
[Current website: SiliconServo]
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TreeFrog
(8:42): Supplier of tools for marketers that allow
them to inject science into marketing. TreeFrog offers
a marketing ROI dashboard for VPs, as well as functional
modules for executing intelligent plans in marketing
communications, product marketing, pricing, and promotions
building on the industry's best practices. |
TEAM: John Banks, service delivery & operations
expert; Courtney Burry, marketing manager at National
Semiconductor; Matt Bloom, product management professional;
Jason DeSeve, business manager for Applied Materials;
Qing Lee, 16 years experience in sales, business development,
project management, consulting and software development;
Timothy Morey, product manager for Sun Microsystems.
| Xylim
(8:32): Developer of a complete solution for applying
small-footprint highscale parallel array co-processors
to produce a performance breakthrough in processing
speed. Xylim's solution contains many essential elements
such as: A proprietary, state-of-the-art, highly-scalable
array processor architecture; a programmable array co-processor
chipset; inudstry-leading expertise in parallel algorithms
for porting customer applications. |
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TEAM: John Redfern, MBA from INSEAD [Fontainebleau,
France]; Carl Fravel, Executive leader with senior technical
and product management experience; Andrea Di Blas, PhD,
Deparment of Electrical Engineering Politecnico di Torino;
Gregory Jackson, architecture manager; Marcello Vena,
MBA from INSEAD [Singapore/France]; Niraj Shah, PhD,
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences UCB.
[Current website: Xylim]
Award
Ceremony (3:56): An awards ceremony for the winners
of the 8th Annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Compeition.
Find out who won the People's Choice award, Third prize,
Second prize, and First prize!
(April 27, 2006)
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