Built By Berkeley - 15th-21st July 2024

Welcome to the second Built By Berkeley, a weekly round-up of all funding rounds with a Berkeley founding team member.

We believe Berkeley has the most entrepreneurial ecosystem in the world. However, we recognize that this ecosystem can sometimes feel fragmented. To help bring it closer together, we will announce all Berkeley-founded companies that receive funding each week. This is a community effort, so please let us know if we missed a company here. 🐻

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Summary by the #️⃣ & 💰:

• 9 Berkeley-founded companies funded

• $374M of capital raised from the 15th to 21st July

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Closed Rounds

🧑‍💻 VSee. $110M SPAC Merger. 🇺🇲  Low code / no code telehealth platform 

🐻 Milton Chen, CEO. EECS. Article 

🔌 Dream Big Semiconductor. $75M Series B. 🇺🇲 Semi-conductor Chiplet platform for AI inference. 💰 Samsung Catalyst, Sutardja Family 

🐻 Weili Dai, Co-Founder & Vice Chairwomen. EECS Article

🏢 Urban Company. $50M Secondary.  🇮🇳 Quality home services, on demand. 💰 Dharana

🐻 Raghav Chandra, Cofounder. EECS.  Article  

🤑 Slope. $65M Series A. 🇺🇲 Flexible payments for businesses via APIs and AI-driven underwriting. 💰 Y Combinator, Jack Altman, JP Morgan.

🐻 Alice Deng, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer. BA Business. Article

👶 Novocuff. $26M Series A. 🇺🇲 Medical devices to improve pregnancy outcomes. 💰 AXA IM Alts, Laerdak Millon Lives Fund.

🐻 Amelia Degenkolb, CEO. BA. Article

🏗️ Adaptive. $19M Series A. 🇺🇲 AI-powered financial platform for the construction industry. 💰 Emergence, Pear, Box.

🐻 Henry Bradlow, CTO. ECCS.  Article

🥘 Antheia. $17M Growth Equity. 🇺🇲 Pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer. 💰In-Q-Tel, Echo Investment Capital  

🐻 Christina Smolke, CEO. PhD Chemical Engineering. Article 

🚲 Vammo. $5.4M in Debt & Equity. 🇧🇷  Battery swapping for motorcycles. 💰EXT Capital 

🐻 Billy Blaustein, COO. Haas MBA. Article

💞 Acculine Medical. $4.2M Seed Round. 🇮🇱 Deep learning to detect heart attacks early. 💰 Mayo Clinic Ventures, Google for Startups.

 🐻 Shai Revzen, CSO. PhD Biomechanics.  Article

🔫 Aurelius Systems. $2.1M Pre Seed. 🇺🇲 Edge-deployed laser systems to counter drones. 💰Outlander, Decisive Point

 🐻 Michael LaFramboise, CEO. Haas MBA. Article

Rounds We Missed

👼 Amparo. $900K Seed.  🇧🇷  End of life platform to ease the burden of losing a loved one. 💰 QED, Canary 

🐻 Matheus Drummond, CEO. LLM Law. Article 

Image of the Week:

Ever wondered where all your DoorDash orders came from? DoorDash was founded by Berkeley alumnus Tony Xu.

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