Built By Berkeley

Welcome to Built By Berkeley, where we announce all the funding rounds by Berkeley-founded companies. This is a community effort, so please let us know if we missed a company here. 🐻

Since we started 6 weeks ago, 48 Berkeley companies have raised $2.7B. Pretty good stuff! 🐻 

It was a slower week, with 4 companies raising $105M. We cannot be sure…but it seems founders were maybe spending time looking at what to spend their future exits on, as a house owned by Gordon Getty in the Berkeley Hills came on the market for $5M. Article. Location. 

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Summary by the #️⃣ & 💰:

• 4 Berkeley-founded companies funded

• $105M of capital raised from the 12th August to 18th August

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Closed Rounds

🌳 Terviva. $36M Round. 🇺🇲 Regenerative agricultural company focused on pongamia.  💰 Undisclosed.

🐻 Naveen Sikka, Co-Founder. Haas MBA,

👘 Bolt Threads. $35.5M SPAC Merger. 🇺🇲 Textile developer using biology and fermentation. 💰 Golden Arrow Merger Corp (Nasdaq: GAMC).

🐻 David Breslauer, Co-Founder & CTO. PhD Bioengineering. Article

🛜 Thintronics. $23M Series A.  🇺🇲 Optimizing interconnect insulation for high data rates and low power consumption. 💰 Maverick Capital, M Ventures, Translink Capital.

🐻 Stefan Pastine. CEO. Post Doc Organic Materials Science.  Article

🚌 BasiGo. $10M Loan 🇰🇪 Pay-as-you-drive electric bus financing across Africa 💰 DFC.

🐻 Jit Bhattacharya, Co-founder & CEO. Haas MBA. Article

Ones We Missed

💉 QUiCKR Bio. $2.5M Pre-seed. 🇺🇲 Faster genomics for cell and gene terapies 💰 Civilization Ventures, HCVC.

🐻 Jiawei Lee, Co-founder & Chief Business Officer. Masters of Translational Medicine. Article

💳 SynchPay (in Stealth). $1.3M Pre-seed.  Saves businesses 80% vs. credit cards using account-to-account payments. 💰 High Net Worths & Angels. 

🐻 Charles Lehman. Founder. Haas MBA.

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