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. 🐻

$202M raised…we are back and having big weeks, it also seems like we will soon have our biggest week ever with OpenAI about to announce a $40B raise! 8 companies raised from Gene therapy to AI teaching assistants.

This week I put my thoughts into a podcast, if anyone has 60 minutes or 30 at 2x speed here.

Looking for a fun breakfast friends at Collide Capital and Race Capital are hosting this friday in San Fransisco.

Summary by the #️⃣ & 💰:

• 8 Berkeley-founded companies funded

• $202M of capital raised from the 24th March to 28th March

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Closed Rounds

🧬 Epicrispr Biotechnologies. $68M Series B 🇺🇸 Gene therapy developer. 💰Ally Bridge Group, Horizons Ventures, LDV Partners  

🐻 Lei (Stanley) Qi, Founder & Scientific Advisor. MA Physics Article

🧠 Cala Health. $50M Series C 🇺🇸 Wearable tremor therapy. 💰 GV, Lux Capital, Magnetar Capital

 🐻 Kate Rosenbluth, Founder & President. Masters Translational Medicine Article

🫁 Owlstone Medical. $29M Series E 🇬🇧 Healthcare breath diagnostics. 💰 Aviva Ventures, Gates Foundation, V Ventures  

 🐻 David Ruiz Alonso, Co-Founder & COO. Article

🧾 Silna Health. $27M Series A 🇺🇸 Care readiness platform. 💰 Accel, Bain Capital,
 

🐻 Pavel Asparouhov, Co-Founder & CTO. BA EECS Article

📚 Brisk Teaching. $15M Series A 🇺🇸 AI teaching assistant. 💰 Bessemer Venture Partners, Owl Ventures, South Park Commons

 🐻 Arman Jaffer, Founder. BA EECS Article

🌰 Mountain Hazelnut Venture. $7.9M 🇧🇹 Hazelnut producer, Bhutan. 💰 Blue Moon, Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation, Mirova

 🐻 Daniel Spitzer, Founder & Chairman. BA Economic Development

🪙 LTV.ai. $5M Series A 🇺🇸 Blockchain loyalty platform. 💰 Bling Capital, OVO Fund

 🐻 Kevin Chou, Founder & President. Haas Business Administration Article

🧱 WorkSpan. Series D 🇺🇸 Co-sell management network. 💰 Insight Partners, M12, Mayfield Fund

🐻 Amit Sinha, President & Founder. Haas MBA Article

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