The University of California Riverside (UCR) and the Organization of American States (OAS) have joined efforts to accelerate commercialization of technologies in Latin America and the Caribbean through the development of the COMUNITT portal. COMUNITT, as the name implies, aims to build a strong community of technology transfer and entrepreneurship training professionals in the Americas...

The Office of Technology Partnerships (OTP) at UC Riverside (UCR) has awarded $230,000 in grants and expert business mentorship to five (5) Proof of Concept (POC) faculty recipients to further the development and commercialization of their technologies. This funding is available, now for the second year, through a gift provided to UCR by Eurosemillas, S.A...

MSN Money ranked Riverside as the 19th best city for small business owners in 2018, beating well-established cities like Atlanta, Nashville, and even San Jose. Fast forward to 2021 and Riverside continues to grow and develop as a city that fosters innovation, entrepreneurship and business growth. Riverside’s success can be credited to multiple factors including...

UC Riverside’s EPIC Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is excited to announce that it has partnered with the Murrieta Innovation Center (MIC) to bring additional resources and services to the Southwest Riverside County tech community by providing mentorship and entrepreneurial programming. Under the agreement, the newly formed EPIC SBDC Resource Center will build on MIC’s...

The UC Riverside Microbiome Initiative and California-based General Automation Lab Technologies, or GALT, have partnered to advance plant pathology, environmental microbiology, and insect and human gut microbiome studies. As part of this collaboration, GALT will support five UC Riverside research projects that will use the company’s Prospector® high-throughput microbial isolation and cultivation system to generate...

From 125 nominations across the Launchpad network, UCR undergraduate William Wang founder of Dashbill was one of 50 participants chosen for the Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars Spring Fellowship. His startup is aimed towards collecting dues and budgeting from student organizations. William came up with the idea from personal experience as a Vice President of Kappa...

Sensorygen, a life science start-up founded by UC Riverside’s professor Dr. Anandasankar Ray recently closed a $1.5 million equity funding raise. With this funding, Sensorygen will be able to continue advancing to reach the market, moving into the final phase of testing to obtain approval from the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Sensorygen also recently...

UCR student-led startups Edge Sound Research and SARU Recycling are among 30 semi-finalists selected across the Launchpad network competing for one of seven finalist spots and $50,000 in prizes. Edge Sound Research a startup founded in 2019 and led by UCR graduates, Ethan Castro and Valtteri Salomaki, develops audio systems for gamers allowing them to...

The UC Riverside Life Sciences Incubator recently welcomed its first two tenants in line with the university’s guidelines for ramping up research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Karamedica Inc., a spinoff company from Loma Linda University Health; and Murrieta Genomics Inc. are the initial businesses to take advantage of the first wet lab incubator in the...

In October 2020 The Office of Technology Partnerships’ (OTP) at UC Riverside (UCR) concluded the second edition of the entrepreneurial program Know Hub Ignition, a 10-week intensive training program delivered to Chilean entrepreneurs in partnership with Know Hub Chile, a technology transfer hub funded by the Chilean government agency CORFO. In the 2020 Know Hub...

2020' LaunchPad Startup Weekend California took place October 23-25th this year. This event is for students early in their journey with no prior training or existing venture. Over the weekend, students attend workshops, receive mentor feedback, and get to participate in a pitch competition against other teams honing in on their teamwork and company-building skills...

In the recent news of those selected for the Fall 2020 LaunchPad Fellowship by the Blackstone Launchpad and Techstars, we decided to get an insiders look at one of the startups selected; SARU is a startup that was created by a team of UCR graduates and students, Mahmood Shaheen, Kyle Stark, Nathaniel Ortiz, Sebastian Mukuria...

Antibodies developed at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), and licensed to Releviate Therapeutics may contribute to a significant advancement in the treatment of chronic pain as an alternative to opioids. Every year, more than 50 million adults in the United States suffer from chronic pain, a serious condition that negatively affects quality of life...

A Chilean’s entrepreneur journey to bring a drug delivery technology to the US market Javier Morales, an entrepreneur and professor at Universidad de Chile is on the way to have his company PRIME Technologies, incubated in Riverside in partnership with the University of California Riverside (UCR). Javier and his team developed a film, similar to...

Latin America has outstanding universities and institutes conducting research in ground breaking technologies. Many times this research is aimed at understanding and solving major local and regional problems. Local institutions have a good chance of finding viable solutions given their understanding of the problematic, but governments, universities and organizations involved in technology transfer and innovation...

Securing capital for a startup to develop its technology for commercialization is not easy. Federal grants such as the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) have become critical in helping small businesses mature their technologies and bring them to market. The SBIR/STTR program, America’s Seed Fund, provides access to the...

The Office of Technology Partnerships (OTP) facilitates the development and commercialization of ideas emanating from The University of California Riverside (UCR) and the community for the benefit of society. The licensing of proteasome and immunoproteasome inhibitors to Lodo Therapeutics is an example of UCR OTP’s success as a bridge between academia and industry. On September...

In July of 2020, UC Riverside announced a major discovery in the fight against Huanglongbing (HLB, also known as citrus greening disease). HLB is one of the most serious citrus plant diseases in the world which has already devastated 90% of Florida’s citrus groves and is threatening Southern California’s $7 billion citrus industry that contributes...

The 2020 Know Hub Ignition Entrepreneurship Training program, delivered in partnership between Know Hub Chile and UC Riverside's Office of Technology Partnerships, launches this week. 2020 is the second year of the government-funded Chilean program which aims to strengthen and promote technology-based entrepreneurship in the country. This year’s program received 66 applications for 16 openings...

On June 10th, 2020 - Valtteri Salomaki, the co-founder of EDGE Sound Research a startup developing new audio systems for immersive entertainment companies allowing users to both feel and hear sound in High Definition has been selected to participate in the LaunchPad Summer Startup Fellowship, during which college students from the U.S. and Ireland will...