Citris Foundry
at UC Berkeley
West Coast - San Francisco Bay Area
Clean Tech/Tech4Good/MedTech/Cyber Security/AI/Robotics/Energy/WomeninTech
The University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant university and the first campus of the University of California system. Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 31,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students. Berkeley is ranked among the world's top universities by major educational publications.
Citris Foundry
Uniquely situated across multiple UC campuses, the CITRIS Foundry is ideally positioned to help new generations of innovators and entrepreneurs bridge the gap from lab to market and actualize rigorous, validated solutions to society’s biggest challenges. The Foundry’s Incubator offers guidance, education, and a home-base to de-risk entrepreneurship for early-stage founders, especially supporting those who have been historically marginalized, allowing innovators to confidently identify pathways to success and reach the next stage of development and investment for their emerging technology venture.
UC Berkeley is also the lead institution for the NSF I-Corps Hub in the Northwest region, part of the broader national NSF I-Corps network. NSF announced Berkeley’s hub leadership in October 2024, and the hub includes partners such as UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCSF, UC Santa Cruz, Oregon State, University of Washington, and University of Alaska Fairbanks.
The NSF I-Corps program at UC Berkeley is a free, remote 10-day customer discovery course for people with a STEM startup idea or technology they want to commercialize. Berkeley says the program teaches teams to conduct 20 customer interviews to identify customer segments, sharpen value propositions, validate the market, and move toward product-market fit.
Companies have also access to (and support from) Norcal SBDC's consulting resources. NorCal Small Business Development Centers at UC Berkeley is part of a nationally accredited program that provides educational training, business resources, funding and capital access support, and experienced no-cost, confidential consulting to business owner, tech entrepreneurs included.
Who can apply and how long does the program last?
Application Criteria
The focus of this ENRICHers - Citris Foundry soft-landing program is on foreign (special focus on European as well as on associated and third countries) and out of state entrepreneurs who want to develop a US venture; as long as there is a project of trying to launch a business in California - no requirement of legal entity is needed.
Price: $3,000 per month.
Visa options
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Non-applicable