Lab to Startup

Lab to Startup

Hundreds of thousands of researchers around the world are working to improve life and address imminent threats to humanity. Often, the research ends up in the “Scientific valley of death” in the form of publications and patents that never see the light of the day.

Welcome to “Lab to Startup” a podcast aimed at showcasing the effort needed to translate lab research to startups. The show has two main goals: 1. Sharing the stories of those scientists and engineers who have successfully founded startups based on the research at university and national labs. 2. Highlighting the resources and tools needed to help those aspiring to launch startups in the deeptech space.

We also want this show to be a way to communicate those technology development stories to the general public (taxpayers funding the research) in the hope that they will continue to support such research and startups.

Recent Episodes

April 9, 2024

Civilization Ventures: Lessons learned from operating, founding, exiting, investing in startups and applying them to support founders

Shahram Seyedin-Noor is the founder and managing partner at Civilization Ventures. Shahram received a JD from Harvard and worked at Wilson Solsinis and Cooley before going into investment banking at firms like Goldman Sachs …
Feb. 27, 2024

Humba Ventures: Investing in Deep Tech Startups with Engineering Focus

Leo Polovets is the Co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures. Leo focuses on enterprise software and technical products at Susa. About two years ago, He also started Humba Ventures, a fund that invests in deep tech an…
Feb. 13, 2024

Berkeley SkyDeck- Catalyzing the growth of deep tech startups at the world’s number one ranked public university.

Caroline Winnett is the Executive Director of Berkeley SkyDeck, a startup accelerator at the University of California, Berkeley. SkyDeck started as a mentoring space in 2012 and soon translated into one of the leading startu…
Jan. 16, 2024

MedTech Innovator and BioTools Innovator: accelerator for medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies

Paul Grand is the founder and CEO; Ayelet Marom is the Program Director for BioTools Innovator, which focuses specifically on biotools; and Jim West is the Associate Director, BioTools Innovator, who was previously the Co-Fo…
Jan. 2, 2024

Metcela - Treating chronic organ diseases using a novel fibroblast-based technology

Kenichi Nogami is the co-founder and CEO of Metcela, a clinical-stage biotechnology startup pioneering the research and development of fibroblast and stem cell-based therapy for chronic heart diseases that currently have lim…
Nov. 28, 2023

Lessons learned from a scientist entrepreneur turned investor

Caleb Bell III, Ph.D., is a venture partner at Corundum Systems Biology and also the President of Corundum convergence institute. We talk about the founding story of Bell biosystems; how they were able to work at various la…