Episodes

Nov. 9, 2021

Designing hardware: "Idea to prototype"

Mark Brinkerhoff is the President of Fusion Design, a consultancy that has helped design over 1500 hardware products from concept to creation stages. We cover the concept of design, building the requirement documents (MRD, PRD), prototyping,...

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Nov. 2, 2021

Mission Bio- Startup providing cancer researchers with the only multi…

Mission Bio is a startup that pioneered high throughput single cell sequencing. We talk about how they are helping researchers and clinicians unlock single-cell biology to enable the discovery, development, and delivery of precision medicine; the...

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Oct. 26, 2021

Lessons learnt from designing electronics, firmware, and software wit…

- Most challenging projects are the ones where the customer/client doesn't listen. - Current and future states of wearable industry and future - Remote monitoring of patients is here to stay (thanks to COVID) and wearables are going to play …

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Oct. 19, 2021

4DMT- Gene therapy company that customizes AAV vectors to target spec…

Prof. David Schaffer and Dr. David Kirn are the co-founders of 4D Molecular Therapeutics (4DMT). We cover the founding story, underlying technology development, funding from research grants to IPO, partnerships with pharma and biotech companies, lessons f

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Oct. 12, 2021

Unshackled Ventures- VC firm investing in immigrant entrepreneurs

Manan Mehta is the founding partner of Unshackled ventures. We cover the thesis behind funding immigrant entrepreneurs- more specifically about their process for funding startups and how they help them with their visa issues. - A high conviction...

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Oct. 5, 2021

Building the startup muscle for academic founders.

Martin Casado is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a pioneer of software-defined networking, and a co-founder of Nicira Networks. We cover the lessons learnt from Martin's journey as an academic entrepreneur founding Nicira and factors...

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Sept. 28, 2021

Illumina accelerator for genomics startups

My guest today is Amanda Cashin, the Co-Founder and Global Head of Illumina Accelerator, which focuses on building genomics-driven startups. We talk about: Accelerator program, sequencing support, seed funding, training and the selection process....

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Sept. 14, 2021

Molecular Foundry: Nanoscience research facility

In this episode of Lab to Startup, I speak with Shannon Ciston and Branden Brough. Branden is the Deputy director of Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Shannon is the Director of the User Program. We explore …

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Sept. 14, 2021

Xcell Biosciences - Cell culturing technology to enhance drug screeni…

In this episode of Lab to Startup, I speak with Brian Feth and James Lim, co-founders of Xcell Biosciences. We explore the startup story and learn about: The founding story- the initial hypothesis behind the product they wanted to build …

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Sept. 7, 2021

Welcome to the Lab to Startup Podcast

This podcast is focused on stories from founders in deep tech space building startups from their research at universities and national labs. Also want to cover resources (investors, tech transfer offices, advisors, industry alliance offices, etc.)...

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