Best start-up companies in Berkeley, CA

Grabango is a provider of checkout-free shopper technology for existing stores. Grabango's system is designed to accommodate thousands of store locations and tens of thousands of SKUs. Grabango's founder and CEO, Will Glaser (Founder, CTO Pandora Radio) has built a company that is at the forefront of today's retail technology revolution. Its unique design uses computer vision and machine learning to change the way we shop. The company is composed of a team of accomplished technology and commerce professionals. Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.

Perfect Day produces dairy proteins that are nutritionally identical to proteins from cow's milk. Perfect Day is pioneering a whole new era in animal-free dairy products. They believe that factory farms, artificial insemination, and automated milking machines are not the way to go. They're bad for cows, and they're bad for the planet. The company's animal-free approach, based on the safe and proven techniques that give the consumers beer or vegetarian rennet also provides consumers and food manufacturers with the same product they all know and love - through a more sustainable, healthy, and humane process. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Memphis Meats is a food products company looking to develop cutting-edge technology to produce real meat without the animals, by farming animal cells instead of animals.

3DR makes advanced drone technology easily accessible to the construction, mining, and surveying industries for use in data analysis. It helps users in land mapping and site scanning services in collecting accurate aerial data of the jobsite, turning urns the drone photos into maps, models, point clouds and providing comprehensive onboarding and ongoing support, enabling clients to take batter and informed decisions related to construction sites.

To remove distributed systems expertise from the critical path of realizing the business potential of AI.

Their phone conversations with job candidates are the most important step of the hiring process. But even in 2016, these rich interactions with candidates are still "off-line" phone conversations...until now. They make it easy for recruiters to go beyond basic interview questions and scribbled interview notes. Their platform helps recruiters capture real-time candidate data and audio insights, to accelerate the interview process, make collaborative decisions and enable higher quality hires. By sharing a few audio highlights from a single phone screen, hiring teams can cooperatively review and assess candidates, to identify and hire the best candidates, before their competition.

KoBold Metals is a developer of AI technologies to help guide mineral exploration companies in discovering deposits of cobalt, nickel, copper and lithium.

Bio architecture lab is engaged in the development of low cost, scalable, and sustainable biomass.

Demetrix manufactures natural medicines using synthesis biology. The company uses genetics and computing enabled deciphering technology to produce drugs. It enables refactoring biotechnology microbial hosts for gene synthesis. The company engineers strain to produce co-evolved and bio-inspired medicines and nutraceuticals. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Emeryville, California.

Voltaiq offers a battery intelligence analytics platform that provides insights about batteries. It offers its services for battery OEMs, consumer electronics, automotive, and grid-scale energy storage industries.

Mission Barns is making the juicy, savory meats they all love in a sustainable, more efficient way. At Mission Barns, they are cultivating animal cells to sustainably grow meat without the negative impacts of intensive animal agriculture. They start with a handful of cells from select animals, grow them in a nutrient-rich environment, and harvest delicious, savory meat. Working at the convergence of biotech and food science, they're on the path to creating a more sensible food system for the world.

Better Energy Systems develops portable, clean energy products, under the Solio brand, for work, play and economic development.

Therapy isn't for everyone. Connecting with peers going through the same life struggle has been proven as useful, and often more effective, in dozens of clinically-validated research studies. Supportiv is delivering instantaneous peer support as mass-market accessible mental health care for the 80% of adults with typical work stress, family pressures, sadness, anxiety or loneliness, who don't want or need a therapist. Supportiv is *better* than real-life peer support -- easier to access, more precise, and quicker to help. Suportiv uses AI-driven natural language processing (NLP) to route each user, based on any single thought they express, in real time, to a topic-specific peer support group that dynamically convenes for users with similar issues. Each group has a *super-powered* human moderator who keeps the chat safe and troll-free and is able, again through NLP, to surface precisely relevant resources, recommendations, and referrals right into the group conversation in real-time.

Powerhive develops scalable, bankable off-grid utility solutions to create a future where everyone has access to clean energy and the opportunities that come with it. Powerhive is a technology venture founded in 2011 that partners with utilities and independent power producers to provide access to productive, affordable and reliable mini-grid electricity for millions of rural homes and businesses around the globe. Its proprietary technology platform and business model enables the financing, monetization, and management of off-grid utility solutions. Powerhive is headquartered in Berkeley, California.

Checkerspot is a materials company. Advances in our understanding of biology, chemistry and materials science are converging with breakthroughs in data science and unleashing capabilities they once only imagined. Checkerspot's technology unlocks this potential, expands the palette of materials available to product designers and enables a more intentional way to design performance materials for specific applications. As a graduate of the Illumina Accelerator program, we are building a technology platform that enables the design - at a molecular level - of new materials. Through applications development, they prototype and iterate on specific product embodiments. By engaging directly with product users and partnering with socially responsible corporations, they design and bring to market superior products with better materials.

LeadGenius is an end-to-end sales solution that provides companies with a way to generate, qualify, deliver, and convert leads. It helps sales teams grow and scale across all levels of the sales process. LeadGenius was launched by Anand Kulkarni, Prayag Narula, and Dave Rolnitzky in 2011.

Steep Hill is the world's leading cannabis science and technology company with significant footprints in lab testing, research and development, licensing, genetics, and remote testing. No other company brings all of these sectors into one highly synergistic whole. Steep Hill's foundation was built on testing and analyzing medical and recreational cannabis to ensure compliance with public safety standards. In 2008, Steep Hill opened the first commercial cannabis lab in the United States and has been on the cutting edge since its inception. Steep Hill is currently expanding throughout the United States and worldwide. With the goal of helping the rest of the world adopt “best practices” in cannabis testing, we also provide expert consulting services to legislators and regulators in many countries, states and municipalities around the world. Steep Hill: “Leading the Science of Cannabis. Globally℠.” Steep Hill is in Alaska, Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Washington DC, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and more to come.

Dang Foods specializes in wholesale to food distributors and retailers. We can also sell in bulk and can customize products under your brand's name. Here at Dang, we value the 4 Fs and 3 Cs: Family - We are a family company, and as such we support each other to the fullest. Friends - We treat our partners and customers as we would treat our friends…with respect. Fun - We're happy and we know it! Food - We live to eat and we love to share what we eat. Culture - We're aware of those things that are ingrained in one's upbringing and value the richness of diversity that exists in this wonderful world. Community - We think the community is the best way to live a fulfilling life on this earth so we strive to create beautiful communities and give back to our community. Creativity - We're into trying new things. We take risks, we experiment, we prototype and iterate…and we'll continue to do so always and forever.

EnChroma makes eyewear designed to improve human color vision for the color blind (CVD) population and everyone else.