The annual UC pitch session returned to the GCVI Summit, with chosen startups including BioTrillion, Cayuga Biotech, EVT, FarmSense and TomoCredit.
Now in its third year, the University of California Entrepreneur (UC) Startup Showcase has become an integral part of the Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation (GCVI) Summit, held in Monterey, California by GUV owner Mawsonia.
After Christine Gulbranson decided to step down from her position as chief innovation officer at UC last year, this year the competition was introduced by her successor, Victoria Slivkoff, global head, UC Systemwide Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Gulbranson, true to her continued enthusiasm for the ecosystem, was still in attendance however to cheer on the startups from the audience, which included more than 800 delegates from the corporate venture capital world.
There was another change this year, as UC partnered Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), a non-profit startup competition dedicated to promoting education and science and inspired by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. That meant…
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is the editor of Global University Venturing, host of the Beyond the Breakthrough interview podcast and responsible for the monthly GUV Gazette (sign up here for free).
