University of California ventures were center stage at the 2025 Born in California event, held May 5 at the Cove at UC Irvine’s Beall Applied Innovation. The event brought together 20 startups from all 10 University of California campuses and drew more than 200 attendees, including investors, researchers, and campus leaders. Now in its fourth year, Born in California has become a regular feature of OC Innovation Week and a central venue for university research on the path to commercialization.
Innovation Ventures was proud to see Kopra Bio and Sphinxion Therapeutics, companies whose core technologies were funded by our Catalyst Program and launched out of UCSF.