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Berkeley Catalyst Fund
Venture capital
The Berkeley Catalyst Fund is a venture capital fund that sources deals from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC San Francisco, associated incubators and accelerators, and alumni throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. It is managed by three founding partners and shares some of its returns back through the UC Berkeley Foundation to benefit the College of Chemistry.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordslife sciencesbiotechnologyagriculturecleantechsensorsbay area
Your fit with Berkeley Catalyst Fund
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Or find every investor that fitsBerkeley Catalyst Fund lists 21 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 2 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Healthcare & Biotech (70%), Industrial & Manufacturing (9%) and AI & Machine Learning (9%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Mission BioCapital, Photon Fund and Hemisphere Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Berkeley Catalyst Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Berkeley Catalyst Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 2 companies; its own site lists 21. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 0% |
| Series A | 100% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 53th | 21 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 91th | 70% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Mission BioCapital | 4 |
| Photon Fund | 4 |
| Hemisphere Ventures | 2 |
| Pappas Capital | 2 |
| RA Capital | 2 |
| StartX | 2 |
| AIX Ventures | 1 |
| Alumni Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2095%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company15%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 70% | 15% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 9% | 7% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 9% | 18% |
| Consumer | 4% | 3% |
| Food & Agriculture | 4% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 4% | 1% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Mission BioCapital
Compare Berkeley Catalyst Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Berkeley Catalyst Fund| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Dec 2025 | Series A | |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Series A |
Round details for Berkeley Catalyst Fund
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Berkeley Catalyst Fund's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
21 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The company invents and develops genetic medicines with proprietary customized vectors for retinal and pulmonary diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Akadeum Life Sciences develops and provides cell separation technology for therapeutic applications | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Amplicore develops injectable therapeutics for degenerative musculoskeletal disorders | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| Circle Pharma harnesses the power of macrocycles to transform the treatment of cancer. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Particella, Inc. has developed an oral lipid nanoparticle technology to deliver nucleic acids to the intestinal epithelium. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Frontier Medicines is unlocking the proteome to develop a differentiated pipeline of small-molecule drugs against previously undruggable targets | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| SimpleLab provides laboratory testing services for various samples, including water, air, and soil, and offers a cloud-based platform for data management. | Healthcare & BiotechIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Inhalon Biopharma is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing inhaled antibody treatments for acute respiratory infections. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Invenio Imaging develops and provides imaging systems for medical use, such as the NIO Laser Imaging System for histology and tissue evaluation. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| LogicInk develops bio-chemical sensors that can be worn or applied daily to track various aspects of wellbeing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Madorra develops solutions to improve quality of life after menopause | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Nelumbo is a materials technology company with products spanning from refrigeration systems to textiles. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Newomics develops and provides omics solutions for precision medicine, including a unified multiomics platform and related technologies for mass spectrometry applications. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Resilient Biotics develops microbiome-based therapeutics and disease profiling | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Portfolio page | ||||
| SwineTech develops and provides swine management software powered by AI. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Valitor develops ophthalmic medicines using its multivalent biopolymer technology to improve patient outcomes in ophthalmology and vision-threatening diseases. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company extracts pure, drinkable water from the air anywhere on Earth using its proprietary desiccant and air-to-water technology. | Food & AgricultureClimate & Energy | Jul 2025Series A | Funding round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- bcfltd.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 10 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 21
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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