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Is your law firm using patent software to the client's advantage?
Is your law firm using patent software to the client's advantage?
In a recent article on #AbovetheLaw, entitled “Greasing The Gears of Legal Commerce – Automatic, Systematic, Hydromatic…
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Future Tech: Legal software as as service has been around since the early 1990's, Law Firms are starting to embrace it.Jul 5, 2017
Future Tech: Legal software as as service has been around since the early 1990's, Law Firms are starting to embrace it.
Back in 1993, Irving Rappaport and his business partner, Kevin Rivette founded Smart Patents. The company was one of…
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What is Patent Landscape Analysis & Why is it important?Mar 21, 2017
What is Patent Landscape Analysis & Why is it important?
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How do you stay on top of competitor R&D programs?Sep 2, 2015
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Matt Rappaport reposted thisMatt Rappaport reposted thisQuantum hackathon and XPYQ product launch weekend for Berkeley Gateway Accelerator complete! What a great deep tech event with attendees from far and near! Thank you to all participants, observers, volunteers, BGA, and XPYQ. Special thanks to my Berkeley Haas EMBA colleagues for their support.
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Matt Rappaport reposted thisMatt Rappaport reposted thisJust wrapped the first quantum computing hackathon—and it was hands down one of the best hackathons I’ve ever been to. Huge credit to XPYQ Computing (“Spike”), a Berkeley Gateway Accelerator company, for hosting, and to the BGA team for organizing California’s first quantum hackathon. The energy was real, with top quantum scientists flying in from Boston to Silicon Valley to participate. If this is any indication, the momentum in deep tech at Berkeley Gateway Accelerator is only getting started.
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Matt Rappaport shared thisToday at the Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, we are hosting our first-ever Quantum Hackathon, and quite possibly one of the first quantum hackathons anywhere. Certainly the first with a pinata. Teams are building, collaborating, and getting their hands dirty with quantum computing in a way that most people never get to experience. The energy in the room is real and the fun is real. A huge thank you to the people who made it happen: Dilip Vasudevan, Kyle Valiton, Ayushman Dey, Emily Anderson, Ph.D., MBA, August Bernberg, Kavisha Shroff, Nirav Bisarya, and Marian Corpus. This kind of event doesn't come together without a lot of behind-the-scenes work, and this team is delivering. More to come. #QuantumComputing #DeepTech #BerkeleyGatewayAccelerator #Hackathon #BGA
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Matt Rappaport reposted thisMatt Rappaport reposted this⚡ Tomorrow's the day! The Quantum AI Hackathon kicks off Saturday at Berkeley Gateway Accelerator: two days of building real decision systems on frontier compute infrastructure. AI agents. IBM Quantum credits. XpyQ Cloud's first developer preview. Four tracks spanning trading, portfolio construction, risk/fraud, and applied AI. Observers welcome. Come watch what gets built. 📍 BGA HQ, Downtown Berkeley | May 30-31 Register here: https://luma.com/8q0dr4um Brought to you by Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, XpyQ, Oakland Hardware Meetup, and Informal Spaces, building the infrastructure for what's next, from compute to community. Special thanks to Kyle Valiton (Informal Spaces), Emily Anderson, Ph.D., MBA (BGA), Dilip Vasudevan (XpyQ), and Ayushman Dey (XpyQ).
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Matt Rappaport reposted thisMatt Rappaport reposted thisValency is Hiring! 🚀 Valency is the home for people-centered AI-accelerated research. Our rapidly growing team is looking for a Berkeley-based Senior Software Engineer who thrives deep in the code-base, raises the bar for everyone around them, and ships work that stands the test of time. You'll be a trusted voice in architectural decisions, a go-to resource for hard problems, and a mentor to the engineers around you, all while staying deeply hands-on. Sound interesting? Learn more here... https://lnkd.in/gxf_VaeK
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Matt Rappaport reposted thisMatt Rappaport reposted thisWhy Berkeley? And why now? Berkeley is one of the world’s most innovative ecosystems. Between 2024 and 2025, 88 Berkeley startups raised seed or venture capital, with $1.5B invested into the city’s startup ecosystem. Berkeley companies also received $40M in government R&D grants, further strengthening the link between research, technology, and company building. So why now? Because the next Berkeley Gateway Accelerator cohort is opening now, and your startup could be part of it. Through our 5-month Berkeley residency, deep tech founders receive $400K in investment, hands-on guidance from experienced operators, access to UC Berkeley talent, and a place to build in the heart of Silicon Valley. If you are building a startup around defensible technology, applications for Fall 2026 are now open → https://lnkd.in/ewCFVmrR Learn more → https://bga.tech/programs #Innovation #BerkeleyGatewayAccelerator #DeepTech
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Matt Rappaport shared thisTonight at Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, we packed the house for MoonTech: The New Space Economy. 400 people registered. The room is full. And the conversation is inspiring! Our panelists bring the full stack of the lunar economy into one room: Terry Fong (NASA Ames Chief Roboticist, Deputy Rover Lead on VIPER) on what autonomous systems actually need to do on the lunar surface. Alex Greenberg (Co-Founder, Loft Orbital) on why orbit-as-infrastructure is already here, and what that model means for the Moon. Patrick Beatty (Managing Director, Beyond Earth Ventures) on where the venture capital is going, and where the real gaps are. Emerson Garnett (Principal, Balerion Space Ventures) on defense, critical materials, and the companies building the industrial base beneath it all. Moderated brilliantly by Izen Thornton, Founder of FRANK Autonomous. We also heard a sharp lightning talk from Raphael Attié, PhD of HelioArc and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on space weather hazards to lunar surface assets. A reminder that the Moon's environment is not forgiving, and preparation is part of the business model. The thesis driving all of it: launch costs have collapsed, LEO is crowded, and the Moon is the next surface where private companies will operate at scale. NASA's CLPS program is pulling commercial providers onto the lunar surface whether the ecosystem is ready or not. The question isn't if. It's who, how fast, and where the gaps are. Grateful to everyone who is here. This is one of BGA's best panels yet! More to come. #DeepTech #SpaceTech #LunarEconomy #NewSpace #BerkeleyGatewayAccelerator
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Matt Rappaport reposted thisMatt Rappaport reposted thisDo you want to know what it is like to work inside a deep tech accelerator? With the BGA Summer Academy, you could. The Summer Academy is a three-week program for high school juniors, seniors, and undergraduates who want to learn by doing. Students work on real projects inside Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, learn from founders and operators, and build practical skills across communication, customer discovery, market analysis, AI tools, and venture creation. By the end of the program, students leave with real work, new relationships, and a clearer picture of where they want to go next. Applications are now open → https://lnkd.in/ebHhwNH6 Learn more → https://bga.tech/programs #Innovation #BerkeleyGatewayAccelerator #DeepTech
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Matt Rappaport reposted thisMatt Rappaport reposted thisThe timing couldn't be more perfect. 🌕 NASA just dropped a major update to its national space policy: phased Moon base construction, accelerated CLPS landings, nuclear propulsion to Mars by 2028. The lunar economy isn't coming. It's here. And tonight, we're talking about exactly that. MoonTech: The New Space Economy is TONIGHT at Berkeley Gateway Accelerator, bringing together engineers, investors, and builders to dig into where the commercial space stack is actually headed and who's building it. Kicking off with lightning talks from: ⚡ Jasmyne Commiskey: Civil Air Patrol ⚡ Raphael Attié: HelioArc Foundation Followed by a panel with: 🛸 Terry Fong: NASA Ames Research Center 🛸 Alex Greenberg: Loft Orbital 🛸 Patrick Beatty: Beyond Earth Ventures 🛸 Emerson Garnett: Balerion Space Ventures Moderated by Izen Thornton of FRANK Autonomous. Launch costs have collapsed. LEO is crowded. The Moon is next. The question isn't if, it's who, how fast, and where the gaps are. See you there. 🚀 https://luma.com/ixt4xv7p #NewSpaceEconomy #LunarEconomy #DeepTech #SpaceTech #BerkeleyGatewayAccelerator #MoonTech #CommercialSpace
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Matt Rappaport liked thisMatt Rappaport liked this“Power itself is a source of optimism. It’s easier to feel better about the future if you have an ability to shape it… But… overconfident ceos tend to hire overconfident cfos. If it’s optimists all the way down, you have a problem.”Why you should (almost) always look on the bright side of lifeWhy you should (almost) always look on the bright side of life
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Matt Rappaport liked thisMatt Rappaport liked thisI have never had hype-up music to walk on stage to until the S2G Summit. My only modest complaints are that 1) Sanjeev's song to start the day, Welcome to the Jungle, felt like a more appropriate title for my talk; 2) I had only 15 minutes to explain to a room full of investors and entrepreneurs how to understand and navigate today's complex investing environment and 3) when, as I stepped on stage, DJ Khaled asked for "everyone's hands go up," I did not, in fact, see everyone's hands go up. The exam question I was given mirrored what investors have been asking: how do I allocate capital with conviction and a margin of safety in a deglobalizing world with a complicated, rapidly evolving thicket (or, to keep the musical theme intact, jungle) of potential risks and opportunities. Three pieces of advice from me are: ➡️ Start with a good map: Start by seeking to understand the interplay of AI, energy, and security & resilience. And be sure to ground this understanding in reality vs. headlines (e.g. AI capex dominates headlines but energy transition capex is multiples larger with AI as only the 5th largest driver of that growth globally) ➡️ Watch for the forks in the road (or potentially the snakes in the grass?): The near-term race for GPUs and electrons, may have significant forks in the road to track. Will data centers evolve to models that get them online faster in exchange for some flexibility in their power demand (e.g. on-site generation/storage; operational flexibility)? Will system dynamics change substantially as inference moves to the periphery and potential to being on-device? ➡️ Bring your compass: What are the core tenants to navigating this potential opportunity set? Aim to find positive convexity to accelerating growth themes without leaning out the risk curve; center on evergreen robust and resilient value propositions (like saving money); target protected business models within value chains; get margin of safety by being on the right side of capital supply-demand imbalance Thanks S2G Investments, Sanjeev Krishnan, Chuck Templeton, Aaron R., Jessica Murphy so much for having me - great agenda, great content, great attendees.
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Matt Rappaport liked thisMatt Rappaport liked thisQuantum hackathon and XPYQ product launch weekend for Berkeley Gateway Accelerator complete! What a great deep tech event with attendees from far and near! Thank you to all participants, observers, volunteers, BGA, and XPYQ. Special thanks to my Berkeley Haas EMBA colleagues for their support.
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Matt Rappaport liked thisMatt Rappaport liked thisJust wrapped the first quantum computing hackathon—and it was hands down one of the best hackathons I’ve ever been to. Huge credit to XPYQ Computing (“Spike”), a Berkeley Gateway Accelerator company, for hosting, and to the BGA team for organizing California’s first quantum hackathon. The energy was real, with top quantum scientists flying in from Boston to Silicon Valley to participate. If this is any indication, the momentum in deep tech at Berkeley Gateway Accelerator is only getting started.
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Matt Rappaport liked thisMatt Rappaport liked thisToday, I officially became a published author. 📖 I am thrilled to announce the release of my first book, Setu (Sanskrit for 'bridge'). This book combines two of my deepest passions: climate/deep tech and the massive, evolving opportunity within the US-India corridor. We’ve watched this bilateral relationship evolve over decades. It started with Wave 1 (the BPO boom) and advanced through Wave 2 (the enterprise software and SaaS explosion). Today, we are standing at the precipice of Wave 3—a generational opportunity centered on climate, deep tech, and molecules. Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, deep-dive conversations with ecosystem leaders, and my ongoing Substack writings, Setu explores the "Why" and "How" behind this massive shift. The core premise? When the complementary strengths of the US and India align, they create a formidable powerhouse capable of driving the energy transition, accelerating materials discovery, and scaling industrial biotech to decarbonize our planet—all while unlocking unprecedented economic value. Whether you are: - An Investor or Philanthropist looking for the next frontier of impact, - An Entrepreneur seeking to scale a hard-tech climate solution, or - A Policymaker shaping international frameworks... ...Setu offers the strategic, actionable playbook you need for the decades ahead. How you can support: If this mission resonates with you, I would deeply appreciate your support. Grab your copy on Amazon, share this post with your network, and please leave a review! This book wouldn't exist without the incredible community of colleagues, friends, and mentors who challenged and encouraged me along the way. A special shout-out and heartfelt thank you to Manya Ranjan, Amish Parashar, Dave Blakely, Amit Pathare, Mark Kahn, Ankur Shrivastava, Pramod Kumbhar, and Parikshit Sharma for your invaluable support. The time to bridge the gap and build the Setu is now. Let’s get to work. 🚀 #setu #india-us-corridor #decarbonization #energy-transition #investment #climate-policy #growth-strategy #lifelong-learning Amazon: https://a.co/d/0c8ivDko Substack: https://lnkd.in/gGaDJRnQ
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Matt Rappaport liked thisMatt Rappaport liked thisHey everyone! Super excited to share about one of the best projects I have done here at University of California, Berkeley !!! For our ME235 Embedded Systems class, my friends and I built Project 67 (yep, that's what we named our creation), a gestural music instrument that you play by waving your hands in the air. A complete standalone device in which you can do audio synthesis, mixing, and effects! You wave your hand over 8 time-of-flight sensors and it plays piano, steel drums, trumpet, or 808 bass. You can switch to a drum kit, layer loops on top of each other, twist knobs for effects like echo and filters, and watch it all come alive on a 5-inch LCD. And the best part, we did all this with just a single ESP32! This wouldn't have been possible without the absolute best (GOATed) teammates ever, Lennart Peus, Lleyton Elliott and Wayne Toh! This project pushed us through a lot and countless all-nighters of hardware integration, a lot of software debugging, wiring, wiring and more wiring! Late nights, messy breadboards, and way too many GPIO pin conflicts later, we somehow pulled off something we are all really proud of, especially when we played "Levels" by Avicii at the end of our demo! And the cherry on top: we won the Best Overall Project award for the class! Also, it was super fun to see all of you who showed up and created some banger tunes on our device. Hopefully, we can share a cool video of this beauty with you all soon! It was so much fun working on ML, robotics, and projects like this at Berkeley that I feel like there are a few more project posts to update here before I share my graduation post! Cheers till then! #UCBerkeley #UCBerkeleyMEng #EmbeddedSystems #AudioEngineering
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Matt Rappaport liked thisMatt Rappaport liked this🎓 Officially a University of California, Berkeley Graduate! 🎓 But I'm not leaving Berkeley just yet! This summer, I will be joining the Model Predictive Control (MPC) Lab to work on an autonomous unmanned vehicle project for NIWC Pacific. This will allow me to continue with mechanical design for robotics, while getting hands on experience exploring the software and control side.
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Edoardo Zarghetta
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Small Modular Reactors Are Heating Up The recent traction shown by Radiant, highlighted by its successful Series B financing and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invitation to test their #Kaleidos reactor as early as 2026 is remarkable. IPO CLUB is tracking Radiant and other leading #startup in the #SMR space for our flagship America2030 fund, including X-energy and TerraPower. Congratulations to Doug Bernauer and the entire Radiant team. Note: While “heating up” may sound catchy, it's worth reflecting on its implications. For a deeper understanding of the risks and history of nuclear energy, I highly recommend “Chernobyl” by Harvard University professor Serhii Plokhii.
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Parminder Singh
Rex Capital LLC • 3K followers
A new AI model called MatterGen is revolutionizing materials science by creating tailored materials for future technologies. This breakthrough could accelerate the development of new materials for various applications, including batteries, fuel cells, and more. Here's what you need to know: ~ AI-Driven Material Discovery: MatterGen uses a diffusion model trained on a vast database of materials to generate new materials based on specific requirements and desired properties. ~ Efficiency and Accuracy: This approach is more efficient than traditional material search methods and has already led to the creation of a new material, TaCr2O6, with high compressive strength. ~ Open Source Innovation: MatterGen is available to everyone under an MIT license, fostering collaboration and accelerating the development of new materials for various applications. ReX Capital LLC is excited about the potential of AI to drive innovation in materials science. We believe that advancements like MatterGen can unlock the development of new materials that will enable the next generation of technologies and contribute to a more sustainable and prosperous future. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gFAS2e7Y
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Amish P.
Conduit Venture Labs • 6K followers
In hard-tech, the biggest moat isn’t a patent—it’s people! At Conduit, we quietly built one of the world’s most unique communities: a global network of over 200 engineers, operators, designers, supply chain veterans, and contract manufacturers—the Conduit Fellows. These are the men and women who have built, shipped, scaled the hardware and physical tech the world runs on. They’re the invisible force behind the devices in your hands, the sensors in your cars, and the machines on factory floors from Ohio to Shenzhen. They bring: 🛠 Decades of deep execution experience across product and manufacturing. 🌏 Access to global supply chains—from Tier 1 fabs in Taiwan to family-run suppliers in rural Europe. 🤝 Relationships forged in the real world, not just on pitch decks. This is Conduit’s edge (and our long term commitment). We don’t just aim to invest in physical technology. We build it. We de-risk it. We scale it. And we do it alongside the Fellows—those who’ve learned from the scars of failed pilots, lived through the pain of missed yield targets, and know what it takes to go from prototype to P&L. The future of physical AI, robotics, sensory systems, climate, and health-tech isn’t built in isolation. It’s built in community. That’s why we believe human capital is the most important infrastructure in hard-tech. If you’re building and investing the next generation of physical technology and want to be surrounded and supported by the best network in the world for execution—let’s talk. #HardTech #VentureCapital #ConduitVentureLabs #Hardware #Founders #EngineeringExcellence #ConduitFellows #SupplyChain #PhysicalAI #AIForTheRealWorld #PhysicalIntelligence #hardware (Meet some of our community > https://lnkd.in/ge6FK_cx)
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Maximilian Von Poelnitz
Ajinomoto Group Ventures • 9K followers
Episode 13 of the Easy VC Brief focused on one topic of deep tech - bio manufacturing. Talking about Mothership Materials and their work on sustainable feedstocks.🌿 It’s a bit shorter today but more focused. In a world conflicted and the 24 hour news cycle locked on the Iran War, I try to keep my mind focused on entrepreneurs who are trying to make the world better and there continues to be a big opportunity in bio manufacturing. #keepbuilding
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Nate Loewentheil
Commonweal Ventures • 18K followers
This week in #AmTech: Radiant raised over $300 million in new funding from Draper Associates, Boost VC, Founders Fund, ARK Investment Management LLC, Chevron Technology Ventures, DCVC, and others. Radiant develops portable, mass-produced nuclear microreactors that fit in shipping containers and can be deployed anywhere to provide reliable, zero-emissions baseload power for up to five years without refueling. By offering a transportable alternative to diesel generators, Radiant's reactors address America's need for energy resilience in disaster recovery and in remote locations where power infrastructure is unreliable. Founders: Doug Bernauer, Bob Urberger. EraDrive raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Haystack, Point Nine, Harpoon, Brave Capital, 2100 Ventures, and Entropy Industrial Capital. EraDrive builds self-driving modules that allow satellites to see and move independently without constant ground control. As orbital traffic becomes increasingly crowded and contested, EraDrive's technology is essential for protecting America's satellite infrastructure (which underpins GPS, communications, and national security systems). Founders: Sumant Sharma, Justin Kruger, Simone D'Amico. Axion raised $37 million in Series B funding from Salesforce Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Schneider Electric Ventures. Axion builds an AI-powered intelligence platform that helps manufacturers detect product quality problems before they become expensive recalls or widespread failures. By catching issues weeks or months earlier than traditional methods, Axion could give American manufacturers an edge as they compete against global rivals. Founder: Daniel First. #VC #VentureCapital #Startups #Investing #DeepTech #Energy #Satellites #Aerospace #Manufacturing
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Milo Werner
DCVC • 8K followers
The Process is the Product - a conversation on scaling new technologies with Raffi Garabedian, CEO of Electric Hydrogen as they bring up their first 100MW electrolyzer facility in TX. Raffi helped drive one of the most dramatic cost reductions in energy history, taking thin-film solar from niche curiosity to global commodity - now he brings that knowledge to reindustrialization the US! NextGen Industry Group David Eaglesham Derek Warnick https://lnkd.in/gZdAJumD
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