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Our Impact
Incubating Startups
ICSI offers a powerful springboard to transform ideas into commercially valuable applications. With the flexibility to commercialize innovations in a uniquely interdisciplinary environment, ICSI researchers have spun off major companies across spaces such as networking, security, and privacy—some valued over $900 million.
“ICSI provides tremendous flexibility, which has allowed the networking group to evolve our funding models (from the early AT&T support to government grants) and research focus (network security has played an increasing role in our research, while other areas have diminished). In addition, the close proximity to UC Berkeley gives researchers access to a broad set of collaborators. All of these factors make ICSI a great place to pursue innovative ideas.”
Scott Shenker
Principal Scientist and Group Lead for Networked Systems
“ICSI incubated our startup, AppCensus, and is our only external shareholder beyond the four founders. Since we had customers from day one, that allowed us to grow the company without pursuing more funding or having to sacrifice our values in doing so.”
Serge Egelman
Senior Research Scientist and Group Lead for Usable Privacy and Security
“I’ve had a lot of freedom over the years to be able to follow where I want to go with my research […] the flexible employment model has also allowed me to pursue a startup—including being eligible for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding—while maintaining health benefits and a salary through ICSI. It would actually be much harder to do this as a university faculty member.”
Nicholas Weaver
ICSI Senior Research Scientist
Incubating Startups
Impact Stories
A Revolution with ICSI Roots
How a summer internship at ICSI helped spark Software Defined Networking—transforming the future of network management
Impact Stories
From Concept to Company
How an idea incubated at ICSI became one of today’s leading network security monitoring platforms
Impact Stories
Exposing—and Closing—Gaps in Mobile Privacy
How ICSI researchers uncover privacy violations in children’s apps, spurring lawsuits, reforms, and a startup to protect user data
Impact Stories
Incubating Innovation: The ReMeeting Journey
How a speech tech startup born at ICSI helped shape the future of voice-driven collaboration
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