Berkeley Physics alum—and serial entrepreneur—Hal Zarem says rather than pure research, he went into physics “knowing that I wanted to develop technologies for commercial applications and to do R&D where I could see the product being used in society.”
Today, Zarem is Chief Executive Officer of Holo, Inc., a metal additive manufacturing company in Newark, Calif. More than just a 3D printing company, he says, Holo has developed a photo polymer for its printers that is combined with powderized metal. “It turns out, we can make super-fine-...
Inspiration can arise from many unique moments in life, but for David Klein, founder of Gener8, LLC in Sunnyvale, Calif., the idea for his company popped up during a trip in the early 2000s with the Berkeley Hang Gliding Club. At the time, “a fair number of Berkeley physicists and engineers were in that group,” Klein recalls. He mentioned to a fellow Berkeley PhD, who was...