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DAVE WINNACKER stood on a hill in Northern California as flames devoured the houses below him. The Alameda County Fire Department division chief had fought wildfires before, but the 2017 North Bay Fires felt different. A sense of helplessness overcame him as he watched them burn. I had engines assigned to them, he says. But you couldn t stop it.
A former Marine (and now a fire chief in the Bay Area s Moraga-Orinda Fire District), Winnacker was one of more than 10,000 firefighters who battled the infernos, which raged for three weeks. The blaze tore through a quarter-million acres, killed 44 people, and destroyed over 6,000 homes. At times, it spread at a rate of one football field every three seconds. The damage totaled $13 billion, a new U.S. record that would fall the following year.
A search-and-rescue robot from Squishy Robotics, one of the finalists in UC’s Startup Innovation Challenge.
The University of California has selected 10 finalists for its 2021 Startup Innovation Challenge, held in partnership with Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), the world’s largest tech-for-good startup competition. The chosen finalists are comprised of companies with game-changing ideas for fighting climate change, feeding the world, curing diseases and saving the day with robots that can be airdropped into disaster zones.
The finalists will pitch their startups to investors at the Global Corporate Venturing Digital Forum in late January as they compete to take home one of two $50,000 prizes. Finalists will also receive pro bono legal services, be mentored by venture capital judges and have a chance to advance as finalists in XTC’s regional startup competition. All startups that applied to the competition are still in the running for XTC.