Quick Facts
- QB3 is a joint venture between the three University of California campuses at Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz
- QB3 founded the first startup incubator in the UC system, the QB3 Garage, at UCSF in 2006
- The QB3 incubator network now includes three campus sites and two private partners
- 45 companies currently rent space in the network
- Combined, these companies have raised over $230 million in venture financing
- QB3’s director Reg Kelly is the first and only active academic named to the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame
- Number of QB3 faculty members: 223
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators: 22
- Members, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies: 7
- Members, National Academy of Engineering: 3
- Members, National Academy of Sciences: 30
- Recipients, National Medal of Science: 1 (Richard Karp)
- Nobel Laureates: 2 (Steve Chu, Elizabeth Blackburn)
