UC Venture Lab Demo Day Spring 2026
Join us for the Venture Lab Accelerator's fifth cohort Demo Day at the 1819 Innovation Hub ! Hear from 6 new companies disrupting in spaces ranging from SaaS to biofuels.
Agenda:
4:30-5:00: Doors open, refreshments
5:30-6:30: Pitches
6:30-7:00: Networking
Meet the Cohort:
Kloob, founder Emilio Sese
Kloob is an events management platform that helps leaders plan, promote, and run events- so communities stay engaged without burning out. Emilio created kloob after years of planning events and leading student organizations, where he repeatedly saw the same pattern: leaders burn out, and when leaders burn out, communities die. Event planning today is fragmented across group chats, spreadsheets, forms, and social media, making it stressful to run events and hard for members/patrons to even know what’s happening. Kloob exists to fix how communities actually run events.
Open Prem, cofounders Tessa Manuszak and Evan Moore
Open Prem provides an open-source foundation for building and connecting AI applications across any environment. It empowers developers and organizations to create, deploy, and scale AI solutions securely and collaboratively, without the limitations of proprietary platforms. The founder is a Venture Lab co-working resident, founded by a former UC Computer Science Engineer student turned entrepreneur.
Persistent Cyber Improvement, cofounder Richard and Kathryn Harknett
Persistent Cyber Improvement (PCI) is a cyber security transformation enabler that moves organizations beyond mere compliance processes to persistent, whole-of-organization cyber improvement postures PCI’s flagship product, PE: Digital Cyber Exercise, is a digitized, interactive training and exercise platform based on years of operational research and derived from a novel board game tested across audiences ranging from novice participants to senior government cyber operators.
REVL, founder Isaiah Clifford
REVL is a safety technology platform in which automobile operators can utilize AI insights and data analytics to reduce the likelihood of an accident based on current driving conditions. The platform offers low-distraction delivery to inform drivers of the key variables that influence risk. The company is led by a UC Lindner alum and a his co-founder a CEAS grad student.
Sensory Robotics, founder Mark Gagas
Sensory Robotics empowers modern manufacturers to eliminate traditional safety compromises by delivering advanced 3D sensing and intelligent safety solutions that enable humans and robots to work side-by-side without fences or barriers. Their flagship SR-1 system enhances workplace safety, boosts productivity, and maximizes automation performance by combining full human detection coverage with seamless integration into existing industrial environments. The company wants to take UC's machine vision software technology to incorporate it into their tech stack.