$71 Million in Private Capital for 15 von Liebig Startups

Since 2001, the Jacobs School's William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement has also:

• Awarded more than $2.8M in seed funding to 70 faculty projects
• Educated 350+ alumni via the von Liebig entrepreneurship curriculum

*Includes a one-time $3M buyout of NetSift by Cisco

Quanlight, a Tech Transfer Success Story

Quanlight CTO Vladimir Odnoblyudov (UCSD Ph.D., 2006, electrical engineering) and Charles Tu, electrical engineering professor, in their Jacobs School lab.

With seed funding and business plan classes, the von Liebig Center helped spark Quanlight—a 2006 Jacobs School startup. Quanlight has exclusively licensed a yellow-amber-red LED technology from UCSD.The new LEDs may find their way into LCD backlighting, projection light engines for televisions, signage, traffic signals, and architectural and theatrical lighting.

Quanlight CTO Vladimir Odnoblyudov (UCSD Ph.D., 2006, electrical engineering) is one of more than 350 Jacobs School alumni who have benefited from the von Liebig Center’s entrepreneurship curriculum. In fact, the business plan that Odnoblyudov wrote for a von Liebig class played a crucial role in grabbing the attention of Neil Senturia, principal of Blackbird Ventures, who would go on to become Quanlight’s CEO.The $4M in venture capital that Quanlight has raised is part of the $71M pulled in by the 15 companies the von Liebig Center has nurtured.

The von Liebig seed funding that Odnoblyudov and his faculty advisor, Charles Tu, received made up some of the $2.8M that has gone to 70 faculty projects for pre-commercialization support.