VC firm scours college classrooms for next Facebook

Nat Goldhaber wants to find the next promising technology startup. He says he’s more likely to discover it among the chalkboards of Berkeley than the whiteboards of Silicon Valley.

Goldhaber, managing director of venture-capital firm Claremont Creek Ventures, holds office hours once a month at the University of California, Berkeley, and has set up an incubator at its office in a historic building in nearby downtown Oakland that features a 120-foot-tall, gold-trimmed glass dome.

"When we find companies at UC Berkeley, we typically go to the laboratories and work directly with the professors and graduate students," Goldhaber said. "Some of them have incubated inside our physical facilities."

By Ryan Flinn Bloomberg News

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