Saru Recycling will compete in LaunchPad’s annual competition at Startup Grind’s Global Conference

Drug delivery and genomic sequencing startups are the first tenants

The UC Riverside startup won second place in the U.S. and will compete for $500,000 in October

Known as “The Godfather of the Maker Movement,” Hatch has raised tens of millions of dollars in investments for technology startups

A series of campus programs for undergraduates including workshops, networking events, and one-on-one mentoring will start this fall