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Newsletter – September 26, 2024

SkyDeck has published the list of startups that will be pitching at its Demo Day on October 1st. 19 innovative startups – focused on AI, climate tech, robotics, blockchain, and more – will present to top Silicon Valley investors. “SkyDeck has always sought out companies…

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Newsletter – September 4, 2024

Chon Tang, Founding Partner of Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, recently appeared on the Venture with Grace podcast hosted by Grace Gong. Chon shared his expertise on evaluating early-stage tech startups, discussed how SkyDeck leverages UC Berkeley’s resources, and quantitative investment strategies. With over 12 years of…

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‘AI for Good’: Developers seek to solve real-world problems at UC Berkeley hackathon

Using artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems, 1,200 developers vied for venture capital funding and other prizes over the weekend at a UC Berkeley hackathon. Participants competed Saturday and Sunday in the field of generative AI, which consumes data, learns from it, then produces text,…

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Newsletter – June 5, 2024

The UC Berkeley AI Hackathon is ramping up to be the biggest in-person AI hackathon ever, organized in partnership between SkyDeck and Hackathons@Berkeley once again. This time around, 10 additional hackathon groups and accelerators from top universities have joined as marketing partners, such as Stanford’s…

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Newsletter – May 15, 2024

Last year’s UC Berkeley AI LLM Hackathon made history as the largest in-person AI hackathon ever, drawing over 1,200 hackers from 250+ global universities and 15 countries, and sponsored by industry giants, such as OpenAI, Microsoft, and Mayfield, with judges from top VCs like Lightspeed…

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Newsletter – April 17, 2024

Last Wednesday, Rich Lyons, UC Berkeley’s Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) Officer, was announced as UC Berkeley’s next Chancellor. The former Dean of the Haas Business School has spent the past several years in a key leadership role on Berkeley’s campus,…

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Newsletter – April 4, 2024

VentureBeat has published an article covering Berkeley SkyDeck’s upcoming Batch 17 Demo Day, spotlighting the fact that despite shifts in the greater macro-economic landscape, SkyDeck startups have raised over $200M in the last 12 months…

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Newsletter – March 14, 2024

Berkeley SkyDeck announced its partnership with the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, marking a milestone in fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration at UC Berkeley. Select hardware companies from SkyDeck will have exclusive access to the JIDI’s cutting-edge facilities for prototyping hardware and products…

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Press Release – Berkeley SkyDeck Offers Hardware Startups Access to State-of-the-Art Design and Manufacturing Prototyping

BERKELEY, Calif., February 27, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Berkeley SkyDeck, a global hub for entrepreneurship and a leading accelerator, today announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, UC Berkeley’s state-of-the-art interdisciplinary hub for learning and making at the…