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Applications for Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 17 Acceleration Program opened last Monday! Now in its 11th year of operation, SkyDeck has worked with over 1,400 startups over the past decade. On the eve of announcing the open applications, SkyDeck also announced that it had launched a…

Lowercarbon Capital general partner Shuo Yang serving as track chair for newest specialized track

Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 17 Acceleration Program will begin accepting applications on July 25th at 8am PT. Our hybrid program offers startup founders exclusive access to Silicon Valley via the UC Berkeley ecosystem. Selected startups will receive a $200,000 investment from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, along…

Berkeley SkyDeck and Cal Hacks recently co-hosted the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon, the largest Generative AI LLM hackathon ever, which brought 1,200 hackers from around the world to the Berkeley campus for an intense 36 hours. Four startups, Metropolis, CureGenie, Prosper AI, and ALIGNED, won…

This past weekend, Berkeley SkyDeck and Cal Hacks co-hosted the inaugural UC Berkeley AI LLM Hackathon, which brought 1,200 students and recent graduates together from universities across the world for an intense 36 hours of building AI LLM (large language model) solutions, with a focus…

Over 1,200 computer hackers from around the world packed UC Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union last weekend during a 36-hour artificial intelligence (AI) learning language model (LLM) hackathon that Berkeley leaders say was the largest event of its kind. Dubbed “the Woodstock of Hackathons,” the event was…

Berkeley SkyDeck and Cal Hacks are thrilled to announce the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon, the largest AI hackathon ever. Held on the UC Berkeley campus, from June 17-18th, the hackathon offers the opportunity to develop skills and build meaningful connections, and will also feature workshops,…

SkyDeck was pleased to kick-off the opening weeks of Batch 16 with a series of intimate Midas series fireside chats, featuring Amit Kumar (Partner, Accel), Shuo Yang (Partner, Lowercarbon Capital), and Bobby Yazdani (Founder and Partner, Cota Capital), with more Midas and Unicorn fireside chats…

After receiving a record number of applications, Berkeley SkyDeck kicked-off Batch 16 on May 2nd, with over 100 startups joining our Cohort, Europe, IPP, and Pad-13 programs. Of the Cohort startups, Chon Tang (Founding Partner, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund) says “the quality of the founders we…