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Last Tuesday, SkyDeck hosted a dynamic fireside chat with Scott Kupor, author of Secrets of Sand Hill Road and a leading voice in venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The event was standing room only, as Scott shared key insights from his book, including its inspiration, lessons…
The SkyDeck Fund is excited to welcome two new members to its team, Riddhi Khanna and Capucine du Besset, as Platform Associates. Both will be focused on deal sourcing, further developing the platform for SkyDeck startups, and facilitating greater connectivity between the SkyDeck network, potential…
Join TechCrunch’s climate-tech conference, TC Sessions: Climate, on June 14th at UC Berkeley. The single day event features some of today’s biggest names, such as Impossible Foods founder, Pat Brown, SOSV’s General Partner, Pae Wu, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Professor Bill Collins among many others….
Last Wednesday, the campus leaders at UC Berkeley met with VCs at an exclusive UC Berkeley: Next Gen Entrepreneurship event to celebrate the launch of the new Bakar BioEnginuity Hub (BBH), a 40,000 sq ft home for world class life science startups. The event featured three speakers,…
Berkeley SkyDeck kicked-off its Batch 14 Program on Monday. Nearly 110 startups joined in person for orientation. The SkyDeck Penthouse was abuzz again for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The energy was high as VCs showed up last Wednesday for SkyDeck’s Batch 13 Demo Day at Zellerbach. It has been two years since SkyDeck’s last in-person Demo Day in February 2020. The Demo Day was held at Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, with over…
In an exclusive podcast, Berkeley SkyDeck Executive Director Caroline Winnett chats with Amazon best-selling author David Riemer on his new book, Get Your Startup Story Straight: The Definitive Storytelling Framework for Innovators and Entrepreneurs. What is storytelling? What are techniques you can use to make your…
Berkeley SkyDeck will be hosting an in-person Demo Day on April 6th. All accredited investors interested in hearing from SkyDeck’s current Batch 13 startups and a few alumni startups that are raising a Series A round are welcome to join in-person or via virtual livestream.
Last Thursday, Berkeley SkyDeck announced the closure of SkyDeck Fund II with $60M in commitments. Oversubscribed and three times larger than Fund I, Fund II highlights a diverse group of new and returning investors at the forefront of Silicon Valley’s innovation. The SkyDeck Fund also…
