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Last Friday, Berkeley SkyDeck hosted the Berkeley Civic Innovation Challenge (CIC) Grand Prize Pitch Day, a joint initiative by UC Berkeley Big Ideas and the City of Berkeley. The room reflected the unique DNA of the Berkeley ecosystem: deep technical rigor, cross-sector collaboration, and founders…
What does it take to build an AI company that endures beyond market cycles? In his latest blog, “Cockroaches, Not Unicorns,” Berkeley SkyDeck Fund Managing Partner, Chon Tang, argues that enduring AI companies are built through customer value, capital discipline, and long-term resilience. “The market…
Berkeley SkyDeck and Synopsys brought founders, investors, and industry leaders together at the Silicon Horizon summit in Mountain View last week to explore what will shape the next decade of chips – and one thing is abundantly clear: we have entered a new era for semiconductor innovation. …
Berkeley SkyDeck has officially opened applications for Batch 22, and we’re calling on our extended community of tech leaders, operators, and accelerator alumni to help spread the word – and to invite promising founders to attend an upcoming virtual info session to learn more. SkyDeck supports exceptional early-stage startups from…
UC Berkeley hosted the statewide launch of Quantum California on November 7. This new private-public initiative announced by Governor Gavin Newsom aims to unite university researchers, national labs, industry leaders, and policymakers to turn California’s quantum talent into breakthrough innovation.
It was a big week at Berkeley SkyDeck, with momentum building across the board as we kicked off Batch 21, hosted major thought leadership, and deepened ties across the Berkeley research community. Batch 21 began on November 3rd, following a record number of applications and a 25%…
This week, SkyDeck was thrilled to celebrate the launch of Startup Campus: The Future of Innovation at Berkeley, a new book charting Berkeley’s rise as a global leader in entrepreneurship. Held at Bakar Bio Labs, the event featured opening remarks by author Mike Alvarez Cohen…
Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 20 Demo Day brought together 19 exceptional startups last week. Selected from a record-breaking 3,000 applications, each startup received a $200K investment from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund upon joining SkyDeck six months ago and is now supported by our network of expert…
UC Berkeley continues to prove why it’s the best university to launch bold ideas. Forbes recently ranked Berkeley the #1 public university in the U.S. and #5 overall among all undergraduate colleges, recognizing the unmatched value, career outcomes, and global impact of its graduates. And according to PitchBook’s…
