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Berkeley SkyDeck has been supporting nearly 300 startups a year on their moonshot trajectories. Now, we are on a moonshot trajectory of our own: increasing the number of startups hosted per year.

OAKLAND, Calif. — A global shortage of semiconductors has cast a cloud over the plans of carmakers and other companies. But there’s a silver lining for Silicon Valley executives like Aart de Geus. He is chairman and co-chief executive of Synopsys, the biggest supplier of software that engineers use…

Most of us will never win a Nobel Prize, but UC Berkeley is offering everyone the opportunity to purchase the next best thing: non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for the patent disclosures at the heart of two Nobel Prize-winning inventions from the university’s research labs. 

This past Wednesday, SkyDeck hosted TubeMogul CEO Brett Wilson as the first featured SkyDive speaker of Batch 12. SkyDive is a monthly talk for cohort startups featuring a special guest who shares insights and lessons learned from their own journey as a startup founder.

A little over one month from now, SkyDeck will be hosting Demo Day for the Canadian Tech Accelerator on June 24th. The Canadian Tech Accelerator (CTA) is an initiative funded by Global Affairs Canada, which has a stated mission of defining, shaping and advancing Canadian…

SkyDeck is proud to welcome 120 startups to its Batch 12 program. 18 of these 120 startups are part of SkyDeck’s Accelerator Cohort program and come from eight countries representing many different fields such as robotics, biotech, and enterprise SaaS.

with 17 startups participating, Berkeley SkyDeck’s Demo Day isn’t the largest cohort we’ve seen by any stretch. The collection of companies is, however, defined by a wide range of focuses, from pioneering diabetes treatments to retrofitting autonomous trucking, curated by the SkyDeck’s small team and…