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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…
SkyDeck is excited to announce that Janet Napolitano, Professor of Policy at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, and founder of the Center for Security in Politics, will be joining SkyDeck as an Advisor.
On the hunt for groundbreaking lab equipment? Berkeley SkyDeck and UC Berkeley have you covered! In her latest Medium blog post, SkyDeck Executive Director Caroline Winnett shares about the incredible research offerings available to affiliated startups through the Berkeley Research Infrastructure Commons (RIC), the impact of these…
In her latest blog post on Medium, SkyDeck Executive Director Caroline Winnett shares the unique stories of founders of Coreshell Technologies, Dispatch Goods, and DeepScribe. All three companies came to SkyDeck at an early stage and have raised funds after graduating. Many things are different about…
UC Berkeley SkyDeck, the global startup accelerator of the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), along with Cariplo Factory, an innovation hub specializing in entrepreneurship programs, and Lendlease, a global real estate and investment group, today announce the launch of SkyDeck Europe, based in Milan,…
There are many workshops we host at SkyDeck for every batch of founders, and a perennial favorite in the last decade has always been SkyDeck Advisor David Riemer’s “Product Story” workshop. A few weeks ago, David released a new book, Getting Your Startup Story Straight. In her…
Deepscribe (Batch 8 Cohort) just announced a $30M Series A led by Index Ventures. Deepscribe helps doctors keep digital documentation on patient interaction and deployments using advanced AI. Today, they are scaling at 30% month-over-month with almost 600 physicians signed on. Read more about them…
SkyDeck would like to take a moment and thank each and every one of you for your ongoing interest and support. We have weathered a global pandemic together and are slowly moving our program back into a hybrid model with some programming for the Cohort…








