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Over the past few years, SkyDeck has been growing its team of Faculty Advisors to help its startups tap into the deep expertise of leading research professionals. Today, SkyDeck is excited to announce that Dr. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has become the Chair of Faculty Advisors.
On Friday, May 29th, SkyDeck will hold its first-ever virtual SkyDeck Alumni Reunion for startups that participated in the accelerator/cohort track. The event is the brainchild of the SkyDeck Alumni Council, a group of active alumni founders. “Particularly during this period of Coronavirus, bringing startup founders together…
It may come as no surprise to Berkeley students who have come to know SkyDeck’s name across campus that SkyDeck places a huge emphasis on matching Cal students for internships with their startups. For the last cohort of SkyDeck startups, the average team hired 7 interns…
Last Monday, SkyDeck welcomed 140 new startups to the program. Of these startups, 24 startups joined the accelerator track. Selected from a pool of 1,600 applicants, these startups represent countless sectors including AI, enterprise software, robotics, health, bioscience, and consumer solutions. More than half of the…
UC Berkeley SkyDeck, the startup accelerator of the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), today announces it has enrolled its largest startup cohort ever with 24 companies from the U.S. and 10 other countries. The new spring group of startups specialize in a wide…
UC Berkeley and UCSF recently joined forces to successfully host a cross-bay appathon, iHackHealth. Over the past few weeks, teams of designers, developers, change-makers, innovators, and health enthusiasts from both UC Berkeley and UCSF worked through a design innovation cycle to develop apps focused on improving research,…
San Francisco Business Times released last week the list of largest Bay Area startup accelerators in the Bay Area and Berkeley SkyDeck was ranked fourth largest. The rankings were based on the overall number of startups each accelerator worked with over the year, with a geographical…
The culmination of brain power and entrepreneurial effort was showcased on Tuesday, February 4th at SkyDeck’s Fall 2019 Demo Day. After an energizing kick-off from the Cal band, 23 innovative startups pitched to an audience of more than 700 well-respected, successful innovators.
UC Berkeley is not just one of the best research universities in the world, but also a unique place for entrepreneurs, students and alumni to grow and build their own innovative startups. Many of the ideas are based on issues young entrepreneurs first encountered in…
