Frontier Microscopy

If you’ve seen the headlines but haven’t acted yet, this is your final reminder. Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 21 Demo Day is happening April 2nd. With SkyDeck alumni having raised over $2.7B to date, the founders taking the stage this year...

It was a full house at SkyDeck last week, as big ideas took center stage at SkyDeck’s Batch 21 Pad-13 Pitch Competition, where the top 10 Pad-13 startups (selected from a competitive pool of 53) presented their bold ideas to...

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...

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,...