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What drives someone to leave everything familiar behind and chase a global vision? When Genomelink co-founder Tomohiro “Tomo” Takano first landed in the Bay Area, he had no visa, no funding, and no traction — only a bold idea: to build a “DNA App Store” that would…
Using artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems, 1,200 developers vied for venture capital funding and other prizes over the weekend at a UC Berkeley hackathon. Participants competed Saturday and Sunday in the field of generative AI, which consumes data, learns from it, then produces text,…
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 are the next generation of…
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 a panel of seasoned judges…
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. …
