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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,…
Berkeley SkyDeck has officially opened applications for Batch 22, and we’re calling on our extended community of tech leaders, operators, and accelerator alumni to help spread the word – and to invite promising founders to attend an upcoming virtual info session to learn more. SkyDeck supports exceptional early-stage startups from…
UC Berkeley hosted the statewide launch of Quantum California on November 7. This new private-public initiative announced by Governor Gavin Newsom aims to unite university researchers, national labs, industry leaders, and policymakers to turn California’s quantum talent into breakthrough innovation.
It was a big week at Berkeley SkyDeck, with momentum building across the board as we kicked off Batch 21, hosted major thought leadership, and deepened ties across the Berkeley research community. Batch 21 began on November 3rd, following a record number of applications and a 25%…
This week, SkyDeck was thrilled to celebrate the launch of Startup Campus: The Future of Innovation at Berkeley, a new book charting Berkeley’s rise as a global leader in entrepreneurship. Held at Bakar Bio Labs, the event featured opening remarks by author Mike Alvarez Cohen…
Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 20 Demo Day brought together 19 exceptional startups last week. Selected from a record-breaking 3,000 applications, each startup received a $200K investment from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund upon joining SkyDeck six months ago and is now supported by our network of expert…
