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Over 1,200 computer hackers from around the world packed UC Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union last weekend during a 36-hour artificial intelligence (AI) learning language model (LLM) hackathon that Berkeley leaders say was the largest event of its kind. Dubbed “the Woodstock of Hackathons,” the event was…
SkyDeck Fund Manager Chon Tang talks about how fundraising and venture has changed in the past year, and how the SkyDeck ecosystem is poised to meet new challenges and seek new opportunities in the current normal.
Over the past few years, under the leadership of UC Berkeley’s Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer, Rich Lyons, the Berkeley innovation ecosystem has been coalescing and finding greater synergy between the many established and growing centers, labs, accelerators, incubators, and departments…
Berkeley SkyDeck has been on its own fast growing trajectory over the past few years. It is the global hub for entrepreneurship and a leading accelerator, shaping our collective future by empowering startups to thrive. As an arm of UC Berkeley, SkyDeck combines hands-on mentorship…
Are you ready to take your startup to the next level? Applications for Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 17 Acceleration Program are open and are on track to double the number of applications from the current batch. Our hybrid program offers founders a chance to tap into…
Applications for Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 17 Acceleration Program opened last Monday! Now in its 11th year of operation, SkyDeck has worked with over 1,400 startups over the past decade. On the eve of announcing the open applications, SkyDeck also announced that it had launched a…
Lowercarbon Capital general partner Shuo Yang serving as track chair for newest specialized track
SkyDeck hosted its largest Demo Day in Berkeley last week, with over 320 in-person guests and another 900 attendees online! Batch 14’s innovative founders presented their startups, which included solutions for endometriosis (an incredibly painful disease afflicting women), tools to accelerate integrated photonics design, a…
SkyDeck’s Executive Director, Caroline Winnett, was interviewed for Crunchbase’s “Female Leaders Series,” in which Winnett reflects that the soft skills of “grit, determination, and discipline” that she gained in pursuit of her professional music career, also helped her succeed as a serial entrepreneur. For entrepreneurs just starting…
With the season of applications in the air, startups that are gunning to join an accelerator and leverage the benefits of an insta-network often wonder what the process for selection actually looks like. In his latest blog, SkyDeck Fund’s Founding Partner, Chon Tang, takes readers…
Applications for Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 15 Acceleration Program have just opened. Apply by Aug. 31st here! SkyDeck’s hybrid acceleration program allows global startup founders direct access to Silicon Valley through the collective resources of the entire UC Berkeley ecosystem. In her latest blog post, Caroline Winnett…
Berkeley SkyDeck is hosting the Batch 14 Virtual Pitch Showcase on Thursday, August 4th! Select SkyDeck Europe, Pad-13, and IPP companies will be pitching, followed by one-minute feedback from each of the judges. Judges include Caroline Winnett (Executive Director, SkyDeck), David Riemer (author of Get Your…
Berkeley SkyDeck is well known for hosting the largest Demo Day in the Bay Area for the startups in its accelerator, but it also hosts each cohort a pitch competition featuring the startups in its incubator and Innovation Partner Program. This time around, SkyDeck will…
The SkyDeck Fund is excited to welcome two new members to its team, Riddhi Khanna and Capucine du Besset, as Platform Associates. Both will be focused on deal sourcing, further developing the platform for SkyDeck startups, and facilitating greater connectivity between the SkyDeck network, potential…
Join TechCrunch’s climate-tech conference, TC Sessions: Climate, on June 14th at UC Berkeley. The single day event features some of today’s biggest names, such as Impossible Foods founder, Pat Brown, SOSV’s General Partner, Pae Wu, and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Professor Bill Collins among many others….
Last Wednesday, the campus leaders at UC Berkeley met with VCs at an exclusive UC Berkeley: Next Gen Entrepreneurship event to celebrate the launch of the new Bakar BioEnginuity Hub (BBH), a 40,000 sq ft home for world class life science startups. The event featured three speakers,…
Berkeley SkyDeck kicked-off its Batch 14 Program on Monday. Nearly 110 startups joined in person for orientation. The SkyDeck Penthouse was abuzz again for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
