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UC Berkeley's global startup accelerator/incubator, supporting entrepreneurs & moonshot startups globally! Our startups have cumulatively raised $1.8B+.

Berkeley, California
Joined March 2013
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🚀Applications for Berkeley SkyDeck’s Accelerator are open! 🌍No UC affiliation required: Any founder, any country. Startups get: 💸$210K funding, $1.3M in resources 🎤VC intros 🤝975+ advisors ℹ️Join info sessions:tinyurl.com/3sfvxcuk ⏰Apply by 8/21:tinyurl.com/3ykwzbhs
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🌍🇰🇷 Applications are open! We're partnering with KISED to bring Korea’s top innovators to Silicon Valley! 📅 Application deadline: Sept 14 • Program: Oct 26 – Nov 20 👉 Apply: k-startup.go.kr/web/s/C9SRDX…
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🚀 SkyDeck’s newsletter is live! 💡 From Office Hours to CPO: Enkrypt AI’s exit 🔬 40 new advisors, incl. Mammoth Bio & ITRI leaders 🏛️ UC Berkeley hiring EDs for LSEC & ATEC ⚡ Wins from Light Links, Code Blue AI & more! Read: tinyurl.com/3c3cpz9s #SkyDeck #Startups #AI
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The latest Berkeley SkyDeck newsletter is live! 🚀 Batch 23 applications open (due Aug 21) 🤖 @chontang on AI’s move to outcome pricing 🎓 Fall Intern Fair registration live 🤝 Startup wins from Modelwise, KwikKart, & more! Read more: mailchi.mp/berkeley/skydeckn…
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🎯UC Berkeley students - need a fall internship? Join SkyDeck’s 8/28 Virtual Intern Fair & take your career to the next level! 🚀Gain hands-on experience in software, marketing, operations, & more with startups in various sectors & with SkyDeck itself. 🔗tinyurl.com/SDIF26
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The latest Berkeley SkyDeck newsletter is live! 🗓️Investors - RSVP to our next Demo Day (9/30) 🏆UC Berkeley is #1 public US university again ⚽ @FIFAWorldCup: 5 teams used alum @Sports_Dynamics' tech 🤝We partnered with tech giant NEC X Details & more: tinyurl.com/bdv4bt9k
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🚀The latest Berkeley SkyDeck newsletter is live! 🌏Scaling our Japan initiatives + 2 new hires 🏆AI Hackathon winner joins our Batch 23 incubator program 💰Netris closed a $15M Series A 🎤2 SkyDeck advisors were published in Forbes 🔗All this & more here: tinyurl.com/3jj2upv3
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🌟Huge congratulations to Berkeley's own Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli on being shortlisted for the UC Regents Innovation Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement! ⚡He co-founded two $100B giants (@Synopsys & @Cadence) and literally helped build the modern chip industry.
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🎥 See Alberto tell his story firsthand - including the time his tools saved the historic Intel 386 chip: youtu.be/rqN2uZ_kDCA
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🚀From consumer tech to the AI infrastructure powering the future, the modern world runs on tools Alberto helped create. 🐻A member of UC Berkeley's EECS faculty since 1976 and co-chair of SkyDeck’s Chip Track, he is a true Berkeley legend. Go Bears!
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⚡ Our latest newsletter is live! 🚀 SkyDeck alum El Dorado raises $9M Series A 🧬 Bio+Health Track dinner has its highest turnout yet. 🛠️ Welcome 2026 Mayfield AI Garage winners SKUNet.ai & Working Memory to Pad-13! All this and more: mailchi.mp/berkeley/skydeckn…
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🚀 The latest Berkeley SkyDeck newsletter is live! 🔥 UC Berkeley named #1 of the decade for venture-backed startups!” 🎤 @ericries fireside chat 🤝 Microsoft for Startups partnership 🏆 Awards for Arjun Singh & Charles Huang 🔗tinyurl.com/5ff5hxya
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🚀Berkeley SkyDeck’s latest newsletter is out! 🏆Congrats to Collider Cup winners joining Pad-13! 🎤Brian Bordley talks scaling deep tech at Synopsys Converge 💼NEW job board + student intern fair tomorrow 💰Alkemio raises $2M 🔗Full details here: tinyurl.com/mruhwhsx
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🚀 SkyDeck’s latest newsletter is live! 🎤 Batch 21 Demo Day is a wrap 🏆 Darren Cooke named Berkeley’s permanent CIEO 💡 Celebrating our advisors and alumni 👉 Read it here: tinyurl.com/y6spbhnv #BerkeleySkyDeck #Startups
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🚀Berkeley SkyDeck Batch 21 Demo Day is a wrap. 17 founders from 13 countries. One electric afternoon at Zellerbach Hall - & a Demo Night that brought the whole ecosystem together. 👉Meet the startups skydeck.berkeley.edu/batch21… 👉More in @SFBusinessTimes: bizj.us/1qppru
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🚀Berkeley SkyDeck's Batch 21 founders are ready to take the stage at Demo Day on April 2! 📰Read what our Executive Director @carolinewinnett shared with @deantak at @GamesBeat: bit.ly/4bPSoKm 🎟️Accredited investors - get your Demo Day invite: bit.ly/4bcyZTu
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