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Global HQ
California, United States
Countries of investment
  • USA
Investment stages
  • Pre-Seed
  • Seed
  • Series A
  • Series B
Industries
  • Life Sciences
  • Bio Technology
  • Agricultural Tech
  • Clean Tech
  • Sensors
About
SkyDeck offers all the benefits of a traditional accelerator along with the vast resources of the world’s number one ranked public university.,Formed as a partnership betTheyen UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, the College of Engineering, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, SkyDeck offers a poTheyrful environment for startups to grow and launch. The robust and vibrant ecosystem includes a deep network of advisors, industry partners, and accredited investors.
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$250K
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$200K
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Investment Thesis

Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berkeley’s global startup accelerator. Named in Forbes as a top fiveU.S. university accelerator, SkyDeck combines handson mentorship with the vast resources of its research university.,Participating startups have access to SkyDeck’s 480 advisors, 50 industry partners, and a network of more than 510,000 UC Berkeley alumni.
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Team

SkyDeck Executive Team:

Caroline Winnett Executive Director

Sibyl Chen General Manager

George Panagiotakopoulos Head of Europe

Taylor Marcus Senior Manager

Business Development

Jun Jiang Senior Manager

Global Innovation Program

Gordon Peng Operations & Platforms Manager

Ekin Günaysu Senior Manager

Program

Jamie Thomas Program Coordinator

Kathy Chen Program Coordinator

SkyDeck Board of Directors:

TsuJae King Liu Dean

College of Engineering

Kathy Yelick ViceChancellor for Research

Ann Harrison Dean

Haas School of Business

Darren Cooke Interim Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer

SkyAmbassador Network:

Karén Gyulbudaghyan Managing Partner

Strategic Value Ventures

Jeep Kline Professional Faculty

Haas School of Business

Aleksander Kuczek Lecturer

AGH University of Sciences and Technology

Ciaran Quinn CEO

VEO2

Mitz Igarashi Founder

Simplex Holdings

SkyDeck Strategy Council:

Alberto SangiovanniVincentelli EECS Professor

Cadence and Synopsys

Brett Wilson Founder

TubeMogul

Charles Huang CoFounder

Blue Goji

James Lau SkyDeck Advisor

Kai Huang CoFounder

Flash Bike

Lisa Edgar Partner Emeritus

Top Tier Capital Partners

Marc Bensadoun Seedstage Investor and Advisor

Marc Meyer Member of Selection Committee

Harvard Business School Alumni

Matt Sonsini CEO

CIO

Sobrato Organization

Simon Ru Founder

UpNest

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SkyDeck DEI Committee:

Bridgette L. Smith CEO @ Founder Pitch Week

SkyDeck DEI Committee Chair

Francesca LeBaron Professional Faculty @ Berkeley Haas

Kira Noodleman Partner @ "Bee Partners"

Kara Sammet Founder & Principal

Gender Lenz

Jonathan Kalibbala Staff Technical Account Manager

Upbound

Elizabeth Redman Cleveland Chief Strategist

Sustainable Growth

City of Berkeley

Rosana R. Managing Partner

GWP Impact

Growing Well Partners

Juhi Saha Chief Executive Officer

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Portfolio

1Page

3dMetal

3rdiTech

4D Sight Inc

Accountstory

Adereso

AESOP Technology

AHEAD Medicine

Aiembodied

AimHub

Akin Mental Health

Algorized

Alloccasions

Allos AI

Alvva

Alyra

ANAFLASH INC

Appa Health

AppearMe

Ariadne Maps

Artivive

AsparaGlue

Assistive Technolog...

ATDev

Audemic Ltd

Augmental

Aura

Avion UAV

Axbryd

Axent Biosciences Inc.

Bennudata Inc.

Berkm

BioInspira

BiomimX Srl

Bioxplor

Bitbutter

Bitskout

Blings.io

Brightflow AI

Buck.ai

Bungee Tech

C. Light Technologi...

Cambridge Nucleomics

CancerFree Biotech Ltd

Canopy Analytics

CarbonGraph

Cargoful

CenSyn

Cerevox

Chameleon Biosciences

Chemix

Clearpol

CoGrader

ComfortZones

Compiify

Concha Labs

Converse Health

Coreshell

CryptoArsenal

Cura Therapeutics

Cyder Inc.

CYQIQ

Darmiyan

Datalogz

Datavia

Dcipher Analytics

Dedalo AI

Deepen

DeepScribe

DeepSeq.AI

Denovo Sciences

DevSpace

Dispatch Goods

Dispatch Goods

Distinkt

DocuVision

Donaa Limited

Dot Lab

Dough Pay

Dowork Technologies...

Drishya AI Labs Inc.

eCalCharge

Editpep

EfemaraiLabs

El Dorado P2P

Elin.ai

Empire Biotechnologies

Empowerly

Endocrine Biotherap...

Endometrics

Enerza Inc

Enkrypt AI

Essence Labs

Inc.

Evitado

Examus

Experify

Eyelevel.ai

Facile Therapeutics...

Falcomm

Fibulas

Fintellect

FiveBrane

Flux technology

Frontier Bio

Frontier Microscopy

Genomelink

GetMо

Gisens Biotech

Grido

Grovf

GuardHash

Güeno

Hayden AI Technologies

HDAX Therapeutics

Helean

Hermes Robotics Inc.

HEROTECH8 LTD

Hopeful Inc

HopShop

HUMM Technologies

HyLight

Hyperable Corp.

Hypernova Space Tec...

Hyperspec.ai

iDentical

ImmunoMind

Impressivo

InFLOWS AI

Inkah

InkSpace Imaging

INRŌ

Intento

Intone

Jacobi Robotics

Katakem

Keyword Hero

Kfobix Inc.

Kiwi Campus

Klaaryo

Korro Inc

Krisp

Kura Technologies

Kurier

kwikkart

lastbit

leadsales

Legato Logic

LEVEL 42 AI

Loxagen Inc

LQL

Manot

Matta Labs Ltd

May & Meadow

Mekonos

Mentalyc

Metricsbird

Inc

Milvia

MindsDB

Mithril Security

modelwise

Mon5 s.r.l.

Morelli Tech

MuMec

Music Health

MyMagic

Inc.

MZR Neurotech

Naming Matters

Nanode Battery Tech...

NeuraStasis

NeuroAge Therapeutics

NextBiotics

NineCap

NuPort Robotics Inc.

Obviously

Ochy

Offi

Okomera

Olfera

Onederful

Ontopical

Orbis AI

Orca

Organos

Inc.

Otterz

Inc.

Ottometric

Ozaru

Paidiem

Peanut Robotics

Peregrine Bio

Perfect Dashboard

Phononic Vibes

Pickaxe

PING

Plaid Semiconductors

Plino

Pow.bio

PredictEV

Pricer24

Profiter

Publica

Pyoneer

Quasara

Raise Robotics

Rangeview

Rangeview

re_data

RebX

Red Arrow TX

ReframeAI

ReRx

Researchably

Resonance

Revizion

RIIICO GmbH

RJH

Rock Rabbit

Roger

Root Applied Scienc...

Rounded

Seamless Microsystems

Seashore Networks

Sefi AI

SEMRON GmbH

Serinus Labs

Inc.

Silica Corpora

SimpleDataLabs

SirenOpt

Skills.tech

SkyAlert

Skyld

Skyloom Global

SmileyGo

Socialtrait.ai

SpeedLegal

Spext

SportsDynamics

Squishy Robotics

Starbutter AI

Stip

StudyFree

STYCKR

SuperAnnotate AI

SUPPLAI

Swift Charge

SWITCH

syGlass

SynderBio

Inc.

Taiga Robotics

Talent Academy

Tatum

Telos.AI

TeOra Pte Ltd

Tesserol

The Hurd Co

The SMBX

THEO

ThinkCyte

Titan AI

Traverse

Triton Cloud

Tyfast

Typeless

Upswot

Vectorly

VoiceBeam

Voiceform

Volo

WattWorker

Wave Photonics

Wavelength Global

WhatElse

Wing Assistant

Winko

Wonderfil

Workep

WorknGo Project

Worqout

XCloud Networks

Xoba

zHealth

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