Berkeley SkyDeck

🏁 Ready to take your startup to the next level? Join Berkeley SkyDeck’s world-class accelerator program. 🔥 SkyDeck alumni like Coreshell and MindsDB are transforming industries - your startup could be next. Join SkyDeck and get: 💸 $200K investment 🧠 Mentorship from 900+ expert advisors 🌍 Specialized programming & networking 🤝 Opportunity to pitch to 850+ Silicon Valley investors ℹ️ Watch our info session: https://lnkd.in/gi8zgnbd 📅 Apply by Feb. 13 (UC affiliation not required): https://lnkd.in/fwmihM5 #Founders #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #SkyDeck #UCBerkeley #GlobalStartups #SkyDeckApply

📈 In an era of AI hype cycles, endurance beats spectacle. 📝 In his latest blog “Cockroaches, Not Unicorns,” Berkeley SkyDeck Fund Managing Partner Chon Tang shares what it really takes to build AI startups that endure beyond the bubble: • Customer-driven value • Capital discipline • Long-term resilience through market cycles 🪳 “It’s time to cockroach, and survival is the name of the game.” 👉 Want to build what lasts? Read the full blog for tips: https://lnkd.in/g58baRng 🚀 Building an AI startup for the long haul? SkyDeck applications are open now through Feb. 13: https://lnkd.in/fwmihM5 #AIstartups #StartupFounders #VentureCapital #AIinnovation #BerkeleySkyDeck #SkyDeck #SkyDeckApply #AIbubble

🚀 We’re hiring a Business Development Manager - join our team and work at the intersection of startups, venture capital, and global partnerships! 🗣️ As UC Berkeley’s top global accelerator - supporting 250+ startups per year - this role offers the opportunity to collaborate with industry titans and the most ambitious founders shaping the future of technology. This role is a great fit if you enjoy: • Building relationships with partners and founders • Working directly with startups and innovation at scale • Planning and leading high-impact events • Being part of a mission-driven team at UC Berkeley 🤝 You’ll help bring in and manage partnerships that give founders real resources, while shaping how SkyDeck engages with corporate and international partners globally. 🌟 If you’re impact-driven, thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, and want to help grow one of the world’s leading startup ecosystems, we’d love to hear from you. 👉 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gx-zsTux #BerkeleySkyDeck #SkyDeck #Hiring #BusinessDevelopment #StartupJobs #TechCareers #VentureCapital #GlobalPartnerships #HigherEducationJobs Sibyl Chen Ben Fong Caroline Winnett

Hot off the press: the latest Berkeley SkyDeck newsletter is live! 💼 We’re hiring! SkyDeck is looking for a Business Development Manager to help shape global partnerships & support the next generation of founders. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gp-KSGcR 🪳 Cockroaches, not unicorns — Chon Tang (Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Managing Partner) shares why resilient, customer-driven AI startups are built to survive market cycles. 🎤 Join our Batch 21 IPP Pitch Showcase - see 12 standout startups from Japan pitch across biotech, AI, semiconductors, & more. 🤖 Mayfield AI Garage returns for year two at Berkeley! Applications are now open for student-led founders building the future of AI. 🌏 Startup wins — SkyDeck Startups raise over $16M! 🗞️ Get all this and more: https://lnkd.in/g3wWE9nm #BerkeleySkyDeck #SkyDeck #StartupShowcase #TechCommunity #BusinessDevelopmentJob

🤖 UC Berkeley is expanding pathways for AI entrepreneurship - on campus and beyond. Got an AI idea you want to explore without dropping out or raising VC? ✨ Berkeley SkyDeck, UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, and Mayfield are bringing back the Mayfield AI Garage for year two. 👩🎓 The program is open to UC Berkeley students and recent alumni (graduated after 2022) - so you can build early AI ideas without stepping away from school. Selected teams receive: 💰 $25K in non-dilutive funding per founder (up to $50K per team) 🧠 Mentorship and resources to develop AI ideas responsibly 🚀 Admission to SkyDeck’s highly competitive Pad-13 incubator ⚡ Access to NVIDIA Inception Program for Startups ⚙️ Up to $350K in Microsoft Azure compute credits, legal support, and more 🎉Join our on-campus launch event on February 19 (RSVP required & subject to approval): https://luma.com/MAIG2026 👉 Apply today! https://lnkd.in/ggnD59VU #UCBerkeley #SkyDeck #AIStudents #StudentFounders #AIEntrepreneurship #StartupIncubator #Startups Navin Chaddha, Jennifer Chayes, Rebecca Ricksen, Darren Cooke, Caroline Winnett, Sibyl Chen, Chon Tang, Brian Bordley, NVIDIA for Startups, Microsoft for Startups, University of California, Berkeley

💡From SkyDeck to $3.1M. Liam Boogar-Azoulay, cofounder of Waypoint AI, left a corporate leadership role to build something new - and raised a $3.1M pre-seed round just months after SkyDeck’s Demo Day. 🚀 SkyDeck founders pitch to 850+ Silicon Valley investors at Demo Day - and momentum follows. 📅 Apply by February 13, 11:59pm PT (no UC affiliation required): https://lnkd.in/fwmihM5 ℹ️ Watch our info session: https://lnkd.in/gi8zgnbd #Founders #Startups #SkyDeck #BerkeleySkyDeck #DemoDay #StartupSuccess #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #UCBerkeley #SkyDeckApply #Accelerator Steve Boogar, Tomáš Polívka, John Hughes, Nathan Trueblood, Monica Bajaj

🇯🇵 SkyDeck was proud to host our first therapeutics-focused bootcamp in Tokyo, in partnership with iCONM in collaboration with BioLabs and the Kawasaki City Government. 🦈 Over two fast-paced days in January, we welcomed an outstanding group of Japanese founders working at the forefront of biotech and therapeutics - covering company building, commercialization, pitching, and fundraising. The bootcamp wrapped with a Shark Tank–style session that delivered candid feedback and sparked real conversations. 👏  Huge thanks to SkyDeck advisors Chris McClain, Stuart Hwang, and Wesley Jackson for their leadership. And deep appreciation to the iCONM team - especially Hiroshi Atsumi, Miho K., and Takatsugu Okai - for their incredible hospitality and true partnership.   🌏  What stood out most? The people - united by a shared commitment to supporting founders and bridging the SkyDeck community and Japan’s growing life sciences ecosystem. ✨  More to come from Japan! #BerkeleySkyDeck #SkyDeck #Biotech #Therapeutics #LifeSciences #StartupEcosystem #Japan #GlobalInnovation #BiotechStartups #Innovation #DeepTech #GlobalFounders Kelly Lindberg, Ekin Günaysu, Sibyl Chen, Ben Fong

✈️ Big dreams deserve a strong launchpad. At SkyDeck, founders turn bold ideas into breakthrough startups with intensive programming designed to scale and achieve long-term success. 🌍 Open to founders from any university or country - UC affiliation not required! 📅 Apply by February 13, 11:59pm PT: https://lnkd.in/fwmihM5 ℹ️ Have questions? Watch our info session: https://lnkd.in/gi8zgnbd #Founders #Entrepreneurs #UCBerkeley #Accelerator #SkyDeck #TechInnovation #SkyDeckApply Tigran Petrosyan, Jason Liang, Vahan Petrosyan

🌟 The 1st Annual Longevity Innovation Forum is coming to San Diego on March 11-12! 🚀 Founded by SkyDeck alum Christin Glorioso, MD PHD (NeuroAge Therapeutics), Longevity Global is building a hub for entrepreneurs, scientists, investors, and strategists to turn longevity from aspiration into industry. 🤝 Over two days, attendees will connect, collaborate, and discover emerging Southern California startups shaping the future of healthy aging. 🎤 Speakers include: Steve Horvath, PhD (Altos Labs) Eric Verdin, MD (Buck Institute for Research on Aging) Pinchas "Hassy" Cohen, MD (USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology) Tom Zuber, JD, MPP (Tom Zuber) Heather Koshinsky (SkyDeck Bio+Health Track Chair) Salah Mahmoudi, PhD (ReneuBio Inc, SkyDeck alum)  Christopher Shen (Aleutian Therapeutics, SkyDeck alum) Amir R Kiani, PhD Kiani (Genexgen, SkyDeck Batch 22)    …& more! 💡 Leaders ready to make an impact in longevity - this is your forum! 🔗 Register or apply to sponsor: https://lnkd.in/g7qKU9Ad #LongevityInnovation #HealthyAging #Biotech #HealthTech #LifeSciences #StartupEcosystem #Founders #VentureCapital #Innovation #SkyDeck #BerkeleySkyDeck #UCBerkeley

🎉 Congrats to SkyDeck alum Allos on raising $5M in seed funding, led by Oxford Science Enterprises, with support from Habico Invest, Family Office and Berkeley SkyDeck! 🧠 Allos is using glass-box causal AI to tackle one of pharma’s toughest problems: improving complex generics and specialty medicines that work clinically but are difficult for patients to use long term. 💊 Their approach makes these medicines easier to take, safer, and more commercially viable. 👏 This funding will fuel growth across formulation development and data science. SkyDeck is excited to see the team continue expanding access to better medicines. 🔗 Learn more at https://lnkd.in/gT3Ycvjr #SkyDeck #BerkeleySkyDeck #BioTech #CausalAI #DrugDevelopment #Startups #StartupFunding Aditya Varna Iyer, Isaac Z. To, Ivano Lodato, PhD, Xue Snow G., Laura Hix Glickman, PhD, Scott Jablonski