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UC Berkeley's official startup accelerator. We help Cal entrepreneurs and transformational startups.

08/20/2026

🚀 The latest Berkeley SkyDeck newsletter is hot off the press!

🤝 Advisor Deep Dive: Nathan Trueblood shares the behind-the-scenes story of Enkrypt AI’s path to acquisition by Anaconda.
🔬 Ecosystem Powerhouses: SkyDeck welcomes 40 new advisors to SkyDeck, including biotech pioneer Dr. Janice Chen (Mammoth Biosciences) and Dr. Edwin Liu (former President of ITRI)!
💼 Lead the Future of Innovation: UC Berkeley is recruiting Executive Directors to lead LSEC.
🧠 Brain Health at SF Tech Week: Join alum NeuroAge Therapeutics at the Brain Optimization Summit on Oct 11.
⚡ Startup Wins: $6M raised by Light Links, a USPTO patent for Code Blue AI, and major partner milestones from Trener Robotics, Fastyr, and Vellex Computing!

🔗 Find the latest newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/skydecknewsletter-082026

08/05/2026

Fresh off the press: The latest Berkeley SkyDeck Newsletter is officially live! What's happening in our ecosystem?

🚀 SkyDeck’s Batch 23 applications are open! Calling all global founders building revolutionary tech to apply by August 21st.

🤖 Shift to outcomes: Founding Partner Chon Tang shares in Silicon Valley Business Journal why some AI startups are moving away from traditional seat licenses to sell finished work.

🎓 Cal students: Our Fall 2026 Intern Fair registration is live! Current Cal students can connect with 70+ global startups on August 28th.

🧬 SkyDeck alum NeuroAge Therapeutics (Batch 17, Accelerator) launched a 6-month longevity challenge and upcoming SF expo, Younger 2027!

🤝 Enterprise milestones — Modelwise partnered with Siemens Digital Industries Software to accelerate safety analysis, KwikKart joined forces with SymphonyAI, and more!

👉 Read the full newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/skydecknewsletter-080526

07/20/2026

🚀 $210K in funding. 975+ elite advisors. No UC affiliation required. Applications for Berkeley SkyDeck’s Accelerator are officially open!

💎 Trener Robotics scaled through SkyDeck - and your startup could be next.

🌍 Open to any founder, from any country.

What else do accepted startups get?
🎤 Pitch to 900+ Silicon Valley investors at Demo Day
🤝 600K+ Berkeley alumni network
💸 $1.3M+ in-kind legal, financial, and tech resources

ℹ️ Join our info session series to learn more - kicking off July 23: https://luma.com/BSDappinfo

⏰ Apply by August 21, 11:59pm PT: https://skydeck.berkeley.edu/apply/

07/15/2026

The latest Berkeley SkyDeck newsletter is live! What's happening in our ecosystem?

🚀 Accredited investors - secure your spot at SkyDeck’s Batch 22 Demo Day - Sept. 30 in Berkeley.
🏆 UC Berkeley is #1 - again, clinching the #1 public university spot in the U.S. and #7 globally in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings.
⚽ World Cup tech: Five national teams (including Croatia and Canada) used SkyDeck alum SportsDynamics' new analytics platform to drive tournament strategy.
🤝 SkyDeck has partnered with tech giant NEC X.
💼 Advisor Itzik Gilboa’s company, minds.ai, has been acquired by Applied Materials.

👉 Full details and more here: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/skydecknewsletter-071526

07/01/2026

🚀 The latest Berkeley SkyDeck newsletter is live! Here's what's inside:

🌏 SkyDeck is scaling up in Japan & welcomed 2 new hires: Cole Harry as Japan Program Manager and Alec Opdyke as Business Development Manager.

💰 Netris (Batch 9 Accelerator alum) raised a $15M Series A to fast-track AI data center launches.

🏆 TheraCat, Grand Prize winner of the 2026 UC Berkeley AI Hackathon, will join SkyDeck's Batch 23 Pad-13 incubator program.

🎤 SkyDeck advisors Victor Fang and Madhavi Rajan were published in Forbes on AI deskilling and the future of private cloud.

🔗Check out all this and more in the full newsletter: tinyurl.com/3jj2upv3

06/23/2026

🌟 Berkeley SkyDeck couldn't be more proud to congratulate Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli on being shortlisted for the UC Regents Innovation Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement — one of the highest honors in the University of California system.

⚡ Alberto co-founded two $100 billion electronic design automation (EDA) giants Synopsys and Cadence — two companies whose technology underlies virtually every semiconductor chip designed today. From consumer electronics to AI infrastructure, the modern world runs on systems built with tools he helped create.

🎓 He has been a professor in the UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) department since 1976, is co-chair of SkyDeck's Chip Track, and remains one of the most energizing forces in our innovation ecosystem to this day.

💬 As SkyDeck Executive Director Caroline Winnett put it best: "He has spent decades pushing the boundaries of what is technically possible, translating that research into industry-defining companies, and then turning around and pouring that knowledge back into the next generation of innovators. His contributions to Berkeley's entrepreneurship culture are as significant as his contributions to the semiconductor industry itself."

👏 Few people have shaped both an entire industry and a culture of entrepreneurship in equal measure. Alberto, it is a privilege to learn from you, work alongside you, and cheer you on. This recognition is so well deserved.

🎥 Watch our interview with Alberto to hear his story firsthand (including the time his tools saved the Intel 386 chip).

06/17/2026

⚡️ What's happening at SkyDeck? Here are the highlights you need to know:

🧬 Bio+Health Track dinner expands with its highest turnout yet.
🛠️ SkyDeck welcomes 2026 Mayfield AI Garage winners SKUNet.ai and Working Memory to our Pad-13 incubator.
🚀 SkyDeck alum El Dorado raises a $9M Series A for its stablecoin-powered neobank providing dollar rails across 12 countries.
🌱 HyLight (Batch 14) is heading to VivaTech this week after inspecting thousands of kilometers of critical infrastructure using their hydrogen-powered airships.
💡 Advisor Ashu Goel’s company, WinWire (an AI-powered solutions builder on Azure), was acquired by NTT DATA, bringing agentic AI expertise to over 50 countries.

👉 Check out the full stories + more startup and advisor wins in our latest newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/skydecknewsletter-061726

05/27/2026

🚀 The latest Berkeley SkyDeck newsletter is live! UC Berkeley was just named the #1 university in the world for venture-backed startups over the past decade. Take a look inside for this and more:

🎤 NYT best-selling author, Eric Ries joined us for a standing-room-only fireside chat, sharing frameworks from his new book, “Incorruptible,” on building corporate trust and designing against structural failure.

🤝 We've partnered with Microsoft for Startups! SkyDeck founders now gain direct access to frontier AI capabilities and more to scale.

💡 SIG Day Mentorship: Our startups teamed up with industry experts for high-density, targeted knowledge sharing.

🌐 From Gradescope co-founder Arjun Singh winning the 2026 Young Alumni Award, to Guitar Hero co-creator and SkyDeck advisor Charles Huang receiving the 2026 Founders Award, our ecosystem is moving faster than ever, and we are incredibly proud to highlight our thriving community.

🔗 Read the full newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/skydecknewsletter-52726

05/14/2026

🚀 Berkeley SkyDeck’s latest newsletter is out and innovation is booming! From student pitches to landmark deep-tech partnerships, here’s what’s happening in the ecosystem:

🎤 The Berkeley SkyDeck Fund’s Brian Bordley hit the stage at Synopsys Converge to discuss the future of silicon and scaling semiconductor ventures.

🏆 Congrats to the standout student startups that not only won the Collider Cup XVIII, but officially secured their spots in our Pad-13 incubator program.

💼 Career Opportunities:
• Berkeley students - join us tomorrow, May 15, for our virtual internship recruiting event.
• Global talent - the new SkyDeck job board is live!

🌐 Startup & Advisor Highlights:
• Alkemio raised $2M to scale modular refining technology for rare earth supply chains.
• Nexilico published groundbreaking research in the “Journal of Applied Microbiology” on deep learning for microbiome engineering.
• Advisor Xingjian Zhang architected a landmark partnership between Apex.AI and BlackBerry QNX, while Vivienne Ming released her new book, “Robot-Proof.”

🔗 Check out the full newsletter here for all the details and links: https://tinyurl.com/mruhwhsx

04/08/2026

🚀 Just launched — the Berkeley SkyDeck Newsletter is live!

🎤 Batch 21 Demo Day is a wrap! 17 founders. 13 countries. One electric night at Zellerbach Hall.

🏆Congrats to SkyDeck board member, Darren Cooke, who was just named UC Berkeley's permanent Chief Innovation & Entrepreneurship Officer.

🎓 SkyDeck’s Virtual Summer Intern Fair is back this Friday, April 10. Bears, you won’t want to miss it!

NEW in this edition: SkyDeck Advisor & Mentor News! SkyDeck is proud to spotlight the incredible people behind the ecosystem:
🧬Julia Schaletzky's second FDA approval
📚Jon Metzler's new book with Keio University
🤖Anisha Manvatkar's “Hello AI Transformation”
📖Regina Sih-Meynier's debut memoir

Plus fundraising news and product launches from SkyDeck alumni that you won’t want to miss!

👉 Read it here: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/skydecknewsletter-april8-2026

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