Berkeley SkyDeck

🚀 Berkeley SkyDeck's Batch 21 Demo Day and Demo Night are officially a wrap - what a day it was.

⚡ Investors and industry leaders filled UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall to see 17 SkyDeck Accelerator founders pitch technologies spanning enterprise AI, robotics, digital health, logistics, climate tech, and next-generation biotech. The energy in the room was electric.

A few things that stood out:
🧠 Small teams, enormous ambition, and real products. AI is compressing what used to take years into months.
🌍 The pipeline is global. With 13 countries represented, SkyDeck’s role as a gateway for world-class global founders continues to grow.
🤝 The ecosystem showed up. Demo Night brought together City of Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii, investors, some of the most well known startups on the edge of robotics and AI inference, Berkeley PhDs and postdocs, Berkeley alumni, corporate partners and many more!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who made this possible:
🥁 Performances by the Cal Band and Cal Raijin Taiko.
🙏 Our incredible UC Berkeley student volunteers.
🙌 Our generous sponsors: SCB 10X, Synopsys, Honda Xcelerator Ventures, Canon, AWS, FinStrat Management, Nebius, Microsoft for Startups, Bell Labs Venture Studio, Google Cloud, Rippling, and TotalEnergies.

🥇 Berkeley remains the #1 university for producing venture-backed founders (PitchBook) and SkyDeck startups have now raised more than $2.7B in aggregate. Batch 21 is next in line. We can't wait to watch these founders scale.

👉 Investors — meet the startups: https://skydeck.berkeley.edu/batch21/

👉 Read more in San Francisco Business Times: https://bizj.us/1qppru

📸 Photos: Nic Bruno

🚀 The latest Berkeley SkyDeck Newsletter is live!

This edition is all about momentum:

🔥 Final call for Batch 21 Demo Day (April 2) — With alumni having raised $2.7B+, this next cohort is ready to join as the next generation of market leaders.
🤖 HumanX AI Conference (April 6–9) — Join top AI leaders in SF exploring real-world deployment, enterprise adoption, and the future of intelligent systems with a special SkyDeck partner rate.
🌴 TechCon SoCal (May 21–23) — SkyDeck GM Sibyl Chen taking the stage to share insights from the front lines of innovation.
🎓 Virtual Summer Intern Fair (April 10) — Connecting 800+ Berkeley students with startups shaping the future.
💡 The Tech Bro’s Women in STEM Hackathon (April 4) — Empowering builders to create technology that improves women’s lives.

👉 Read the full edition here: https://mailchi.mp/berkeley/skydecknewsletter-mar1826
👉 Register for our intern fair here: https://forms.gle/4Vc8rM8T6vfi4TFx8