Newsletter – March 18, 2026

It was a full house at SkyDeck last week, as big ideas took center stage at SkyDeck’s Batch 21 Pad-13 Pitch Competition, where the top 10 Pad-13 startups (selected from…

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Newsletter – March 4, 2026

It was a full house at SkyDeck last week, as big ideas took center stage at SkyDeck’s Batch 21 Pad-13 Pitch Competition, where the top 10 Pad-13 startups (selected from…

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Newsletter – February 19, 2026

Last Friday, Berkeley SkyDeck hosted the Berkeley Civic Innovation Challenge (CIC) Grand Prize Pitch Day, a joint initiative by UC Berkeley Big Ideas and the City of Berkeley. The room…

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Newsletter – February 4, 2026

What does it take to build an AI company that endures beyond market cycles? In his latest blog, “Cockroaches, Not Unicorns,” Berkeley SkyDeck Fund Managing Partner, Chon Tang, argues that…

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Newsletter – January 22, 2026

Berkeley SkyDeck and Synopsys brought founders, investors, and industry leaders together at the Silicon Horizon summit in Mountain View last week to explore what will shape the next decade of chips –…

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Newsletter – January 14, 2026

Berkeley SkyDeck has officially opened applications for Batch 22, and we’re calling on our extended community of tech leaders, operators, and accelerator alumni to help spread the word – and to invite promising…

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Newsletter – December 3, 2025

UC Berkeley hosted the statewide launch of Quantum California on November 7. This new private-public initiative announced by Governor Gavin Newsom aims to unite university researchers, national labs, industry leaders, and policymakers to turn…

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Newsletter – November 13, 2025

It was a big week at Berkeley SkyDeck, with momentum building across the board as we kicked off Batch 21, hosted major thought leadership, and deepened ties across the Berkeley…

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Newsletter – October 17, 2025

This week, SkyDeck was thrilled to celebrate the launch of Startup Campus: The Future of Innovation at Berkeley, a new book charting Berkeley’s rise as a global leader in entrepreneurship.…

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Newsletter – October 1, 2025

Berkeley SkyDeck’s Batch 20 Demo Day brought together 19 exceptional startups last week. Selected from a record-breaking 3,000 applications, each startup received a $200K investment from the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund…

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