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An introduction to startup culture at UC Berkeley Armaan Mumtaz/File Access to entrepreneurship culture is one of the most unique aspects of being a UC Berkeley student. Given our expansive alumni network of founders and CEOs, as well as our proximity to many Bay Area tech headquarters, UC Berkeley is the best school to be at if you want to build a successful startup. Having lived in the heart of Silicon Valley my entire life, I’ve always known that I wanted to start my own startup. UC Berkeley’s reputation for its students having founded more companies than any other university in the wo...

Berkeley SkyDeck Presents Batch 11 Startups at Virtual Demo Day on April 7 Representing Eight Countries and a Wide Range of Industries, Startups Will Present Their Innovative Solutions to Accredited Investors BERKELEY, CA / ACCESSWIRE / April 7, 2021 / Berkeley SkyDeck, UC Berkeley's startup accelerator, will host its Batch 11 Virtual Demo Day on April 7, featuring 17 innovative global startups specializing in a wide range of industries including AI, enterprise software, robotics, health, bioscience, green technology and consumer solutions. The Demo Day event will provide all the participatin...

Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day We take a closer look at six of the companies in the accelerator's latest cohort With 17 startups participating, Berkeley SkyDeck’s Demo Day isn’t the largest cohort we’ve seen by any stretch. The collection of companies is, however, defined by a wide range of focuses, from pioneering diabetes treatments to retrofitting autonomous trucking, curated by the SkyDeck’s small team and a number of advisors. Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. Applica...

Information Venture Partners is a Canadian firm that invests exclusively in B2B FinTech Venture capital used to be a cottage industry, with very few investing in tomorrow's products and services. Oh, how times have changed! While there are more startups than ever, there's also more money chasing them. In this series, we look at the new (or relatively new) VCs in the early stages: seed and Series A. But just who are these funds and venture capitalists that run them? What kinds of investments do they like making, and how do they see themselves in the VC landscape? We're highlighting ke...

Krisp nearly triples fundraise with $9M expansion after blockbuster 2020 Krisp, a startup that uses machine learning to remove background noise from audio in real time, has raised $9M as an extension of its $5M A round announced last summer. The extra money followed big traction in 2020 for the Armenian company, which grew its customers and revenue by more than an order of magnitude. TechCrunch first covered Krisp when it was just emerging from UC Berkeley’s Skydeck accelerator, and co-founder Davit Baghdasaryan was relatively freshly out of his previous role at Twilio. The company’s pitc...