Archive for April 2016

On Tuesday, April 26th in Sibley Auditorium, three teams presented their start-up ideas at the Delta Prize Finals. The purpose of the Delta Prize is to accelerate the growth of early-stage ventures that have a minimum viable product and some measurable validation with the singular goal of preparing new ventures to be investor-ready. The evening started off with Eugene…

Jeremy Fiance, a 24 year-old Cal alum, has just announced the House Fund, a $6M venture capital fund dedicated to pre-seed and seed investments for Berkeley students, faculty, and alumni startups. Fiance (Cal ‘14) dedicated most of his undergraduate career to solving what he believes is a glaring problem with the Berkeley startup ecosystem: there…

While introducing her documentary to guests and students in Sibley Auditorium, Robin Hauser Reynolds tells the audience how humbled she is by the response it has caused. Since the documentary’s debut a year ago at the Tribeca Film Festival, CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, has been screened in 16 countries, The White House, Google, Auto Trader UK, and luckily for…

The SCET has previously covered news of how banks had shown increased collaboration with fin-tech startups in 2015 and 2016; the underlying psychology there was that it is easier for large banks to acquire startups that are successfully able to create innovative financial technology, rather than invest time, money and effort in R&D themselves. This…

The Sutardja Center is pleased to announce that Team Outliers (Rebecca Barter and Shamindra Shrotriya) have won the Geisinger Health Collider. Team Outliers competed against four other teams: three teams from Goethe University in Germany and one from Stanford.  Rebecca is a PhD student in the Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley (advised by Professor…

  The latest round of the Newton Lecture Series hosted Vik Singh and Razmig Hovaghimian, two former UC Berkeley students that have enjoyed success at large corporations, but also gone on to create revolutionary startups that are disrupting the industries that they operate in. The lecture was moderated by Elaine Lin Hering, a conflict management…

The SCET has been a close follower of the progress of AI over the last few months – the industry has been buzzing with popularity in 2016, especially since Deep Mind’s victory over the world’s best Go player in a highly publicized contest. AI’s fast progress into evolving to the human mind has explored one…

As a follow on program of the IEEE Tech Industry Summit June 6-7, the Sutardja Center will hosting the IEEE Workshop for Technology and Business Challenges in IoT (Internet of Things) Deployment.  The program is chaired by Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu Chief Scientist & Founding Director, Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology with Co-chair is Michael Condry, President-Elect…

CalDay has always been the perfect opportunity for potential new undergraduate students to get to know one of the most prestigious universities on the planet. This past Saturday, high school seniors, their families, and the already Cal-bound community participated in a series of events, exhibitions and lecture series that aimed to depict what is it…