Sienna Lam
As an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, Shuo Chen triple majored in Business Administration, Economics, and Rhetoric, minored in Public Policy, and earned the SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology. Today, she is a General Partner at IOVC, investing in early-stage enterprise and SaaS startups. Additionally, she is an instructor at UC Berkeley and Stanford…
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Between October 28 and 30, representatives of the SCET community attended TechCrunch Disrupt, a three-day conference held annually in San Francisco. The event featured keynotes from industry experts, roundtable discussions, and pitch sessions, offering attendees an unparalleled opportunity to learn about the most disruptive technologies and discover emerging startups. At TechCrunch Disrupt, four Berkeley startups—Optigenix,…
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Join us at Collider Cup XV, where innovative Berkeley minds converge for the university’s premier technology showcase and pitch competition. Event Details Register now! Collider Cup XV is Berkeley SCET’s pitch competition and a showcase of Berkeley’s top student venture teams from the Fall 2024 semester. This event is the culmination of a semester’s hard…
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Nicolás Camhi joined the SCET community in 2018 after earning a scholarship from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile to participate in the Startup Semester program at UC Berkeley SCET. Camhi earned a degree in Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, he knew early on that he wanted…
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Minjoo Sur (B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ‘18), co-founder and CEO of Huddle, joined the UC Berkeley SCET community after transferring to UC Berkeley in the fall of 2016. Since then, she has worked as a software engineer at Salesforce. Over the past year, she has furthered her mission to help people stay motivated…
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This summer, I participated in the Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program in Europe, a month-long study abroad experience held in Segovia, Spain, and Porto, Portugal. The program was divided into two parts. The first week, known as Berkeley Leadership Week (ENGIN 183B: Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship), was an experiential, gamified experience held at IE University…
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SimpleCell, the brainchild of Sehej Bindra and Arvind Vivekanadan, was developed in the Spring 2024 SCET course titled Transforming Brain Health with Neurotech. By the end of May, the team earned second place at the Collider Cup and was recently accepted into Forum Ventures. SimpleCell is a platform integrating large language models to streamline bioinformatics…
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For over a decade, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at UC Berkeley has hosted the Engineering Leadership Professional Program (ELPP), which has helped more than 1,000 technical professionals hone their leadership skills and bring an innovative spirit to their firms. On February 28, Marc Tarpenning (B.A. Computer Science ‘85), co-founder of Tesla…
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Rashmi Varma joined Berkeley’s entrepreneurial community after taking a SCET class in her first year as a master’s student at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Since then, she has continued to share her passion for healthcare access in vulnerable communities and advocated for interdisciplinary collaboration to solve these complex global issues. Over the past…
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Thomas Laporte joined the SCET community in the spring of 2022 after participating in the Le Bridge Startup Fellows Program, hosted by Berkeley in collaboration with Emlyon Business School, where Laporte received his master’s degree in management. Here, Laporte met his future co-founders and set the foundation for HyLight, a company building Hydrogen-powered airship drones…
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