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Accelerate your early stage startup

Accelerate Your Early-Stage Startup – Announcing SCET’s Summer Venture Lab

By Noor Gabr / November 8, 2022 / Comments Off on Accelerate Your Early-Stage Startup – Announcing SCET’s Summer Venture Lab

Are you a student looking to grow your early stage startup? SCET 2023 Summer Venture Lab is the perfect fit for you! This six-week intensive program provides graduate-level students the opportunity to bring their venture projects a step closer to the market. Designed for Berkeley students and international students, Summer Venture Lab is a pre-accelerator…

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SCET Course Coordinators and Readers Wanted!

By Noor Gabr / October 19, 2022 / Comments Off on SCET Course Coordinators and Readers Wanted!

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) is a global innovation hub headquartered at UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering where aspiring entrepreneurs and innovators take deep dives into the world of technology entrepreneurship and embark on the path to develop exciting new ventures.  Now hiring student assistants for Spring 2023 The Center is currently…

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Announcing the Climate Challenge

By Noor Gabr / October 12, 2022 / Comments Off on Announcing the Climate Challenge

Want to have an impact? The SCET is proud to announce The Climate Change Challenge working with Berkeley Changemaker® launching on the 17th of October 2022. Registration is now open for all Berkeley students.  Everyone can make a difference! You don’t need any skills or qualifications to join this year’s Climate Challenge. If you have…

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Neeka and Leila Mashouf, co-founders of Rubi Laboratories

Goodbye Fast Fashion; Neeka and Leila Mashouf’s Plan for Carbon Negative Clothing

By Noor Gabr / October 10, 2022 / Comments Off on Goodbye Fast Fashion; Neeka and Leila Mashouf’s Plan for Carbon Negative Clothing

Is Green the new Black? In SCET’s Fall 2022 A. Richard Newton Lecture Series: A Berkeley Changemaker® Course Berkeley Grad Neeka and her twin sister Leila Mashouf talk about their experience with tackling the war against carbon emissions through fashion as a female-owned startup.  The story of Rubi Laboratories as a force in driving sustainable…

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Bridging the Social Gap – New Research Provides Guidance on How Entrepreneurs can Succeed in Building Relationships with Venture Capitalists in the Age of Physically-Distanced Communication

By Noor Gabr / October 4, 2022 / Comments Off on Bridging the Social Gap – New Research Provides Guidance on How Entrepreneurs can Succeed in Building Relationships with Venture Capitalists in the Age of Physically-Distanced Communication

Venture Capital dynamics might have evolved – significantly – due to COVID-19. Did the physical distancing imposed by the pandemic change the way in which entrepreneurs and VCs now interact? Shomit Ghose, SCET board member and faculty member at UC Berkeley, recently published a paper, together with two faculty members at the University of San…

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