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Meet Debasish Behera, the Founder Making Global Payment more Accessible
Debasish Behera, originally a student from India, joined the SCET community after participating in the Startup Semester at Berkeley in the spring of 2025. Since then, he has immersed himself in the Berkeley and SCET community, and he has recently sold his startup, Celeriz, to AVFX Capital. He is currently working on building a decentralized…
Meet Finn Metz, the Founder Tackling AI Safety
Finn Metz first joined the SCET community after participating in the Startup Semester at Berkeley program at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2024. Originally from Germany, he studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich, and studied at Copenhagen Business School before attending UC Berkeley. Finn has dedicated himself to developing and investing…
How to Be a Futurist: Students Deploy AI Tools, Produce Podcasts and Write Book in SCET Course
While formally listed as ENGIN183/283, this course is affectionately known by a more descriptive title: “To Be a Futurist: How to Win (and Lose), AI and Healthcare Startups.” The class comprises approximately 70 students from all walks of life, majors, cultures, and academic levels—including undergraduate, graduate, PhD, and exchange students. Together, students from science, liberal…
Berkeley SCET presents at TechCrunch 2025
From October 27-29, Berkeley SCET students, staff, and alumni partnered with TechCrunch Disrupt, a three-day conference in San Francisco that unites venture capitalists, startup teams, and tech industry leaders. The event featured Startup Battlefield competitions, which provide emerging startups with pitching opportunities and exposure, as well as expert panels with speakers from companies like OpenAI,…
IE University Students Dive into Berkeley’s Innovation Ecosystem During Immersion Week 2025
Earlier this month, a cohort of Data Science and Business graduate students from IE Universityin Spain, arrived at UC Berkeley for a transformative week of innovation, hands-on learning, andSilicon Valley exploration as part of the 2025 Immersion Week. Hosted by UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, the five-dayprogram combined academic sessions, company visits,…
Giving Back with Venture Capitalist Dylan Chiu
As an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, Dylan Chiu studied Public Health and Political Economics and earned the SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology. Today, he serves as a Principal at the Berkeley Frontier Fund, where he invests in the next generation of technology startups within the Berkeley network and gives back to UC Berkeley…
Inside Vambe: A Conversation with Founder Nicolás Camhi
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…
Innovation and Engineering Leadership with Marc Tarpenning, Co-Founder, Tesla Inc.
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…
Mixbook Founder Andrew Laffoon; Entrepreneurial Success and the Growth Mindset
The journey to entrepreneurial success can be a long and winding road, but for Andrew Laffoon, it started right here at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. As a recipient of the Center’s Certificate of Engineering Management and Innovation program, Laffoon went on to co-found and serve as CEO of Mixbook, a leading…
“Help interesting people to do interesting things” – Fireside Chat with Chris Yeh, co-author of Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
“I help interesting people to do interesting things.” Chris Yeh Chris Yeh, along with Reid Hoffman, Linkedin co-founder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Masters of Scale podcast, is the author of the global best-selling book Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies. With a foreword by Bill Gates, Blitzscaling reveals the…