Entrepreneurship
Student Founder Profile: Amrita Bhasin Launches Venture Backed Software Startup Sotira
Amrita Bhasin is a senior studying sociology (‘23) at UC Berkeley and also the recipient of SCET’s Certificate in Entrepreneurship in Technology. Amrita has been working hard on building and scaling her SaaS startup, Sotira, which earned 2nd place at the SCET-Silicon Alliance Pitch Contest in 2021. Since then, Amrita has finished building out Sotira’s…
Former Collider Cup Team Awarded Forbes 30 Under 30
SCET’s proud to share the accomplishments of Bailey Farren, and her partner Noah Wu CoFounders of Perimeter, as they were just listed on Forbes 30 under 30 – Enterprise Technology! Participating in the 4th ever Collider Cup, Perimeter was a standout venture of Spring 2019. Bailey and Noah have so far raised $1.5 million from…
Register now for Collider Cup XI
Join us to see pitches from the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology’s top venture projects from the Fall 2022 semester. UC Berkeley’s brightest students will showcase their latest innovations for solving some of the world’s most challenging problems. Get ready for the Collider Cup, UC Berkeley’s premier technology entrepreneurship showcase, hosted by the Sutardja…
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…
8 Lessons Learned for Tech Firm Leadership with Vint Cerf, Co-Creator of the Internet
In the Spring 2022 semester, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology’s Technology Firm Leadership course taught by Carrie Requist had the distinct honor to host one of the fathers of the Internet, Dr. Vint Cerf for a guest lecture and interactive Q&A with the students. Along with Bob Kahn, Dr. Cerf co-created the Internet’s…
“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…
SCET partners with KAUST to host ‘Entrepreneurship 4 All’ workshops in Saudi Arabia
SCET has partnered with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Entrepreneurship Center to establish the ‘Entrepreneurship 4 All’ program in Saudi Arabia. The program, also known as ‘E4A’, is designed to provide the KAUST community – graduate students, employees, researchers, and postdocs – with a broad introduction to entrepreneurship with a particular emphasis on…
Plaksha University TLP: Challenge Lab Final Pitch Event
Tech Leaders Program: Challenge Lab Final Pitch Event Global Academic Programs Director, David Law, proudly represented SCET at the Plaksha University Tech Leaders Program Challenge Lab Final Pitch Event. Plaksha University is India’s largest collective philanthropy effort to build a new model of engineering education and research. Backed by 70+ academic and business leaders from…
String Theory and The Five Dimensions of Data Ethics
Business’ “Theory of Everything”? Physicists have long sought a Theory of Everything, a single theoretical framework that explains and ties together the physical world at every scale, from the sub-atomic to the cosmic. One of the leading theoretical frameworks advanced toward this end has been string theory. In the business world, might we find a…
Fall 2021 Collider Cup Profile: Alina Su, CEO & Founder, NovaXS Biotech Corp
In September 2020, Alina Su (Bioengineering ’22) and her team, CTO Alex Zou, a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, Jonathan Xing, Booth Business School MBA, and Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Irina Conboy, founded NovaXS Biotech Corp. The team also won the Fall 2021 Collider Cup hosted by the Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship & Technology at the University of…