Entrepreneurship
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…
Meet Minjoo Sur, the Entrepreneur Helping People Stay Motivated
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…
8 Takeaways from UC Berkeley’s Largest Startup Summer Program
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…
Meet the Minds Behind SimpleCell
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…
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…
From Pharmacist to Innovator: Rashmi Varma’s Journey to Bridging Health Gaps
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…
Not Just LLMs: How Generative AI Will Be Used in the Enterprise
“Someday” is Today To understand generative AI’s potential in the enterprise, it helps to read Isaac Asimov. Yes, science fiction from way back in the 1940s and 1950s. For example, Asimov was the one who predicted Big Data. In his Foundation Trilogy, a certain mathematics professor by the name of Hari Seldon develops a large-scale…
Join us for Collider Cup XII – UC Berkeley’s Premier Technology Entrepreneurship Showcase
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley is proud to announce Collider Cup XII, Berkeley’s premier technology entrepreneurship showcase. Collider Cup is a startup pitch event featuring innovative venture projects from students in SCET Spring 2023 courses. The event will feature venture pitches from student entrepreneurs leveraging the…
Startup Semester Profile: Joan Buch Prades & Decoditive
Joan Buch Prades is currently spending a semester at UC Berkeley through SCET’s Startup Semester program. Through the program, Joan will take SCET courses, explore emerging technologies, network with like-minded innovators and Berkeley students, and work on his startup: Decoditive. Decoditive is a tool for marketers that uses an AI that is trained with neuroscience…
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…