Entrepreneurship
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…
Highlights from the Innovation X Roundtable – Future of Work: Digital Transformation, Emerging Technologies, and Automation
Digital transformation is the process of using digital technologies to create new or change existing business processes in accommodation to rapidly evolving business and market requirements. COVID-19 is certainly speeding up the process of digital transformation. In 2020, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), worldwide spending on digital transformation reached $1.3 trillion. By 2025, it…
From fighting cancer to founding and investing startups, life advice from Surbhi Sarna, Founder and CEO of nVision Medical, Group Partner at Y Combinator
In a special talk given at the SCET’s Spring 2022 A. Richard Newton Lecture Series, Cal alumni Surbhi Sarna tells the miraculous story of her difficult journey to founding nVision Medical and gives valuable advice to young entrepreneurs seeking investments as a current Group Partner at Y Combinator. On February 1, 2022, Surbhi Sarna shared…
Next trends of the gaming industry with Kevin Chou, founder of SuperLayer, Rally, Forte, and Kabam
In a special talk given at the SCET’s Fall 2021 Newton Lecture Series, distinguished founders Kevin Chou and Mike Li tell the audience their stories of founding multiple startups and give advice to young entrepreneurs. “Go figure out what’s weird and wacky about yourself. Find your weird curiosity and try to think about how to…
SCET Forms Partnership with Chulalongkorn University’s School of Integrated Innovation
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley is excited to announce a new partnership with Chulalongkorn University’s School of Integrated Innovation (SCII) to collaborate with UC Berkeley students on entrepreneurial projects and learn the educational approaches and practices pioneered at SCET through the center’s Startup Semester program. “It…
UC Berkeley Ranks #2 In The World for Entrepreneurship
UC Berkeley has once again ranked #2 in the world for undergraduate entrepreneurship, maintaining its position for producing the second-highest number of undergraduate founders who go on to obtain venture funding. After Berkeley (1365), MIT (1125), Harvard (1100), University of Pennsylvania (1,021), and Cornell (888) round up the top 6 universities in the world by…
A Global Statistician’s Love for Lily Seeds Turns Entrepreneurial!
For Mallika Chawla, entrepreneurship was not something that came by nature. She was a trained economist and statistician obtaining her master’s degree from the University of Cambridge, which she followed up by working in a high-profiled role at Goldman Sachs in Singapore. However, her tryst with entrepreneurship began when she moved to Silicon Valley, the…
Student startup Prodbnb revolutionizes experiential marketing and hospitality
Would you buy a $2,000 mattress without trying it? How certain would you be of your purchase if you only got 15 minutes with it in a showroom? This is the exact hurdle that many product marketers face today: convincing a consumer to make a financial investment into buying a higher priced, higher quality product. …