Entrepreneurship

The participants from the European Innovation Academy in Porto pose for a group photo taken form a bird's-eye view. They stand closely together outdoors on a sunny day, smiling and facing the camera.

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…

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Arvind and Sehej smile in front of International House at Berkeley on graduation day wearing their stoles.

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…

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Marc Tarpenning lectures in front of a classroom during a session of the UC Berkeley Engineering Leadership Professional Programs on Leadership

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…

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Rashmi Varma poses in front of Doe Memorial Library wearing a gold graduation stole.

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…

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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…

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Collider Cup Announcement

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…

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Joan Buch Prades

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…

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Amrita sharing Sotira and her founder journey with the French global student group in 2022 at SCET

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…

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Bailey Farren, Noah Wu

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…

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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…

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