innovation

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SCET Instructor Highlight: Luke Kowalski

At the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET), we believe that students learn entrepreneurship best through hands-on opportunities and direct engagement with industry leaders. Our approach ensures that students learn practical skills from individuals who have tackled real-world challenges and understand what it takes to innovate in today’s fast-paced industries. Our instructors include a…

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A Conversation with Venture Capitalist Shuo Chen

As an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, Shuo Chen triple majored in Business Administration, Economics, and Rhetoric, minored in Public Policy, and earned the SCET Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Technology. Today, she is a General Partner at IOVC, investing in early-stage enterprise and SaaS startups. Additionally, she is an instructor at UC Berkeley and Stanford…

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Serendipity by Design: How Berkeley Systemically Fosters Entrepreneurial Success

When you visit the public university that created the highest number of venture-funded startups in the world, you expect it will not happen by chance. And yet, uncovering scientifically the hows and whys is as frustrating as ambitious; it’s elusive and somehow feels like magic, despite the tangible evidence. But these aren’t just academic questions…

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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…

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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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Students Develop Innovative Ideas for AI app in SCET AR Startup Product Design Challenge

The SCET Student Innovation Fellows’ AR Startup Product Design Challenge was a resounding success! The final four teams came together at our pitch event at the SCET and presented their thorough, innovative ideas about additions to the Phygtl app to none other than Phygtl CEO Tommaso Di Bartolo and AR Expert Kathy Wang!  – Check out “The Role of Augmented…

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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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Protected: Outside the Box; Kyle Giffin, Co-founder of LatchBio, the Non-Traditional Future of Biocomputing

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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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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…

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