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2025 UC Berkeley IE SCET Immersion Week 4/9

IE University Students Dive into Berkeley’s Innovation Ecosystem During Immersion Week 2025

Earlier this month, a cohort of Data Science and Business graduate students from IE Universityin Spain, arrived at UC Berkeley for a transformative week of innovation, hands-on learning, andSilicon Valley exploration as part of the 2025 Immersion Week. Hosted by UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology, the five-dayprogram combined academic sessions, company visits,…

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From Lab to Launch: Mar Navarro’s Biotech Journey at SCET

Mar Navarro, originally a student from Spain, joined the SCET community after participating in the Startup Semester at Berkeley in 2023. Since then, she has immersed herself in the Berkeley ecosystem, embracing every opportunity that comes her way. She has taken numerous SCET classes, including Startup Catalyst, Technology Entrepreneurship, Connected Life Challenge Lab, Richard Newton’s…

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SCET alumni land $2M with recommerce software startup Sotira

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Collider Cup Winners Lead Berkeley Delegation at TechCrunch Disrupt

Between October 28 and 30, representatives of the SCET community attended TechCrunch Disrupt, a three-day conference held annually in San Francisco. The event featured keynotes from industry experts, roundtable discussions, and pitch sessions, offering attendees an unparalleled opportunity to learn about the most disruptive technologies and discover emerging startups. At TechCrunch Disrupt, four Berkeley startups—Optigenix,…

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

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Andrew Laffoon, CEO at Mixbook

Mixbook Founder Andrew Laffoon; Entrepreneurial Success and the Growth Mindset

The journey to entrepreneurial success can be a long and winding road, but for Andrew Laffoon, it started right here at UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. As a recipient of the Center’s Certificate of Engineering Management and Innovation program, Laffoon went on to co-found and serve as CEO of Mixbook, a leading…

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