Startup Semester

The Vambe team smiles for a company photo outside against a green backdrop in indirect shade

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. Fast forward to today, and he is currently the co-founderCamhi earned a degree in Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Coming from a family…

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David Law and Susan Giesecke at CACIE in Beijing

SCET Director Highlights Value of International Education and Entrepreneurial Skills at CACIE in Beijing

David Law, SCET’s Director of Global Academic Programs, attended the China Annual Conference for International Education (CACIE) in Beijing, China. David was hosted by the Study Abroad Foundation (SAF) and served as a panelist at SAF’s “Forum on Enhancing Institutional Disciplinary Strengths Through International Student Mobility”. David introduced SCET and the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship…

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SCET x Exeter (Ion Sucala and Susan L. Giesecke)

SCET Forms New Partnership with the University of Exeter

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at the University of California, Berkeley is excited to announce our new partnership with the University of Exeter to continue honing and developing the entrepreneurial and innovation talents of students around the world. The SCET / Exeter partnership will further develop SCET’s Innovation Collider, an innovation environment…

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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…

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Changes to Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Global Programs in response to COVID-19

Every year, we look forward to welcoming international students to UC Berkeley for our spring and fall programs at the Sutardja Center. Empowering innovators to positively change the world is what drives us forward. However, given the growing concerns around COVID-19, and following campus guidelines, we’ve made the decision to postpone the in-person component of the…

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SCET celebrates the outgoing Spring 2020 Startup Semester cohort

We were proud to honor our outgoing cohort of Startup Semester students at their graduation ceremony, held on Friday, May 8, 2020. Our Spring 2020 cohort features 18 students, hailing from 5 different countries. The event highlighted short speeches by three participants — Anushka Purohit, Anupam Tiwari and Anant Mishra — who reflected on their classes, Startup…

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Startup Semester students share highlights from their experiences at the Sutardja Center

As part of the Startup Semester study abroad program, students from around the world are learning about about entrepreneurship and technology while growing their global networks. We heard from Anushka, Johannes, Jaideep, and Anant about their favorite aspects of the Startup Semester program. Keep an eye out for other upcoming student features! Anushka Purohit, Hong…

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An inside look LBNL’s Molecular Foundry with Startup Semester students

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From SCET Leadership class to TEDx stage

A former Startup Semester student was recently featured as a TEDx speaker for Insper, São Paulo, Brazil. Igor Marinelli, who was a student in Dr. Pamela Park’s Tech Firm Leadership (INDENG 171) course last fall, took the skills he learnt in class to the stage. Unlike in other classes, Tech Firm Leadership students were tasked…

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Global Program students share their experiences with entrepreneurship at Berkeley

The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology hosted students from around the world for the fall 2019 Startup Semester program. We spoke with Laurent Pan and Marine Derouault from the LeBridge Fellows program and Kingston Tan from Sunway University about their backgrounds in entrepreneurship and their experiences at UC Berkeley. Tell us a bit about…

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