Startup Semester
Meet Debasish Behera, the Founder Making Global Payment more Accessible
Debasish Behera, originally a student from India, joined the SCET community after participating in the Startup Semester at Berkeley in the spring of 2025. Since then, he has immersed himself in the Berkeley and SCET community, and he has recently sold his startup, Celeriz, to AVFX Capital. He is currently working on building a decentralized…
Meet Finn Metz, the Founder Tackling AI Safety
Finn Metz first joined the SCET community after participating in the Startup Semester at Berkeley program at UC Berkeley in the fall of 2024. Originally from Germany, he studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich, and studied at Copenhagen Business School before attending UC Berkeley. Finn has dedicated himself to developing and investing…
Samuel Nagy: Revitalizing a career with Startup Semester experience
With years of business education and practical startup experience under his belt, project manager Samuel Nagy was uncertain about what the Startup Semester at UC Berkeley might offer him. Last fall, he was successfully pursuing a masters’ in Data and Analytics at the Prague University of Economics and Business and working for local data governance…
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,…
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…
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. Camhi earned a degree in Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, he knew early on that he wanted…
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…
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…
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…
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…