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Brian Bordley (left, Partner, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund) moderates the Fireside Chat with Arvind Gupta (right, Partner, Mayfield Fund) at Berkeley SkyDeck.
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Berkeley SkyDeck was excited to host an intimate Fireside Chat with Arvind Gupta (Partner, Mayfield Fund), for SkyDeck’s Batch 15 founders. Topics ranged from what the world will look like in 2040, to how deep tech founders can fundraise in this environment, and the mindset academic life sciences founders must adopt to become entrepreneurs. Gupta advised founders that “context is the most important” aspect when speaking to VCs. If a founder can’t contextualize why their product matters and how it will solve a keystone problem, then they’re unlikely to be funded. He encouraged academic entrepreneurs to embrace “simple explanations of complex ideas” when pitching to VCs.
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SkyDeck@ visits UC Davis Health
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Abhi Ghavalkar (CEO, Milvia Medical, Berkeley SkyDeck Batch 15 Cohort) presents at UC Davis Health.
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Berkeley SkyDeck’s Bio Track startups road tripped to UC Davis Health last week, as part of the new SkyDeck@ initiative. While in Sacramento, they pitched ideas, received feedback, and discussed collaborations with UC Davis Health’s hospital leadership, clinicians, administrators, researchers, professors, and students. If your company would like to take part in this networking and brainstorming initiative by hosting SkyDeck’s startups, then contact Riddhi Khanna <riddhi@skydeck.vc> with the subject line “SkyDeck@ YOUR COMPANY NAME.”
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Berkeley SkyDeck alums selected for Forbes’ 30 Under 30!
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Raghavender Sahdev (left, Cofounder and CEO, NuPort Robotics), Corten Singer (center, Cofounder, Augmental Tech), and Tomás Vega (right, Cofounder, Augmental Tech)
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Congrats to the Berkeley SkyDeck alums who were chosen for Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list! Tomás Vega and Corten Singer, Cal grads and cofounders of Augmental Tech (Batch 12, Cohort), have raised over $1 million to design intuitive interfaces for hands-free computer control using the mouth. Read their Forbes profile here. Raghavender Sahdev, cofounder and CEO of NuPort Robotics (Batch 11, Cohort), has raised $2.1 million and will adapt NuPort’s autonomous trucking technology for use on electric buses in India. Read his Forbes profile here.
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Volo
Volo (Batch 15, Cohort) is a fully automated B2B SaaS to maintain and create Cloud Landing Zones, in minutes and at a fraction of the cost. It has launched on Microsoft Marketplace and AppSource.
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Clearpol
Clearpol (Batch 15, Cohort) provides cloud-based software to make compliance with government regulations easier for healthcare facilities. They’ve launched their Policies.ai software, which you can sign up here! Read the full announcement here.
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Squishy Robotics
Squishy Robotics (Batch 8, Cohort), a spin-off of UC Berkeley research with NASA, has raised $1.1 million via contracts and grants to focus on product development of their air-deployed sensor robots, and has contracted with the U.S. Office of Naval Research to expand their use of Squishy’s rapidly drone-deployable robots for explosive ordnance disposal applications.
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Flourish FI
Flourish FI (Batch 9, Pad-13) offers a low-code SaaS model to banks and fintechs so they can provide better customer engagement and loyalty, while helping customers increase their financial knowledge. They’ve raised $2.3 million in new seed funding. Read the announcement here!
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Leadsales
Leadsales (Batch 14, Cohort), a growth platform for C-Commerce SMB's in Latin America, allowing their customers to organize and prioritize their leads pipeline from social media and communication channels, in order to close deals faster. They’ve raised $400k in a pre-seed round. Read more here!
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