The annual Collider Cup XVIII served as the distinguished venue for presenting the Anthony DiPrinzio Innovation Champion Award and celebrating the legacy of Anthony DiPrinzio, a 2019 alumnus. The award is supported by the Anthony DiPrinzio Entrepreneurship Endowment, established in 2025 to foster innovation initiatives at Berkeley. This honor recognizes Read more
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at UC Berkeley hosted Collider Cup XVIII on May 8, 2026. Hosted by student emcees Anika Kesavalu (’26 Business Administration and Data Science), Daniella Spero (’26 Political Science and Government) and Nithyashree Prabhu (’27 Data Science & Cognitive Science), the biannual event Read more
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 Read more
Anthony DiPrinzio (B.A. Political Economy ‘19) left an indelible mark on those around him and the Berkeley community at large. Throughout his time at UC Berkeley, Anthony dedicated himself to the Blockchain at Berkeley student organization and the Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET), where his humor and vitality Read more
Leanid Palkhouski, originally from Belarus, transferred to UC Berkeley as a junior. He quickly immersed himself in SCET offerings, and currently serves as the CEO of Wrodium, “a knowledge freshness infrastructure platform for AI-indexed enterprises.” A content engineering platform that optimizes for “knowledge freshness, factual consistency, and machine-readability,” Wrodium was Read more
MOFarm, a student startup paying dairy farmers to capture and sell their methane emissions, made UC Berkeley history on March 27 as the first team to place in the ACC InVenture Prize. The Shark Tank-style pitch competition, hosted by the University of Notre Dame, brings together the brightest innovators from Read more
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“I congratulate you.” “Well done. You’ve found the fifth Golden Ticket. May I introduce myself.” You may recognize this line from Mr. Slugworth, the business rival to Willy Wonka. At Berkeley, SCET invites you to a game. Care to play? Every fall, SCET hosts the SCET Innovation Fellows Challenge where Read more
Could one summer in Portugal change the trajectory of millions of lives? The co-founders of Evardi Energy, who met during the 2025 Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation (GEI) study abroad program, are doing just that with their AI-based startup solving worldwide power outages. Diva Bhartesh Shah (Economics and Cognitive Science ‘26), Read more