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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

“Where are you from?”  If you ask a Berkeley student, half the time, the response will most likely be “Norcal.” or “Socal.” A nearby suburb. A freeway exit you pass by all the time.  But then there are people whose response to that question might be Prague, Bangkok, Mohali, Riyadh, Read more

MoFarm, a standout startup born at Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET), is heading to the University of Notre Dame on March 27, 2026. They will represent the Golden Bears in the prestigious ACC InVenture Challenge, competing against top undergraduate teams from 14 ACC schools for $30,000 in prizes. Read more

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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 Read more

“Can you pass the tofu press?”  Tofu press? Isn’t this a class?  Yes, it is. But this is a class taught by Minh Tsai.  Growing up in Vietnam eating tofu with his grandfather inspired Minh to create Hodo Foods, whose plant-based, organic tofu are now found everywhere from Chipotle to Read more

Ace Por joined the SCET community as a member of the inaugural cohort of the Summer Venture Lab, a program designed for students to accelerate their early-stage technology startups. For the past two years, Ace has been building Palate, an AI-powered app designed to bring family and friends together through Read more

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