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Baptiste Vanpoperinghe and Amaury Grange first joined the SCET community in the fall of 2024 after participating in the Entrepreneurship, Technology & Startup Management Program. Fast forward to today, they are the founders of Pilea, a platform using AI to detect and fix subtle UX and design flaws on e-commerce Read more
From experimenting with high-protein recipes in his kitchen back in high school to signing with major nutrition companies this year, Adi Banerjee (Neuroscience and Nutrition ’28) has always been pushing for progress with his protein bar startup Posana. Earlier this year, Posana was verified by UC Berkeley as meeting their Read more
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 an MBA in Data Analytics and Business at the University of Economics, Prague, and working Read more
This fall, SCET will offer a new Challenge Lab, ENGIN 183C-001: Regenerative Ventures: Build Innovations for a Better Future, taught by Rana Kanaan, founder of Makai Labs and seasoned technology product leader with over two decades of experience scaling innovations from zero to billion-dollar businesses. This course aims to present Read more
For the first time this fall, SCET will be offering a new course: ENGIN 183/283-006: Advanced Product Management: Strategy, Scale, and AI. The course will be taught by Laura Teclemariam, who is a product management executive and currently works as the senior director of product management at LinkedIn. As AI Read more
With its revolutionary platform that equips first responders with comprehensive real-time insights during disaster scenarios, it’s no wonder that RescueSight was voted the “Most Innovative Technology” at Collider Cup XV. Co-founders and best friends Alper Gel (‘26 Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences / Bioengineering) and Charlie McDonald (‘26 Applied Math Read more
“Exactly 632,940 minutes have passed since I welcomed you with the words, ‘You are at the start.’ Now it is time to say, ‘You are at the finish line.’” Academic director Ota Novotný’s fittingly data-driven speech honored a new batch of graduates from the MBA program in Data & Analytics Read more
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Aravind Srinivas is the CEO and co-founder of Perplexity, a rapidly-growing startup redefining how we consume and synthesize information through AI. As a Berkeley PhD, surrounded by world-class labs and collaborators, he began shaping the vision that would become Perplexity: a smarter, more intuitive way to interact with information. When Read more