The University of California, Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) is one of the first institutions to offer university courses on blockchain technology. Specifically, SCET’s Blockchain Lab facilitates collaboration between new ventures, industry scholars, and academics to evaluate, validate, and execute innovative blockchain projects. “Academics feel a lot Read more…
Ricardo San Martin speaks during the “From Field to Fork” discussion at the Good Food Conference on September 6. Intrigued by the idea of a burger patty that looks like meat, smells like meat, and tastes like meat, but is actually plant-based? So are hundreds of specialists in the Read more…
From left to right: Gigi Wang, Rhonda Schrader, Bill Reichert, Pascale Diaine, Paolo Lacche, and Sharon Zezima. In a new addition to the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship, or BMoE, bootcamp this year, a panel of executives from Silicon Valley participated in a discussion about achieving gender equality in the workplace Read more…
Alexander Fred-Ojala received one of ten Alexa Innovation Fellowships. We are pleased to announce that the Data Lab at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology has been awarded the 2018 – 2019 Alexa Innovation Fellowship. Alexander Fred-Ojala, UC Berkeley data science instructor and research director of the Data Lab Read more…
At the end of our Fall 2018 BMoE Bootcamp, four ventures were selected to give a 5-minute pitch to a panel of industry judges. Dental care startup UJU, farming optimization company HexaRoot, product and warranty simplifier Warrify, and scheduling optimizer MultiMeet all presented on Friday, vying to be the winner. Read more…
Claire Vo, VP of Product at Optimizely, speaks with a student after her talk at SCET’s BMoE Bootcamp. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If you do succeed, try, try again. That’s the basic premise of Optimizely, a company that focuses almost exclusively on experimentation. Optimizely’s Vice Read more…
UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, or SCET, signed a partnership agreement with Malaysian institute Sunway University on Monday to help develop Sunway University’s entrepreneurship programs. Signed at the University of California, Berkeley by SCET founding director Ikhlaq Sidhu, Sunway Education Group’s senior executive director Elizabeth Lee and Read more…
On Friday, the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology hosted a pitch event for 5 participants with the Acceleration Program of Tokyo for Women Entrepreneurs (APT). Each participant was given 5 minutes to pitch their startup to a panel of four judges — all business veterans in Silicon Valley — Read more…
When I was two years old, my mother, baby brother, and I flew to America from Taiwan to join my father who was already there working to obtain his graduate degrees. Two more kids came in rapid succession before my father completed his Ph.D. course. It was fun for the Read more…
Early in the spring of 2018, Evan Rambo, a legal studies major and a safety for the Cal football team, got wind of a new course that promised a unique experience for students on the Cal campus. The more he learned about the subject, the more intrigued he became. Read more…