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    Berkeley SkyDeck

    Berkeley, California, United StatesFounded 2012
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    Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berkeley's startup accelerator and incubator, operated as a joint venture between the Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering. The Berkeley SkyDeck Fund invests $200K into each cohort startup and can participate in later-stage rounds for Berkeley-founded companies.

    Their most common stage is seed (58% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $8.7M (across 34 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    35

    Fund Size

    $60M

    Top Stage

    Seed

    Last 12 Mo

    2

    Team

    RR

    Rosana R.

    Managing Partner, GWP Impact

    KL

    Kelly Lindberg

    Innovation Partner Program Manager

    KN

    Kira Noodleman

    Partner

    LE

    Lisa Edgar

    Partner Emeritus

    SR

    Simon Ru

    2x Founder, Venture Partner

    CW

    Caroline Winnett

    Executive Director

    GL

    Gregory La Blanc

    Faculty Director, Berkeley Fintech Institute

    KS

    Kara Sammet

    Founder & Principal

    PO

    Pat O’Doherty

    Vice President Emerging Business

    AO

    Alec Opdyke

    Business Development Manager

    AY

    Allen Yang

    Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

    AD

    Anca Dragan

    Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    40 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    AAllosSeed$5MJan 2026
    PPlinoSeed—Sep 2025
    Waypoint logoWaypointPre-Seed—Jun 2025
    Ochy logoOchyPre-Seed—Feb 2025
    Ochy logoOchyPre-Seed—Jan 2025
    DDoradoSeed$3MJun 2024
    Loft logoLoftSeries A$24MApr 2024
    EnKrypt logoEnKryptSeed—Feb 2024
    Enkrypt AI logoEnkrypt AIUnknown$2.4MJan 2024
    Datalogz logoDatalogzSeed$5MDec 2023
    Intento logoIntentoSeries A$8MOct 2023
    Prophecy logoProphecySeries A$25MJan 2023
    WWing AssistantUnknown$500KJan 2023
    Experify logoExperifySeed$4MApr 2022
    Prophecy logoProphecySeries A$25MJan 2022
    Clearpol logoClearpolSeed$400KJan 2022
    Prophecy logoProphecySeries A$25MJan 2022
    Empowerly logoEmpowerlySeed$10MJan 2022
    WWing AssistantSeed$2.1MDec 2021
    Intone logoIntoneSeed$1.7MJan 2021
    Intento logoIntentoUnknown$3MJul 2020
    Humm logoHummSeed$2.6MDec 2019
    EyeLevel.AI logoEyeLevel.AISeed$2MJan 2019
    T-Robotics logoT-RoboticsSeed$5.4M—
    Oso Semiconductor logoOso SemiconductorSeed$5.2M—
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    Top Co-Investors

    Plug and Play Tech Center4 shared
    Emergent Ventures3 shared
    SignalFire3 shared
    Insight Partners3 shared
    Scrum Ventures3 shared
    Foothill Ventures3 shared
    Courtyard Ventures3 shared
    Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Bio + Health2 shared
    Fusion Fund2 shared
    BoldCap2 shared
    Engine Ventures2 shared
    Entrada Ventures2 shared
    Globis Capital Partners2 shared
    private angel investors2 shared
    UTEC2 shared
    JIC Venture Growth Investments2 shared
    Y Combinator2 shared
    Boost VC2 shared
    The House Fund2 shared
    Swift Ventures2 shared

    Last updated: 7 October 2026