Berkeley Skydeck
includes Berkeley Skydeck Fund
8 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 13, 2026 by Caroline Winnett · said 59 times in 4 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Kristian Marquez (31), Caroline Winnett (22), Taylor Cordoba (4), Gabrielle Marquez (1), Danielle DiAgostaro (1)
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2026 58 mentions in 3 episodes 19 per episode
Everything said about Berkeley Skydeck, oldest first
Jan 13, 2026 neutral
Jan 13, 2026 neutral
Jan 13, 2026 positive
Jan 13, 2026 neutral
Berkeley SkyDeck is now open to any startup founder globally
“When I joined, Skydeck was open to students or faculty or alums of Berkeley, UCSF, The Lawrence Berkeley Lab, it was fairly limited, and over time we expanded it to now the accelerator is open to anybody. You can be a graduate of anything.”
Jan 13, 2026 positive
Berkeley SkyDeck utilizes around 900 pro bono advisors for its startups
“So we have about 900 people Mostly Berkeley alums, but not all who have signed an agreement to be advisors for our startups pro bono, no charge. We don't pay them and they don't charge the startups anything when the startups are in the program.”
Jan 13, 2026 positive
Berkeley Skydeck applications grew from 55 to 3,800 by Batch 21
“When we first started the accelerator batches, and this was before the fund got going. So this was, you know, batch one back in 2000 and 15. We had 55 applications, and we thought that was pretty good. Applications for batch 21, 3800.”
Aug 20, 2026 negative