This spring, instructor Sepher Khosravi and course manager Mohamed Bukhari led Gen-AI Bootcamp, an online course offered through Berkeley Startup Studio. In just four weeks, students learned how to build and launch their own web app from scratch using AI. We connected with Mohammed Bukhari, to learn more about his journey and accomplishments beyond the…| UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
“I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson Can We Chat? You may have seen the recent, and much-publicized, working paper titled “Large Language Models, Small Labor Effects” (Humlum & Vestergaard 2025), gauging…| UC Berkeley Professional Education
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 websites, helping brands boost conversions… The post Inside Pilea: A Conversation with Founders Baptiste Vanpoperinghe and Amaury Grange appeared first on UC Berkeley Sutardja Center.| UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
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 Food and Beverage Choices Policy… The post Posana founder Aditya Banerjee is making protein exciting for students appeared first on UC Berkeley Sutardja Center.| UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
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 a masters’ in Data and Analytics at the Prague University of Economics and Business and working for local data governance… The post Samuel Nagy: Revitalizing a career with Startup Semester experience appeared first on UC Berkeley Sutardja Center.| UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
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 students with an opportunity to… The post Building A Better Society through Regenerative Ventures: A Conversation with Instructor Rana Kanaan appeared first on U...| UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
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 innovation and platform disruption continue… The post Product Leadership in the AI Era: A Conversation with Instructor Laura Teclemariam appeared first on UC Berkeley Sutardja Center.| UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
The Building Bridges course encourages students to think like entrepreneurs and "see that technology can be used for good.”| Berkeley News
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 Aravind first arrived at UC…| UC Berkeley Sutardja Center
The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (SCET) at UC Berkeley proudly hosted Collider Cup XVI on May 8, 2025. Hosted by student emcees Benecia Jude Jose (’25 Public Health and Data Science) and Anika Kesavalu (’26 Data Science and Business Administration), the biannual event brought together Berkeley’s brightest innovators, presenting startup solutions across AI,…| UC Berkeley Sutardja Center