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🎓 That's a wrap on this semester’s Berkeley SkyDeck’s x SCET Intro to Startups DeCal - our student-run startup course! 🚀 This unique experience for UC Berkeley students is a hands-on intro to entrepreneurship, open to anyone regardless of major or background. Over 14 weeks, students came together with one shared goal: learning how to turn a bold idea into a real company. The result? ✅ 43 students building from scratch ✅ 11 teams pitching at DeCal’s Demo Day ✅ 9 founder and investor guest speakers who shared real-world insight ranging from customer discovery and market research to pitching and fundraising. A huge congratulations to our DeCal Demo Day winners: 🥇 1st Place (tie): InsightLab Rudransh Singh, Keira Tan, Mira Pande, August Wang 🥇 1st Place (tie): Syft AI Krishna Nagarajan, Ranai Popat, Araav Nayak, Hiresh Poosarla 🥈 Runner-Up: AuraFlow Geena Zoubarev, Neha Sakuja, Julia Chen, Vedatman Duhoon To every student who asked hard questions, built something from scratch, and pitched — your startup journey has officially begun. What comes next is yours to define. 🙌Thank you to our incredible guest speakers and the Berkeley SkyDeck & SCET community for making this possible. #BerkeleySkydeck #SCET #Entrepreneurship #Startups #DemoDay #UCBerkeley #DeCal TAG: Ekin Günaysu, Celine Chen, Prajwala Maharjan, Joo Ae Chu, UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET) 📸 Photos: Vicky Liu