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🚀 Berkeley SkyDeck's Batch 21 Demo Day and Demo Night are officially a wrap - what a day it was. ⚡ Investors and industry leaders filled UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall to see 17 SkyDeck Accelerator founders pitch technologies spanning enterprise AI, robotics, digital health, logistics, climate tech, and next-generation biotech. The energy in the room was electric. A few things that stood out: 🧠 Small teams, enormous ambition, and real products. AI is compressing what used to take years into months. 🌍 The pipeline is global. With 13 countries represented, SkyDeck’s role as a gateway for world-class global founders continues to grow. 🤝 The ecosystem showed up. Demo Night brought together City of Berkeley Mayor Adena Ishii, investors, some of the most well known startups on the edge of robotics and AI inference, Berkeley PhDs and postdocs, Berkeley alumni, corporate partners and many more! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who made this possible: 🥁 Performances by the Cal Band and Cal Raijin Taiko. 🙏 Our incredible UC Berkeley student volunteers. 🙌 Our generous sponsors: SCB 10X, Synopsys Inc, Honda Xcelerator Ventures, Canon Marketing Japan (https://lnkd.in/gdUs7xzv), Amazon Web Services (AWS), FinStrat Management, Nebius, Microsoft for Startups, Bell Labs Venture Studio, Google Cloud, Rippling, and TotalEnergies. 🥇 Berkeley remains the #1 university for producing venture-backed founders (PitchBook) and SkyDeck startups have now raised more than $2.7B in aggregate. Batch 21 is next in line. We can't wait to watch these founders scale. 👉 Investors - meet the startups: https://lnkd.in/gtcyePGZ 👉 Learn more in San Francisco Business Times: https://bizj.us/1qppru 📸 Photos: Nicholas Bruno #BerkeleySkydeck #SkyDeckDemoDay #SkyDeckDemoNight #VentureCapital #Startups #AI #DeepTech #UCBerkeley Rich Lyons, Darren Cooke, Caroline Winnett, Chon Tang, Sibyl Chen, Brian Bordley, Sanjay Velappan, Grace Clendenin, Ben Fong, Kelly Lindberg, Ekin Günaysu, Erika W., Gordon Peng, Bhavika Patel Yash Kejariwal, Steven Pinto, Aashish Mittal, Albert Z., Ashmita Kumar, Marina Davtyan, Pedro Milcent, Claudio Rapisarda, Amir R Kiani, PhD, Rod Flores, Behtash Behin-Aein