California Innovation Fund

“Our leaders talk about questioning the status quo all the time.” Former Dean of University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and soon to be the university’s next Chancellor, Rich Lyons knows that the Berkeley ecosystem is like no other. Take a look at what he had to say about reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape in a talk with Cal Fund’s Vanessa Kahkesh. #ucberkeley #calinnovationfund #entrepreneurship #business #startups #silliconvalley #sanfrancisco #berkeleyhaas #berkeley #haas

It's official! Our MPCs are beating out the best in the business! We've known for decades that combination therapies are more effective at treating tumors, just like PrEP is a combination for preventing HIV. Catena's MPCs bring the benefits of combination therapies to the targeted delivery of an ADC. As you can see, the results speak for themselves!

"Understand what problems people have, fall in love with people, then make something people want" Cal Fund's Vanessa Kahkesh recently spoke with fintech founder Moses Lo on what drove his interest in e-commerce, financial infrastructures, and the problems that would lay the foundation for his decision to build Xendit. Take a look at part of the interview below. Xendit, Moses Lo, Vanessa Kahkesh, Kurt Beyer, Mehek Kandru, California Innovation Fund

🚀 Berkeley is indeed #1, #1, #1, #1 and #1 for venture-backed startups founded by undergrad alums! (The other #1s are number of founders, female founders, female-founded startups, and money raised by female founders, if you were wondering.) ☘️ Thanks for the nice write-up, The Daily Californian, and the shout-out to a few of our top programs, like Berkeley SkyDeck and Berkeley Changemaker! cc: Laura Hassner, Caroline Winnett, Sibyl Chen Follow UC Berkeley Innovation & Entrepreneurship for more like this. #YouSeeBerkeley #entrepreneurship

If building cool experiences at a fast paced role is your vibe, then you're the frontend/mobile engineers we're looking for Join our team of ex Doordash, Duolingo, Amazon builders in SF and cop tons of coffee with Siddhant Satapathy as you change the future of education!

The Berkeley CEO Program helps senior leaders to lead in a changing workplace. You’ll be guided by experienced University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business faculty Jennifer Chatman, Kurt Beyer, and Juliana Schroeder on how to fulfill your potential as a senior leader. This hybrid, year-long course is mostly online but includes 5 days on our Berkeley campus where you can further build your peer network of other leaders. Sign up now: https://lnkd.in/gVUYnB-F (Thanks Brandon Johnson for the great photos!!)

Calling on students, startups, and software entrepreneurs! 📢 Exceptional is hosting a virtual demo day next month and we want to hear your pitch! 🚀 Sector focus: b2b software 🏆 We have an exceptional judging panel to be announced in the coming weeks 👀 YC backed founders and brilliant investors lined up! 💻 Interested in participating? We are evaluating pitches now! Email a brief overview of your pitch, team and an intro deck (no more than 10 pages in length) to melissa@exceptionalcap.com Limited capacity for pitch participants so please reach out soon if you are interested. If you'd like to attend as an observer, you can register here: https://lu.ma/eapxxbb3

✨ Day 5: DTU Executive MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Tour 2024 - FINAL day and Wrap-Up at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business ! We capped off a fantastic week of exploring Silicon Valley’s “secret sauce” with final sessions at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, gaining insights into culture, corporate innovation, and leadership timing. These sessions provided valuable frameworks for driving sustainable success and innovation:   🎉 Highlights from our final day: "The Berkeley Changemaker Program" with Laura Hassner, on how leaders at Berkeley managed to shape a winning culture by making it strategically relevant, strong, and adaptive. This session underscored the power of purposeful culture-building in shaping resilient organizations. “Corporate Innovation” with David Charron, who introduced the Location & Fit Framework for building a corporate innovation ecosystem. We explored the four critical quadrants - Internal Development, New Business, Investment, and Acquisition - for aligning innovation strategies within a mature corporation to compare and contrast our learnings on How to Build Successful Starts Ups in Silicon Valley (and beyond). “Innovation Leadership” with Kurt Beyer delved into two crucial factors for entrepreneurial success: Timing and Execution. This session highlighted how, compared to Idea, Business Model, and even Key Investors, the precision of timing and flawless execution are the most significant contributors to achieving entrepreneurial success. 🥇 A personal thank you to Kurt Beyer for collaborating with me on continuous developing the program this year, along with immense gratitude to all the contributing faculty members at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and the exceptional Program Management team Elizabeth Lowry, MBA, Iris Ramirez, and Vanessa - for ensuring smooth operations throughout this unique and inspiring journey. 🙌 A huge thank to our own Executive MBA team Carolyn Rutherford, Stephane Guerraz, Ida Stub Johansson and Wioletta Polakowska for securing smooth operations behind the scene, and top execution during the week long study tour. 😍 Finally, a huge thank you to DTU Executive Education EMBA Cohort 27 and the joining DTU - Technical University of Denmark alumni for making this week an unforgettable, personal experience - we wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Your engagement, camaraderie, and personal contributions made this immersion truly exceptional. Thank you all! Stig #DTUExecutiveMBA #SiliconValleyImmersion #Leadership #Innovation #CorporateInnovation #BerkeleyHaas #ChangemakerProgram #InnovationLeadership

Thrilled to announce that SixMap has won the Top InfoSec Innovator 2024 award for "Most Innovative Automated Cyber Defense" at CyberDefenseCon! Honored to be recognized by Cyber Defense Magazine for our groundbreaking tech and its impact on defending enterprises from today’s relentless cyber threats. Catch up with Jason Kaplan and Andrew Glinka in person if you are at the event. https://lnkd.in/eVFZ5t4J #CyberSecurity #Innovation #SixMap #AutomatedDefense

Just in time for Halloween -- Resemble AI has published their latest research on Multimodal Deepfake Detection. Great work by Zhe Niu, Aditya TB, and Piotr Kawa! Read more 👉 https://lnkd.in/gPjxvcPB