Incubators

• The House

  The House is a startup institute built for Berkeley, and home to Berkeley’s founders.

• CITRIS Foundry

  CITRIS Foundry is the University of California accelerator for founders building deep technology companies. Provides seed funding, access to campus labs, and mentorship during our 12-month program.

• Free Ventures

  Semesterly student-run accelerator program for both undergraduate and graduate students. Participants receive 2 upper-division CS units, need-based funding, industry-specific mentorship, weekly workshops, and workspace.

• Catalyst@Berkeley

  Student-run health tech incubator that helps interdisciplinary teams of students develop technical skills and navigate through the design process to the development of a viable prototype and business plan to bring it to market.

• SkyDeck

  Incubator program for UC Berkeley startups. Provides workspace, unique programming, speaker series, and mentorship. A collaboration between the College of Engineering, the Haas School of Business, and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. Applications in March and September annually.

• Venture Lab

  Incubator program and resource center for undergraduate and graduate students. Provides workspace, personalized mentoring, and a community of student-entrepreneurs. Run by the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.

• Cal Hacks Fellowship

  Twelve Week Spring Semester incubator that takes hackathon projects (from Cal Hacks) and helps turn them into non-profits, startups, and open source projects.

Student Groups

• Machine Learning at Berkeley (ML@B)

  Student group for everything machine learning at Cal. Members organize events on campus, work with companies on applying ML to industry, and publish papers for moonshot ideas.

• CET Student Association

  Student group organizing speaker series and events relating to entrepreneurship. Part of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.

• Venture Strategy Solutions

  Student consulting group focusing on high growth startups in the Bay Area.

• Computer Science Undergraduate Association

  Computer Science club open to all students interested in computer science. Holds a variety of both technical and social events throughout the year including hackathons, info sessions, social parties, and gaming nights.

• Berkeley IEEE

  Electrical engineering student group. Holds technical workshops and infosessions throughout the year.

• Berkeley Innovation

  Undergraduate human-centered design group. Members come from a wide range of disciplines, but share a love of design thinking and innovation. Provides hands-on experience with the entire design process, from conducting user research to building and marketing prototypes. Holds designathons.

• Innovative Design

  Student club for graphic designers and photographers. Conducts a DeCal and holds workshops covering a broad range of design topics.

• Mobile Developers @ Berkeley (MDB)

  Student app development group that works on all mobile development projects (iOS/Android) and have worked on dozens of past tech consulting projects.

• Blueprint

  Team of UC Berkeley students that develops pro bono software for non-profits and promotes technology for social good.

• CodeBase

  Software development club that is building a community of passionate and driven engineers that work together on various industry projects (consulting, development, etc).

Entrepreneurship Associations

• Berkeley Entrepreneurs Association

  Entreprenurship association providing a variety of resources to members. Writes a weekly newsletter featuring job postings. Hosts both formal and informal events.

• Berkeley Postdoctoral Entrepreneurs Program

  Entrepreneurship association for the postdoctoral and graduate communities. Provides tools, mentoring, and a platform for science-business communication to encourage research innovations to move into the marketplace.

• CalFounders

  Entrepreneurship association for UC Berkeley alumni. Holds members-only meetings which serve as an informal advisory board for each entrepreneurs' independent companies.