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Berkeley SkyDeck Fund
Venture capital · Berkeley, CA, United States · North America
Berkeley SkyDeck Fund is the investment arm associated with Berkeley SkyDeck, an academic accelerator formed as a partnership between UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, College of Engineering, and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. The fund supports startups coming out of the accelerator and donates 50% of its carried interest to UC Berkeley.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense
In its own wordsacademic foundersuniversity spinoutsacceleratorearly stageglobal
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Or find every investor that fitsBerkeley SkyDeck Fund lists 10 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (33%), Space & Defense (17%) and Enterprise Software (11%). 100% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside 3VC, A&E Investments and AIR Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Berkeley SkyDeck Fund's whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 10. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 0 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 23th | 10 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 62th | 33% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 19th | 1 country |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 33% | 18% |
| Space & Defense | 17% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 11% | 8% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 11% | 15% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| Fintech | 6% | 12% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 6% | 1% |
| Consumer | 6% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| 3VC | 1 |
| A&E Investments | 1 |
| AIR Capital | 1 |
| Angel Invest | 1 |
| Bee Partners | 1 |
| Benhamou Global Ventures | 1 |
| Bow Capital | 1 |
| CM Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers990%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company110%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Berkeley SkyDeck Fund head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
10 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambi Robotics develops and provides AI-powered robotic tools for tasks such as stacking and sorting parcels | Robotics & HardwareAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| DeepScribe provides artificial intelligence medical scribe services for specialty care, particularly in oncology and other specialties. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Kepler Communications provides a resilient optical infrastructure for real-time data delivery, on-orbit compute, and hosted payload missions | Space & DefenseAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Krisp provides voice AI solutions for meetings, call centers, and developers, including noise cancellation, AI note taking, and accent conversion. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Portfolio page | |||
| Prophecy provides AI data preparation and analysis tools for businesses | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| SiFive designs and develops RISC-V based products and solutions for various applications, including datacenter, edge computing, and embedded systems. | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Skyloom provides high-capacity optical data transport services for space-based telecommunications | Space & DefenseCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Tatum provides blockchain API and RPC infrastructure | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| ThinkCyte develops and provides a cell sorting platform that combines traditional fluorescence flow cytometry with high-dimensional morphological profiling and AI | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- skydeck.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 19 Feb 2025
- Companies checked
- 10
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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