Berkeley SkyDeck Fund
skydeck.vc Direct investor
Berkeley SkyDeck Fund is an accelerator fund associated with UC Berkeley, supporting startups through the SkyDeck accelerator program. It invests in early-stage companies, particularly those founded by academics, and donates 50% of carried interest to UC Berkeley.
Berkeley SkyDeck Fund is an accelerator headquartered in Berkeley, United States. It invests directly in companies, at seed, in deep tech, AI, biotech and fintech. $85M under management under management, as it reports.
“We believe academic founders are brilliant, energetic, and a source of innovation that will fundamentally change our lives.”
— Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Accelerator
- Stage
- Seed
- Headquarters
- Berkeley, United States
- Invests in
- Bay Area, global
- Sectors
- deep tech, AI, biotech, fintech, enterprise software, semiconductors, space, healthcare
- Assets under management
- $85M under management
Team, as Berkeley SkyDeck Fund publishes it
- Chon Tang Founding & General Partner
- Brian Bordley Partner
- Sanjay Velappan Principal
- Grace Clendenin Platform Associate
Names and roles exactly as listed on skydeck.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 24 co-investors found.
- Angel Invest 1 shared company: mindsdb.com
- MMC Ventures 1 shared company: mindsdb.com
- TQ Ventures 1 shared company: mindsdb.com
- Walden Catalyst Ventures 1 shared company: mindsdb.com
- Index Ventures 1 shared company: deepscribe.ai
- Stage 2 Capital Advisors 1 shared company: deepscribe.ai
- Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health 1 shared company: deepscribe.ai
- 3VC 1 shared company: tatum.io
- Depo Ventures 1 shared company: tatum.io
- Evolution Equity Partners 1 shared company: tatum.io
and 14 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Berkeley SkyDeck Fund publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://skydeck.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, aum, people
- https://skydeck.vc/portfoliosectors
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Record 2323 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-09-06 · confidence high
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