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 a venture capital firm 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
- Venture capital
- 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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 24 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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