What does Berkeley SkyDeck invest in?
Berkeley SkyDeck invests most often at Seed and Venture (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Immigrant (1st Or 2nd Generation), Underrepresented Founders and Latinx.

United States · Investor
Last cheque observed Oct 2026; 231 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $23M, Apr 2018Accelerator
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30 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Venture: 60% of its rounds
Sole investor in 41 rounds, median $925K
Our Journey to make SkyDeck the best accelerator for startupsFrom their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first231 appearances
26 rounds
49 rounds
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The investors most often in the same rounds as Berkeley SkyDeck. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies Berkeley SkyDeck put money into.
1 episode naming Berkeley SkyDeck in the title, and 3 more that mention it.

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WithCaroline Winnett
MentionsBerkeley SkyDeck

Ep 265 A Global Perspective of Venture Capital: with George Panagiotakopoulo

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Berkeley SkyDeck invests most often at Seed and Venture (60% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Immigrant (1st Or 2nd Generation), Underrepresented Founders and Latinx.
231 investments on record, 30 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Oct 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Vectorial AI Inc. (Seed, Oct 2026), SirenOpt (Venture, Sept 2026) and Light Links, Inc. (Pre-seed, Aug 2026).
The median round it joins is $2.0M. It says it writes cheques of $210K to $210K.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 231 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in the United States (66%), Germany (5%) and France (5%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 30 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often K Fund (69 rounds together), National Science Foundation (23 rounds together) and Plug and Play (10 rounds together).
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