SkyDeck's next demo day will be filled with startups in a variety of industries including AI, health, robotics, finance, education and social media.
The U.C. Berkeley accelerator will host an in-person demo day on April 4 for this latest cohort, which it calls Batch 15.
Last year, SkyDeck announced that it was doubling the amount it invests in each of its portfolio companies to $200,000.
One of the companies in this batch is Dispatch Goods, which was selected as one of Bay Area Inno's Startups to Watch earlier this year.
Other local startups that have gone through SkyDeck include Lime, Action Face, iDentical, Karuna Labs, Kiwibot, Memora Health and Rubi Laboratories.
The accelerator is run by the Haas School of Business, the College of Engineering and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research. The Berkeley SkyDeck Fund is private entity that manages the venture capital side of the program, and it returns 50% of all carried interest to the school.
Here are all 18 of the startups from around the world that are in SkyDeck's Batch 15:
- Alvva (S.F.)— A financial and legal service to help immigrants to the U.S. apply and pay for immigration applications.
- Avion Health (S.F.) — Developing autonomous drones that can deliver medical supplies in remote, emerging markets.
- Clearpol (Los Angeles) — Developing compliance and risk management software for the healthcare industry.
- Dispatch Goods (S.F.) — Reducing waste by providing food service businesses with a reusable option.
- HDAX Therapeutics (Canada) — Developing therapeutics for neurological diseases.
- Kurier (Berkeley/Mexico) — Simplifying delivery logistics for e-commerce sellers with a single integration.
- Manot (Berkeley/Armenia) — Developing software tools to help identity and correct biases in AI-powered systems.
- Milvia (S.F.) — A healthcare and travel marketplace for people in the U.S. who want to find fertility providers and treatments that are more affordable in other countries.
- NuPort Robotics (Canada) — Developing retrofitting kits for the trucking industry to convert vehicles into autonomous trucks.
- Okomera (Berkeley/France) — Automating precision medicine for tumor biopsy studies.
- Red Arrow Therapeutics (California/Japan) — Using nanotechnology to target drugs more precisely in the body for diseases like cancer.
- Rounded (France) — Bookkeeping for businesses that use cryptocurrency.
- SEMRON (Germany) — Developing chips that can run generative AI software while using minimal power for consumer products like wearables and smartphones.
- SirenOpt (Berkeley) — Sensors and software for optimizing the manufacturing processes of high-performance coatings.
- Skills Tech (Berkeley/Mexico) — Providing data science training for software engineers in Latin America through income-sharing agreements.
- Socialtrait.ai (S.F./Australia) — Using generative AI tools to create digital twins for market research.
- VoiceBeam (S.F./Germany) — A social platform for audio conversations.
- Worqout (Mexico) — A social network and content platform for fitness enthusiasts.
