Berkeley M.E.T EFP Program Overview Brochure

EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

ENTREPRENEURIAL FELLOWS PROGRAM (EFP) OVERVIEW

EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

ENTREPRENEURIAL FELLOWS PROGRAM: BOLSTERING STARTUP EXPERIENCES AND ACCELERATING INNOVATION

The Entrepreneurial Fellows Program was envisioned by M.E.T. Advisory Board member, Theodore (Ted) Kuh, who conceived of the idea to get M.E.T. students jump started working directly with founders early in their academic careers. Ted was joined by EFP donors Kamal Duggirala, Mark Edelstone, Jon Goldstein, Tom Hui, and James Lau, who along with Ted have collectively sponsored countless EFP students in this entirely donor funded life-changing program.

In 2023, Jas Khaira came aboard to establish the Khaira EFP Fellows, our first EFP endowment, sponsoring multiple students per year in perpetuity.

We are thrilled that each year ~30 M.E.T. students are able to participate in the entrepreneurial experience our program cultivates.

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

EFP STUDENT PROFILES Supporting an M.E.T. student with an EFP contribution literally changes their life, by securing them the elusive freshman startup internship which leads to the upward spirals illustrated on the pages that follow.

SRINIJA CHERIVIRALA Internship Meta Internship Lyft Freshman EFP Internship GitStart 2020

2021, 2022

2022

TIJAAN HENDERSON Full-time Amgen Internship AmGen Freshman EFP Internship ImmunoMind 2020

2021, 2022

2023

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

GRACE LAM Internship Morgan Stanley

Full-time Palantir Technologies

Internship IDEO CoLab Freshman EFP Internship ImmunoMind 2020

2020

2021

JEREMY LI Internship TikTok Internship Google Freshman EFP Internship Segmed 2021

2022

2022

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2022

EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

AMIT NARANG

Internship Figma

Internship Stripe

Freshman EFP Internship Segmed 2020

Internship via Kleiner Perkins Fellowship Robinhood

2021

2021

ROBERT PELTEKOV Internship SpaceX

Freshman EFP Internship Hermes Robotics 2020

Internship Foxeye Robotics

2021

2022

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2022

EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

ALICIA WANG

Full-time Stripe

Internship Relentlo Internship Amazon EFP Internship Segmed 2020

2021

2022

JASMINE ZHENG

2023

Full-time Roblox

Internship Bain & Company Internship Roblox Freshman EFP Internship Crowdbotics 2020

2021

2022

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2023

EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

FROM OUR STUDENTS

EMILY HSI

NITHILA P.

GAURAV B.

Summer 2023 EFP Participant

Summer 2023 EFP Participant

Summer 2023 EFP Participant

“I believe it was AirMyne’s first year in the EFP program and I had the absolute best time — beyond all expectations. I was mentored so much and learned infinite. AirMyne is truly a joy to work with.”

“The company that I was paired with, Rubi Laboratories, ended up being one of my favorite companies I have ever come across, and I hope to work for them full-time in the future! As someone who used to refer to myself as a ‘confused engineer’ due to my widespread interests, this summer has helped me find the type of company and role that I hope to pursue in the future.”

“I’ve learned a lot during my time here [at Segmed]. I’ve learned about methods to isolate testing, how to develop containerized applications, and how to work across multiple codebases. I’ve also grown professionally; I am managed directly by a software engineer and have had many conversations on our architecture, which made me better at communicating my ideas and truly understanding others’ ideas.”

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

PARTICIPATING COMPANIES Startup Requirements • Currently affiliated with a UC Berkeley or M.E.T. -approved startup accelerator or fund.

• Be Pre-Seed, Seed, or Series A funded with 3–30 employees.

• Cannot be a current undergraduate student-founded startup from any college or university.

• Maximum of (2) M.E.T. student interns at each affiliated startup.

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

OUR ACCELERATORS Our Accelerator Partners are instrumental in helping students obtain internships. Our team puts a call out to accelerators in mid-January annually and we host a start-up career fair each April for our students and startups to network.

Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berke-

TechStars is a mentorship-

YCombinator provides a small

ley’s premier startup accelerator

driven accelerator, investing

amount of seed funding for start-

and incubator program. They

$120K and providing hands-on

ups and works with them to flesh

support startups founded by UC

mentorship and access to the

out ideas and help founders part-

Berkeley students, alumni, and

startups in the TechStars network.

ner with investors and acquirers.

faculty who are seeking to bring their scientific and technical discoveries to market and commercialize groundbreaking UC Berkeley research.

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

PROFILES OF STUDENT PARTICIPANTS Summer 2020 Participants (35 students) Tarun Amarnath

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Brightflow AI

Jasmine Bae

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

4D Sight

Srinija Cherivirala

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

GitStart

Gowri Datta

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Stryve

Jessica Dowdall

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Adereso

Mason Freeny

Class of 2023

ME + Business

4D Sight

Diego Gonzalez

Class of 2022

EECS + Business

Adereso

Arnav Gupta

Class of 2023

IEOR + Business

GitStart

Matthew Hallac

Class of 2022

EECS + Business

Dispatch Goods

Tijaan Henderson

Class of 2023

BioE + Business

ImmunoMind

Frank Jiang

Class of 2021

EECS + Business

1910 Genetics

Bhavesh Kalisetti

Class of 2023

ME + Business

Aimhub

Leah Kochendoerfer

Class of 2021

IEOR + Business

Dispatch Goods

Aadhrik Kuila

Class of 2022

EECS + Business

Crowdbotics

Hui Si (Grace) Lam

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

ImmunoMind

Elliot Larson

Class of 2022

IEOR + Business

1910 Genetics

Tina Li

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Brightflow AI

Samuel Liu

Class of 2023

CE + Business

Wing AI

Aishwarya Mahesh

Class of 2023

IEOR + Business

Brightflow AI

Ryan McCormick

Class of 2021

IEOR + Business

Brightflow AI

Ethan Mehta

Class of 2022

EECS + Business

ImmunoMind

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Amit Narang

Class of 2023

IEOR + Business

Segmed

Varsha Nekkanti

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Crowdbotics

Akshay Patel

Class of 2023

ME + Business

1910 Genetics

Robert Peltekov

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Hermes Robotics

Elianna Peng

Class of 2023

ME + Business

zHealth

Akash Rathod

Class of 2023

BioE + Business

TaxProper

Shilpa Sathyanathan

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Crowdbotics

Devan Shanker

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Segmed

Tejas Thvar

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Tolstoy.ai

Alicia Wang

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Segmed

Tianhui (Lily) Yang

Class of 2023

BioE + Business

4D Sight

Saam Zahedian

Class of 2021

EECS + Business

Segmed

Jasmine Zhang

Class of 2023

EECS + Business

Crowdbotics

Alex Zhao

Class of 2021

EECS + Business

CoralGenomics

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Summer 2021 Participants (25 students) Venkata Alapati

Class of 2024

BioE + Business

Instalab

Yasmin Barrera-Martinez

Class of 2023

BioE + Business

AHEAD Medicine

Gaurav Bhatnagar

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Reconnecting Labs (HiGeorge)

Justin Byers

Class of 2024

ME + Business

Lucy Goods

Ryan Chen

Class of 2022

EECS + Business

FireTrace

Ethan Chung

Class of 2024

BioE + Business

Nimble

Aashna Dalal

Class of 2024

BioE + Business

Instalab

Angela Gao

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Prelim

Riley Hernandez

Class of 2024

ME + Business

Mezli

Siddarth Ijju

Class of 2024

EECS+ Business

Correlia Biosystems

Matthew Kang

Class of 2024

ME + Business

Z Imaging

Ali Khan

Class of 2024

Engineering Undeclared + Business

Synkrino Bio

Stephen Krider

Class of 2024

ME + Business

Puzzl

Joseph Laderer

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Forest Park Group

Jeremy Li

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Segmed

William Lin

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

10 x 10

Daniel Pack

Class of 2024

ME + Business

Hermes Robotics

Ariel Qian

Class of 2024

IEOR + Business

StartPlaying.Games

Arvind Rajaraman

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Segmed

Shreya Ramesh

Class of 2024

BioE+ Business

Synkrino Bio

Enzo Reyes

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Sown To Grow

Derek Tan

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

StartPlaying.Games

Miranda Tao

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Sown To Grow

Nikil Thalanki

Class of 2024

MSE + Business

Pangea.app

Roshan Thomas

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Forest Park Group

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Summer 2022 Participants (25 students) Venkata Alapati

Class of 2024

BioE + Business

Rizlab Health

Gaurav Bhatnagar

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Correlia Biosystems

Richard Chao

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

SimBull

Kerem Dilmen

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

FoodWare

Cameron Ferweda

Class of 2025

ME + Business

Tyfast

Jackson Gold

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Replicate

Tushar Goyal

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

ATDev Inc.

Jack Hughes

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Correlia Biosystems

Lavanya Jain

Class of 2024

BioE + Business

SafeBeat Rx

Sriya Kappagantu

Class of 2025

EECS+ Business

SafeBeat Rx

Gurvir Kooner

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Rimble

Baoer Li

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Sown to Grow

William Lin

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

GamerSafer

Nithila Poongovan

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Arrow Dx

Suhani Singhal

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Arrow Dx

Tom Springer

Class of 2025

ME + Business

Geopogo

Rohan Taneja

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Pillar

Belle Tangkuptanon

Class of 2025

IEOR + Business

Gueno

Miranda Tao

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Pillar

Nikil Thalanki

Class of 2024

MSE+ Business

Tassel

Raj Thota

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Rimble

Jiahao (Robert) Yao

Class of 2024

MSE + Business

Tyfast

Oliver Ye

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Geopogo

Harry Yuan

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Hypertrader

Mengshu Zhang

Class of 2025

MSE + Business

Tyfast

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Summer 2023 Participants (22 students) Sasank Aduri

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

RTHM

Esha Ananth

Class of 2026

BioE + Business

Safebeat

Gaurav Bhatnagar

Class of 2024

EECS + Business

Segmed

Nihal Boina

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

Rimble

Andy Chen

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

Rimble

Ashok Devireddy

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

Jacobi

Emily Hsi

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

Airmyne

Vikram Iyer

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

Dyrt Labs

Shrinandan Narayanan

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

kwikkart

Hari Parthasarathy

Class of 2025

BioE+ Business

Synkrino

Nithila Poongovan

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Rubi Labs

Sasvath Ramachandran

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

kwikkart

Maximillian Raney

Class of 2026

ME + Business

Glyphic Biotechnologies

Sajal Ravish

Class of 2026

IEOR + Business

Tassel

Alexandra Reyes

Class of 2025

EECS + Business

Foodware

Nolan Rossi

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

Pillar

Sujay Sheth

Class of 2025

BioE + Business

Safebeat

Pracheeti Shikarkhane

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

Glyphic Biotechnologies

Jonathan Tao

Class of 2026

EECS + Business

Segmed

Aurelia Wang

Class of 2026

EECS+ Business

Tassel

Brian Wen

Class of 2026

CE + Business

Synkrino

Vicky Xiao

Class of 2026

BioE + Business

StartPlaying.Games

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EFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

JOIN AN EXCEPTIONAL DONOR COMMUNITY Envisioned by and made possible through a generous community of benefactors, ongoing gifts to this transformational program directly impact students and provide a life changing opportunity that is 100% donor-funded.

KAMAL DUGGIRALA

MARK EDELSTONE

JON GOLDSTEIN

MICHAEL GRIMES

TOM HUI

JASVINDER KHAIRA

TED KUH

JAMES LAU

RANGA RAJAGOPALAN

SUJATHA RANGANATHAN

SEEKING CURRENT YEAR EFP SPONSORSHIPS

SEEKING EFP PERPETUAL ENDOWMENT

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