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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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
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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
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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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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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