# Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

> Berkeley SkyDeck Fund is a VC fund backing Software. See 157 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Berkeley, United States
- Total investments: 157
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: http://www.skydeck.vc/

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund is an investment Arm Behind UC Berkeley's SkyDeck Accelerator.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 46 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 45 | 29% |
| Information Technology | 25 | 16% |
| Health Care | 19 | 12% |
| Biotechnology | 18 | 11% |

169 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 70 | 45% |
| Pre-Seed | 58 | 37% |
| Series A | 9 | 6% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 3% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 2% |

10 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 102 | 65% |
| France | 6 | 4% |
| Mexico | 3 | 2% |
| Germany | 3 | 2% |
| South Korea | 3 | 2% |

17 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chon Tang | Founding Partner | 45 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chon-tang |
| Brian Bordley | Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brian-bordley |
| Gopakumar Balakrishnan | Top Startup Founder (Cohort 15) | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gopakumar-balakrishnan |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| VoiceBit | Voicebit is creating the future of restaurant ordering with an end-to-end voice-first system that integrates with existing phones to capture orders, process payments, manage delivery, and drive loyalty while cutting costs for customers and boosting restaurant margins. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Mar 19, 2026 |  |
| Living Models | Living Models is concentrating on this field by employing AI methods on biological data, especially in plant science, where enhancing crop yield and resilience is becoming crucial as global agriculture is impacted by climatic challenges. | $7M | Seed | Mar 11, 2026 |  |
| Deplace AI | Deplace AI collects and annotates human demonstration data and converts it into language guidance for robotics models. The platform helps robots learn from diverse environments. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Oct 07, 2025 |  |
| Waypoint AI | Waypoint AI triages, deflects, routes, and does postmortems. before they become into crises. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 26, 2025 |  |
| Aliqindoi Circular Solutions | Aliqindoi is an innovative SaaS platform that empowers businesses to engage in the circular economy. It connects various stakeholders within the ecosystem, facilitating refurbishment, resale, and recycling processes while providing real-time price intelligence, asset management, and automated logistics tools. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| VoiceBit | Voicebit is creating the future of restaurant ordering with an end-to-end voice-first system that integrates with existing phones to capture orders, process payments, manage delivery, and drive loyalty while cutting costs for customers and boosting restaurant margins. | $200K | Pre-Seed | Jun 01, 2025 |  |
| Scam AI | Scam AI is a platform that provides real-time detection of AI-generated content, including deepfakes, voice clones, and synthetic images. It offers an API-based solution that integrates into applications to analyze media files for authenticity. The system employs machine learning models trained on extensive datasets to identify digital patterns andartifacts characteristic of AI-generated media. The platform supports various image formats, such as JPEG and PNG, and is optimized for photographs and realistic renderings. It delivers analysis results with an average response time of under six seconds for standard images. It also provides client libraries for multiple programming languages, facilitating integration into existing systems. | $200K | Pre-Seed | May 05, 2025 |  |
| Ochy | Ochy is that app that uses video and AI to bring lab quality analysis on a smartphone so people can evaluate their technique whenever and wherever they want. The core AI technology is built to analyse the movement of people and built on top of this is an algorithm to determine if someone has the correct biomechanical movement in running situations.Base on the AI analysis, we identify the weak points of the person and provide an exercise plan to improve the weak points so the athlete can prevent injuries and run more efficiently. The core AI technology can be used in several situations. Coaches: Help a coach to understand their athlete and create a good training programRunners: Help runners who don’t have a coach to evaluate their technique and have a plan to improveMedical Professionals: Help medical professionals (kine, Osteo) to evaluate the technique of their patients and provide the good rehab | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Feb 19, 2025 |  |
| Oso Semiconductor | Oso Semiconductor is a developer of power-efficient, chipsets for next generation wireless communication and sensing applications. | $5.2M | Seed | Feb 12, 2025 |  |
| Prophecy.io | Prophecy.io offers a data transformation copilot that assists users in developing, deploying, and monitoring data pipelines across cloud platforms. The platform integrates AI and a visual interface to enhance productivity for various data users, enabling them to manage complex data workflows with ease. | $47M | Series B | Jan 16, 2025 |  |

10 of 157 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [SkyDeck Berkeley](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/skydeck-berkeley) — VC Fund, 32 deals together
- [Surface Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rtp-seed) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Emergent Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emergent-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Fusion Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fusion-fund) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Shanda Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shanda-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Berkeley SkyDeck Fund invest in?

Berkeley SkyDeck Fund invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 157 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Berkeley SkyDeck Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund?

The team at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund includes Chon Tang (Founding Partner), Brian Bordley (Partner) and Gopakumar Balakrishnan (Top Startup Founder (Cohort 15)). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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