Jeremy Fiance

The UC Board of Regents met Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss AI investments, immigration status and work-study jobs, ableism training for faculty and staff and budget reports. The board also voted to unanimously approve UC Berkeley’s new College of Computing, Data Science and Society, or CDSS.

UC Berkeley’s startup ecosystem, which has helped launch hundreds of companies, is a network of startup incubators, accelerators, investors and classes.

Three UC Berkeley students founded a company dedicated to connecting startups in India with resources from Silicon Valley, providing mentorship and funding for these new organizations.

During the UC Board of Regents finance committee meeting Friday, the university revealed that it had invested in the House Fund — a $6 million venture capitalist fund exclusively for on campus student, alumni and faculty startups.

The House — a startup institute exclusively for UC Berkeley students, alumni and staff — launched Wednesday at 2560 Bancroft Way, the former student store.

The Bay Area is filled with successful startups created by campus alumni — TubeMogul, Caviar and Indiegogo, to name a few — but until recently, aspiring UC Berkeley entrepreneurs did not have access to funding allocated specifically for them.

Travis Kalanick, CEO of the car-sharing service, Uber, stopped by Banatao Auditorium Thursday evening to share his entrepreneurship tips with approximately 150 students.

More than 100 Berkeley entrepreneurs gathered in Downtown Berkeley to participate in Startup Weekend, a student-run 54-hour event where entrepreneurs pitch ideas to peers and venture capitalist judges.

As many would-be entrepreneurs have discovered, there is a huge difference between having an idea and making it a reality. Free Ventures is attempting to bridge that gap.

Instead of cracking codes and shutting down networks, UC Berkeley students participating in a hackathon hosted by Bloomberg this week, put their computer programming skills to use, improving their humanitarian business ventures.