Entrepreneurs @ Berkeley members laughing together on the steps of Doe Library

Entrepreneurs @ BerkeleySpring 2026 · Doe Library

Builders needother builders.

We bring Berkeley's most curious people into one room and give ambitious ideas somewhere to move.

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Why we exist

The spark is already here.We build the room around it.

Entrepreneurship is learned by making. E@B gives students the people, pressure, and proximity that turn a private idea into something real.

The room changes everything.

What we do

Less theory. More things that leave the room.

Student founders presenting their work to a classroom

Incubator · 12 weeks

Build in public.

Move from idea to demo through weekly sprints, direct feedback, and a room that expects progress.

Members gathered around a table at a founder dinner

Founder dinners · Monthly

Learn up close.

Trade polished keynotes for honest conversations with people who have built, failed, raised, and tried again.

An E@B member focused during a project session

Projects · Real briefs

Ship for real.

Work across product, strategy, and technology on problems that matter to real companies and real users.

A small room with serious momentum.

7
Y Combinator acceptances

6
Berkeley SkyDeck teams

45M+
Raised

60+
Startups launched

Why Berkeley

Three forces. One unfair advantage.

A guest founder speaking with E@B members

Campus energy

Ambition is ambient.

People here are already building, researching, organizing, and questioning. Momentum is the default setting.

E@B members together on a night in San Francisco

Proximity

The ecosystem is next door.

A BART ride connects campus with founders, investors, and operators across the Bay Area.

Women of E@B together in front of Doe Library

Perspective

Difference makes better ideas.

Engineers, artists, researchers, and policy minds collide here. The result is a wider view of what is worth fixing.

Life outside the pitch deck

The best ideas rarely start in a boardroom.

Sometimes they start on a mountain, over dinner, or in the middle of a very crowded Cal Day photo.

E@B members kayaking and paddleboarding on Lake Tahoe — TahoeRetreat mode

E@B members celebrating together on Cal Day — Cal DayBear territory

E@B members on a Napa Valley trip — NapaOff campus

E@B members having a picnic on Memorial Glade — Memorial GladePicnic break

E@B members together at a luau in Hawaii — HawaiiA little farther

E@B members together on a ski trip — Ski tripFresh tracks

Build. Debate. Road trip. Repeat.

What momentum looks like

Started here. Shipping everywhere.

Members leave the room with more than notes. These are a few of the companies they built.

Meet all companies

Neil Goradia and Soham Chakraborty at Y Combinator

YC F26Health

STASIS

The WHOOP for your eyes.

Tej Patel and Aryaa Bhatia at Y Combinator

YC F26Health

Archangel Health

Infrastructure to power medical AI.

YC S26Healthtech

Lumeria

At-home clinical skin imaging.

YC W26Hospitality

Lance

AI agents for hotel operations.

YC F25AI infrastructure

The Context Company

Observability for AI agents.

YC S25AI infrastructure

Naïve

Autonomous company infrastructure.

Entrepreneurs @ Berkeley members making the E@B hand sign

Your turn

Bring the idea youcannot stop thinking about.

You do not need a finished company. You need curiosity, momentum, and the willingness to build beside people who care.

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