E@B Newsletter #2

The last few weeks of E@B have been a blur of more people building and conversations about the startup space. We wanted to share a snapshot of what's been happening on our end: what our founders are building, what's moving, and where you can plug in.

E@B Demo Day

We're bringing operators and VCs to give feedback, judge, and get involved.

Our newest founders (many of whom have raised, shipped, and exited) are presenting what they've been building:

• Oasis deploys voice agents to run initial technical and behavioral interviews, benchmarking candidates at scale. Sanjay Mukhyala, Aaryan Patil, Mark Shi, Eric Liu.

• N22 designs AI systems for enterprise that help their customers troubleshoot hardware devices. Akshay Sunkara.

• Prism, the data intelligence layer for robotics that enables teams to query, retrieve, and semantically search robot training data sets for improved training and evaluation. Shruti Pataballa, Ahana Chakraborty.

• Corexa is an RFP automation and budget benchmarking tool that eliminates guesswork in clinical trial planning. Linda Molnar.

• Plureto: Real world multimodal dexterous data for robotics companies, from households to factory floors. Aryaa Bhatia, Poorv Chovatia.

• Axiom is a vertical robotics company deploying robot foundational models. Thenuk Rodrigo, Simba Shi.

• Vendell is autonomous infra that speeds up local govt permit processing. Rithvik Sabnekar.

• Actionable builds AI agents for health care to catch underpayments, automate prior authorizations, centralize contracts. Dhanush Eashwar, Pranav Kannepalli, Vishnu Ayalasomayajula.

• Archangel Health: the platform that helps surgery centers succeed under TEAM (the CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model), improving outcomes while reducing costly complications and readmissions. Tej Patel.

• FreightAI automates back office billing operations for SMB trucking companies. Gurmeher Bhasin, Malkit Bhasin.

• Loice is an AI intake agent that answers, qualifies, and signs personal injury clients instantly, eliminating the delay between first contact and getting signed. Flora Dixit, Aritro Bhattacharjee.

• Molar: AI agents running dental practice operations — no integration, works with any PMS via computer use. Ishaan Pandey, Abhinav Jinka.

• ReMove: end to end system for reducing curbside waste through targeted awareness, data optimization, and streamlined access to waste services. Siddhi Jain, Joon Choi, Samantha Liu.

Demo day is Sunday, April 26th at 1 PM: RSVP here!

Founder Spotlight: Arden

Aryaman Khanna, David Lomelin (Lance, YC W26)

Arden is AI-native SOX compliance for internal audit teams.

The problem they're obsessed with: Building AI that auditors can finally trust.

A scrappy thing they did this week: Delivered cookies to audit firms in SF.

A weird/funny founder mishap: Getting their emails blocked — Aryaman had his email blocked by Berkeley 3 times.

What they wish they knew at Berkeley: Be a sponge, expose yourself to as many things as possible and see what sticks.

Their ask from readers: If you know any senior finance, audit, or IT people at public companies, please book a call.

Recent Wins & Thank You's

Lance (YC W26 & E@B) raised at a $60M valuation with backing from SV Angel, OpenAI, Expedia, Marriott, and more. They've already started raising their Series A with $2M committed. They're hiring across GTM, Customer Success, Hardware, and Engineering, plus a summer intern class if you want to work with one of the fastest-moving teams out of YC this year. Congrats Caleb Chan, Gatik Trivedi, and Gavin Brennen!

Try out flip — it's a money manager in your iMessage that will proactively send you deals (GrubHub Guarantee, Chipotle discounts, etc.) and help you make cash on the side (e.g. credit card bonuses). They have a partnership with payroll providers to help you get $500+ from your direct deposit. Congrats Mason Arditi on the launch!

This semester, E@B teams have been working directly with Databricks and Zendesk on real product + strategy problems. Thank you for trusting students with real work.

This ecosystem only works because people keep showing up. Thank you to:

• Siddhant Dubey (General Catalyst) for joining us for dinner and sharing how early-stage judgement actually works.
• Skyler Chan for breaking down GRU at our GM.
• Anika Adzich, Carson Kraycik, and Tim Simon from Pareto Holdings for joining our General Meeting and spending time with founders.

Thank you to everyone who made an intro, hosted a room, mentored a founder, donated credits, took a coffee chat, or even just showed up. You're building Berkeley's startup culture whether you realize it or not.

These conversations compound more than people realize.

Lastly, we're curious about something

Recently we've been debating a few things about startup culture internally:

• What's a Berkeley resource founders underuse?
• What 'unfair advantages' do students really have?
• What are the best ways you've met co-founders?

If you have thoughts, just reply; we read everything.

If this newsletter was forwarded to you and you want in, you're already one step in. Check out our website.

See you soon, Entrepreneurs at Berkeley