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E@B Newsletter #2
Demo Day Preview; What Berkeley Founders are Shipping & Figuring Out
Entrepreneurs at Berkeley
April 14, 2026·6 min read
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The last few weeks of E@B have been a blur of more people building and more conversations about the startup space.
Here's a snapshot of what's been happening on our end: what our founders are building, what's moving, and where you can plug in.
Demo day
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.
- When
- Sunday, April 26
- Doors
- 1:00 PM
- Presenting
- 13 teams
Oasis
Sanjay Mukhyala, Aaryan Patil, Mark Shi, Eric Liu
Deploys voice agents to run initial technical and behavioral interviews, benchmarking candidates at scale.
N22
Akshay Sunkara
Designs AI systems for enterprise that help their customers troubleshoot hardware devices.
Prism
Shruti Pataballa, Ahana Chakraborty
The data intelligence layer for robotics — query, retrieve, and semantically search robot training data for better training and evaluation.
Corexa
Linda Molnar
An RFP automation and budget benchmarking tool that eliminates guesswork in clinical trial planning.
Plureto
Aryaa Bhatia, Poorv Chovatia
Real-world multimodal dexterous data for robotics companies, from households to factory floors.
Axiom
Thenuk Rodrigo, Simba Shi
A vertical robotics company deploying robot foundational models.
Vendell
Rithvik Sabnekar
Autonomous infrastructure that speeds up local government permit processing.
Actionable
Dhanush Eashwar, Pranav Kannepalli, Vishnu Ayalasomayajula
Builds AI agents for health care to catch underpayments, automate prior authorizations, and centralize contracts.
Archangel Health
Tej Patel
Helps surgery centers succeed under TEAM (the CMS Transforming Episode Accountability Model), improving outcomes while reducing costly complications and readmissions.
FreightAI
Gurmeher Bhasin, Malkit Bhasin
Automates back-office billing operations for SMB trucking companies.
Loice
Flora Dixit, Aritro Bhattacharjee
An AI intake agent that answers, qualifies, and signs personal injury clients instantly — eliminating the delay between first contact and getting signed.
Molar
Ishaan Pandey, Abhinav Jinka
AI agents running dental practice operations — no integration required, works with any PMS via computer use.
ReMove
Siddhi Jain, Joon Choi, Samantha Liu
An end-to-end system for reducing curbside waste through targeted awareness, data optimization, and streamlined access to waste services.
Demo Day · Sunday, April 26 at 1 PM
The official RSVP goes out with your usual E@B links. Shout if you're an investor and haven't been looped in yet.
Founder spotlight
Arden
Aryaman Khanna and David Lomelin — Lance, YC W26.
Arden is AI-native SOX compliance for internal audit teams.
- Obsessed with
- Building AI that auditors can finally trust.
- Scrappy moment
- Delivered cookies to audit firms in SF.
- Founder mishap
- Getting their emails blocked — Aryaman had his email blocked by Berkeley three times.
- Wish they'd known
- Be a sponge. Expose yourself to as many things as possible and see what sticks.
- Their ask
- If you know any senior finance, audit, or IT people at public companies, please book a call.
Community
Recent wins & thank-yous
What the community raised, launched, and showed up for this semester.
Lance
Lance raised at a $60M valuation with backing from SV Angel, OpenAI, Expedia, Marriott, and more, and has 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!
flip
flip is a money manager in your iMessage that proactively sends you deals (GrubHub Guarantee, Chipotle discounts) and helps you make cash on the side, like 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!
Databricks & Zendesk
This semester, E@B teams worked directly with Databricks and Zendesk on real product and 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 General Meeting.
- Anika Adzich, Carson Kraycik, and Tim Simon from Pareto Holdings for spending time with our 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.
Open question
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.
Continue reading
E@B Newsletter #1
Our first newsletter — what YC-backed E@B teams are building, a founder spotlight on Lance (YC W26), and recent wins from the community.
Entrepreneurs at Berkeley · February 12, 2026 · 5 min