Upswot, since today, is the U.S. based company and joins Berkeley SkyDeck because of:

1) Team. All the management team has entrepreneurial experience, failures, and successful exits

2) It is always about the team. The best global Venture funds – Sequoia Capital, Sierra Capital, Mayfield Fund, Canvas Ventures, and UC Berkeleyare those who created this program and joined as LP

3) #GoBears – our team joins the family of the Berkeley university with all available benefits.

Including involvement of students from various faculties, post-graduates, post-doctoral professors, MBA students, data scientists, and dozens of thousands of alumni working in the financial industry globally

4) And again – no matter if you are VC, start-up, accelerator or corporation – it is always about the team

All the members of the program were accessible 24 hours a day even before our acceptance. They were helping us with advice, intros (top, really top executives of the biggest banks), strategy and fundraising questions even during the selection period – and that is something so impressive that I haven’t ever seen in any other program

Thus, the choice which program to join was a pretty easy one for us;)

P.S. Congrats to our friends from #whatelse, #wheeltheworld
Start-Up Chile, your alumni rock!