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Student Startup Center

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Entrepreneurship

The Student Startup Center is here to support you as you develop your skills, knowledge, and ventures. Build a founding team; compete with other UC Davis student entrepreneurs; and learn from industry experts.

Events

Learn from founders, investors, business and technology experts, and peers in our events and podcasts.

PLASMA

Develop your skillset, network, and venture as a PLASMA participant.

Master Calendar

Learn from our successful

Guest Speakers

The center offers opportunities to build and lead founding teams, participate in competitions against fellow UC Davis student entrepreneurs, and gain insights from industry experts. A key feature of the center’s programming includes sessions with highly successful guest speakers, including self-made billionaires, who share their experiences and strategies for building influential businesses.

Co-founder of Pensando Systems. He built on the same technology that the hyperscalers use, the heart of the AMD Pensando™ platform is a fully programmable P4 data processing unit (DPU). It’s optimized to execute a software stack delivering cloud, compute, network, storage, and security services at cloud scale – with minimal latency, jitter, and power requirements.

Student Startup Center at UC Davis, fostering entrepreneurship and innovation among students.

Shweta, a seasoned executive with experience in education and technology, has an impressive track record in leading teams and launching impactful initiatives. From spearheading a global tech platform at AT&T to founding her own AI startup focused on making education data actionable, Shweta is dedicated to creating equitable access to quality education.

Young woman smiling outdoors at UC Davis Student Startup Center.

She is an innovator, strategist, and visionary with extensive experience in developing technologies that extend market share and drive business goals. With a hands-on technical background, Kati is passionate about the future of the Digital Data Economy and Digital Democracy, holding over 120 international patents.

Student Startup Center at UC Davis for entrepreneurial students.