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<h1>Berkeley Xcelerator</h1>
<p class="subtitle">The Launchpad for Next‑Generation AI & Agentic AI Startups</p>
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The Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence (RDI) is building the global hub for innovation in AI and Agentic AI. At the heart of this mission is the Berkeley Xcelerator, designed to help founders turn breakthrough ideas into scalable, venture‑backable companies that shape the future of intelligent systems.
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<p>Unlike traditional accelerators, the Berkeley Xcelerator is completely non-dilutive and free for selected startups.</p>
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<p class="stat-number">110+</p>
<p class="stat-label">Global teams incubated across AI, cybersecurity, and decentralized tech</p>
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<p class="stat-number">$650M+</p>
<p class="stat-label">Follow-on funding from venture and strategic investors</p>
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<h2 class="section-title">2026 Spring Cohort</h2>
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<div class="a16z-logo a16z-logo-img"><img src="/assets/images/xcelerator-cohort-2026/companies/narada/logo-full.png" alt="Narada AI"></div>
<h3>Narada AI</h3>
<p class="a16z-tagline">Agentic automation platform using Large Action Models to automate complex enterprise workflows end-to-end.</p>
<p class="a16z-hover-hint">Hover for founders →</p>
</div>
<div class="a16z-card-back">
<h4>Narada AI</h4>
<p class="a16z-desc">Narada is an agentic automation platform developed out of the UC Berkeley AI Research Lab that enables enterprises to automate complex, multi-step workflows across their business applications. Their AI agents execute processes end-to-end across both SaaS and legacy systems, adapt and self-heal to variable interfaces, and operate via the browser, APIs, and Citrix.</p>
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<div class="a16z-founder">
<img class="a16z-founder-headshot" src="/assets/images/xcelerator-cohort-2026/founders/dave-park.jpg" alt="Dave Park">
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<div class="a16z-founder-name">
Dave Park <span class="a16z-founder-title">— Co-Founder & CEO</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-park-narada/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-founder-linkedin">in</a>
</div>
<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Co-founded Coverity out of Stanford ($375M acquisition by Synopsys). Serial entrepreneur.</p>
</div>
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<img class="a16z-founder-headshot" src="/assets/images/xcelerator-cohort-2026/founders/amir-gholami.jpg" alt="Amir Gholami">
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<div class="a16z-founder-name">
Amir Gholami <span class="a16z-founder-title">— Co-Founder & CTO</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/a-gholami" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-founder-linkedin">in</a>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Research Scientist at UC Berkeley BAIR and Sky lab. PhD UT Austin.</p>
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<img class="a16z-founder-headshot" src="/assets/images/xcelerator-cohort-2026/founders/kurt-keutzer.jpg" alt="Kurt Keutzer">
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Kurt Keutzer <span class="a16z-founder-title">— Co-Founder & CSO</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtkeutzer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-founder-linkedin">in</a>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Professor, UC Berkeley EECS. Former CTO of Synopsys. Co-founded DeepScale (acq. Tesla), Nexusflow (acq. NVIDIA).</p>
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<div class="a16z-meta">
<span>Berkeley, CA</span>
<span>Founded 2021</span>
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<div class="a16z-links">
<a href="https://www.narada.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-link">www.narada.ai ↗</a>
<a href="mailto:connect@narada.ai" class="a16z-link">connect@narada.ai ✉</a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/narada-ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-link">LinkedIn ↗</a>
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<div class="a16z-logo a16z-logo-img"><img src="/assets/images/xcelerator-cohort-2026/companies/cognee/logo-full.svg" alt="cognee"></div>
<h3>cognee</h3>
<p class="a16z-tagline">Ontology-grounded context engine for your agents, enabling them to reason and improve over time.</p>
<p class="a16z-hover-hint">Hover for founders →</p>
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<h4>cognee</h4>
<p class="a16z-desc">Open-source AI memory layer using vectors and knowledge graphs. Structures data into vectors and knowledge graphs, enabling persistent context and multi-agent coordination for AI applications.</p>
<div class="a16z-founders">
<div class="a16z-founder">
<img class="a16z-founder-headshot" src="/assets/images/xcelerator-cohort-2026/founders/vasilije-markovic.jpg" alt="Vasilije Markovic">
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Vasilije Markovic <span class="a16z-founder-title">— Founder & CEO</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasilije-markovic-13302471/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-founder-linkedin">in</a>
</div>
<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Prev. Zalando, Taxfix, Omio. Background in data engineering and cognitive sciences.</p>
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<div class="a16z-meta">
<span>Berlin, Germany</span>
<span>Founded 2024</span>
</div>
<div class="a16z-links">
<a href="https://www.cognee.ai" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-link">www.cognee.ai ↗</a>
<a href="mailto:social@cognee.ai" class="a16z-link">social@cognee.ai ✉</a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/103889898" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-link">LinkedIn ↗</a>
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<div class="a16z-card-inner">
<div class="a16z-card-front">
<div class="a16z-logo a16z-logo-img"><img src="/assets/images/xcelerator-cohort-2026/companies/nimblemind/logo-full-clean.png" alt="Nimblemind"></div>
<h3>Nimblemind</h3>
<p class="a16z-tagline">AI agents for healthcare data interoperability, automating feature extraction from multi-modal healthcare data.</p>
<p class="a16z-hover-hint">Hover for founders →</p>
</div>
<div class="a16z-card-back">
<h4>Nimblemind</h4>
<p class="a16z-desc">Nimblemind trains and builds agents for Healthcare Data Interoperability. Nimblemind automates feature extraction from multi-modal healthcare data.</p>
<div class="a16z-founders">
<div class="a16z-founder">
<img class="a16z-founder-headshot" src="/assets/images/xcelerator-cohort-2026/founders/pi-zonooz.jpg" alt="Pi Zonooz">
<div class="a16z-founder-info">
<div class="a16z-founder-name">
Pi Zonooz <span class="a16z-founder-title">— Co-Founder & CEO</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/piz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-founder-linkedin">in</a>
</div>
<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Prev. AWS and Stripe. Nuclear Engineering, UIUC. MBA, Northwestern.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="a16z-founder">
<img class="a16z-founder-headshot" src="/assets/images/xcelerator-cohort-2026/founders/navin-kumar.jpg" alt="Navin Kumar">
<div class="a16z-founder-info">
<div class="a16z-founder-name">
Navin Kumar <span class="a16z-founder-title">— Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer</span> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/navin-kumar88/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-founder-linkedin">in</a>
</div>
<p class="a16z-founder-bio">PhD from Yale. Prev. Head of Data Science at NYC Health + Hospitals.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="a16z-meta">
<span>Chicago, IL</span>
<span>Founded 2024</span>
</div>
<div class="a16z-links">
<a href="https://www.nimblemind.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-link">www.nimblemind.ai ↗</a>
<a href="mailto:contact@nimblemind.ai" class="a16z-link">contact@nimblemind.ai ✉</a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/nimblemindai" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-link">LinkedIn ↗</a>
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</article>
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<h3>Headroom</h3>
<p class="a16z-tagline">The context optimization layer for LLM agents, cutting tokens 40-90% losslessly across text, voice, and regulated verticals.</p>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Prev. Netflix (ML/AI Infrastructure), Box, Samsung, Apple. MS Carnegie Mellon.</p>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Multi-time founder. PhD in Computer Science. Scaled SaaS businesses up to $80M.</p>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Associate Professor, University of Maryland. PhD MIT, postdoc Stanford. 2024 PECASE recipient.</p>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">PhD from University of Maryland. BS from Tsinghua University (Yao Class).</p>
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<a href="https://relai.ai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="a16z-link">relai.ai ↗</a>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Serial entrepreneur. Founded Sken.ai (acquired by Fortinet) and waygum.io (acquired).</p>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">Three-time founder with two acquisitions (AutonomIQ by Sauce Labs, appOrbit by Cohesity).</p>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">PhD Computer Science, Georgia Tech. Senior Research Engineer at Georgia Tech.</p>
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<p class="a16z-founder-bio">PhD candidate, Georgia Tech. Prev. Microsoft.</p>
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<span>San Francisco, CA</span>
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