Riddhi Khanna, Associate at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund

On The Rise is a student-led podcast, which aims to inspire the next generation of leaders. Today we spoke with Riddhi Khanna, an associate at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, which provides pre-seed and seed funding to teams going through the Berkeley SkyDeck accelerator program. It is funded by top VC firms such as Sequoia Capital, Sierra Ventures, and Canvas Ventures, and closed its $60 Million Fund II last year. Riddhi discusses how she got started at SkyDeck, the qualities of strong founding teams, the qualities SkyDeck looks for in early-stage startups, and her advice for young leaders looking to get started in venture capital.