Meet the 2025 Mayfield AI Garage Winning Teams at Berkeley

From a spark of an idea to breakthrough AI solutions — we’re delighted to unveil the winning teams of the inaugural Mayfield AI Garage at Berkeley!

After reviewing hundreds of applications from brilliant student builders and researchers across the UC Berkeley community, we selected five exceptional teams pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in AI.

Each team will receive a stipend, mentorship from Mayfield and our partners, and compute credits to bring their visions to life.

Congratulations to our 2025 winning cohort:

• Touchstone
• Evelyn Tran, Emily Tran
• An AI teammate to prevent refund fraud in e-commerce
• Interlinked
• Rehaan Bicha, Rushil Desai, Neel Shetty
• An AI teammate advancing fire and environmental safety
• Oratora
• Trishala Jain, Mark Nour
• An AI-powered coach for interview preparation
• NovaSky
• Dacheng Li, Shiyi Cao, Shu (Lynn) Liu, Tyler Griggs, Simon Mo
• Open-source, state-of-the-art AI models that are affordable and accessible
• TAG (Table-Augmented Generation)
• Asim Biswal, Liana Patel, Shu (Lynn) Liu, Sid Jha, Amog Kamsetty
• A new approach to answering natural language questions using structured data

Huge thank you to our partners at UC Berkeley’s CDSS, Berkeley SkyDeck, Microsoft, and NVIDIA — your support made this possible.

Learn more about our winning teams and other Mayfield AI Garage initiatives: mayfield.ai/garage