What to look forward to
Deal Flow will bring teams together for nine hours to build practical software for VC sourcing, diligence, portfolio operations, LP reporting, and deal workflows, with live demos and prizes including introductions to participating funds. Projects will be evaluated by investors and operators, including Plug and Play Ventures Principal Abeera Saeed, Everywhere Ventures Associate Michael Barone, three-time exited founder D. J. Patel, and Wand AI product leader Radhika Khandelwal.
Inside the event
📋 Event Description New York is getting its first VC hackathon, and you're building for the people who write the checks. Deal Flow is a one-day, in-person hackathon hosted by localhost:nyc and VCLab. You get 9 hours to build working products for the real problems VCs face every day. Partners from NYC's top funds judge live, and the best teams leave with intros to those funds. Problem Statement Venture capital runs on spreadsheets, gut feel and endless inbox triage. Firms move billions of dollars with tools that haven't changed in a decade. Your challenge is to build software that helps VCs find better companies, make faster decisions and support their founders after the check clears. The Challenge Theme Sourcing: finding breakout founders before everyone else does Diligence: market maps, competitive analysis and memo drafting Portfolio ops: helping funds support their companies at scale LP reporting: making fund updates less painful and more useful Deal pipeline and CRM workflows that VCs will actually use What to Expect 9 hours of focused building, 9 AM to 6 PM Real VC problems, with investors in the room to test your ideas against Teams of 4 Time to meet founders, engineers and investors from across NYC Live demos to a panel of VC judges at the end of the day Food and drinks all day Prizes Winners get intros to the funds in the room + other prizes to be announced. Judges Abeera Saeed is the Ventures Principal at Plug and Play, investing in Enterprise & AI B2B SaaS companies from Pre-Seed to Series A. Michael Barone - Associate at Everywhere Ventures, a global pre-seed venture capital firm. D. J. Patel - VC | 3x exited founder. Radhika Khandelwal builds AI agents for a living as a product leader at Wand AI, and she's spent years in the VC world seeing what makes startups stick. She'll want to see both slick code and a real business. Who Should Attend Pre-seed and seed founders Engineers Builders who have felt the pain of fundraising firsthand Anyone curious about
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