Deal Flow: NYC's First VC Hackathon

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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: VCs from multiple NYC firms.

Who Should Attend: Pre-seed and seed founders. Engineers. Builders who have felt the pain of fundraising firsthand. Anyone curious about how venture capital actually works from the inside. You don't need VC experience or a finished idea. Just show up ready to build.

Sponsors: [Sponsor TBD. Want to back NYC's first VC hackathon? Email somyag00@gmail.com]

Hosts: Somya Gupta — The face of NYC startup ecosystem. Tracy Huang — VC Lab and CEO of Interlink IQ.

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