Full-Day Hackathon · Panels · Demo Day

👔 Dresscode: Business Casual 👗

20 Teams. 3 Panels. $80K+ on the line.

On May 2nd, Beta University brings together the next generation of AI builders, founders, and investors for a full-day experience — where ideas go from concept → product → pitch → capital.

🎯 Pitch to 20+ VCs. Learn what actually matters. Build something real.

This is where ideas turn into companies.

You’ll be in the room with 20+ active investors, pitching directly and hearing firsthand what they’re actually looking for — from product direction to signals of venture-scale potential.

Across curated panels, industry experts and operators will break down:

⚡ How AI is actually being used across real industries
📈 What use cases are working right now
🔍 Where the biggest opportunities are emerging

Then you build. Then you pitch.

🏛️ A Full-Day, Dual-Room Experience

Hosted at the legendary Computer History Museum, we’re running two parallel tracks:

🎤 Room 1 — Panels + Demo Day

Keynotes and panels with top VCs and operators
20 selected teams pitching live
Awards + investor exposure

🛠️ Room 2 — Live Hackathon

Full-day build session
Ship a working product in hours
Opportunity to get fast-tracked visibility

Build in the morning. Pitch in the afternoon.

💰 The Stakes

💵 $50K investment opportunity from Beta Fund
🏆 $20K+ in cash prizes
- Judges' Choice - 1st Place $5,000
- Judges' Choice - 2nd Place $3,000
- Judges' Choice - 3rd Place $2,000
- Best Product Continuity (Awarded 1 week post-event) $3,000
- Best Social Media Impact, top 3 most likes and engagement (Awarded 1 week post-event) $1000, $600, and $400
- Audience Favorite - 1st Place $2,000
- Audience Favorite - 2nd Place $1,000
- Best Technical Implementation $1,000
- Best GTM Potential $500
- Most Innovative $500
🎯 Only 20 teams selected to pitch live
🚀 Direct exposure to 20+ VCs in the room

🥇 Butterbase Special Prizes

The backend for apps you build with AI. Code with your favorite AI assistant, tell it to use Butterbase, and it handles the rest — database, auth, file storage, serverless functions, API endpoints, and deployment. Zero configuration required. You keep shipping your product, and the backend forms itself.

Best Use of Butterbase: $200 Butterbase Credits
Participant Perk: Every attendee gets $20 in credits (covers your first month on our launch plan) to kickstart their build!(Only redeemable during the hackathon)
- 👉 Claim your promo code in Builders Club Discord.

Quick Start (Build in Minutes)

Sign Up: dashboard.butterbase.ai
Setup: Generate your API key and follow the one-step agent setup.
Prompt: Tell your AI agent: "With Butterbase, let's build..."
Support: Stuck? Join Builders Club Discord #butterbase-support for live technical mentorship.

🗓️ Agenda

🛠️ Room 2 — Hackathon (Build Track)

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Full-speed build
On-site support + mentorship
⏰ Hard submission deadline: 3:00 PM

🎤 Room 1 — Panels + Demo Day

12:00 – 12:30 PM
Check-in & Networking 🤝

1:00 – 1:15 PM
Opening Remarks

1:15 – 1:30 PM
Seedance Keynote

1:30 – 2:00 PM
Panel — How AI is Disrupting Media

2:00 – 2:30 PM
Panel — Venture Investing in AI
(NEA · Llama Ventures · Alumni Ventures)

2:30 – 3:00 PM
Panel — AI Frontiers
(OpenAI · Anthropic · Gemini)

3:00 – 3:10 PM
Introducing our Judges

Wei Guo, General Partner at Uphonest Capital

Jack Feng, General Partner at Llama Venture

Perseus Y, Investor at A16Z

Thomas Joshi, Investor at NEA

Peter Pan, General Partner at Hat-Trick Capital

Warren Shaeffer, Partner at Pear VC

Xinyun Chang, Software Engineer at Gemini

JiaCheng Feng, Technical Staff at OpenAI

Eric Liang, AI Researcher

JiaZhou Gao, Technical Staff at Anthropic

Marry Zeng, CFO at NewsBreak

3:10 – 4:20 PM
Demo Day — 20 Teams (3 min each)

4:30 – 5:00 PM
Awards Ceremony 🏆

🔥 The Experience

Build alongside top founders.
Learn from industry leaders.
Pitch in front of decision-makers.

All happening at the birthplace of modern computing — the Computer History Museum — documenting the digital age from the abacus to AI, right in the heart of Silicon Valley.

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