📋 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 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 Schedule 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Breakfast, Mixer and Team Formation 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM: Intros and Demos 10:30 AM - 4:30 PM: Hacking + Lunch 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM: Judging 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Demos and Winner Announcement Prizes 500 USD cash prize for the winning team. 150 USD cash prize for the team with the best content put out on social media during the hackathon. 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. Bettina Sosa is co-founder and CEO of Yaven, building a local-first AI workforce for independent businesses. Arjun Padmajan is CEO of Roundtable, where AI agents connect and work together. Erzsébet (Elisabeth) Ábrám - Community Architect at the residency. Akhil A. is a Staff Security engineer at Collectors, securing companies through their AI adoption, M&A and IPO Compliance journey. 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. Attendance if first-come first-serve. Once we reach capacity, we won't be able to let you in. Main Sponsors SeedLegals is your one-stop legal platform from idea to Series A and beyond. Incorporate your Delaware C Corp or convert your LLC to a C Corp, raise with SAFEs, manage your cap table, give stock options to your team, do a priced round, all on one platform, for way less than paying lawyers, with an amazing team to help. Roundtable is a data platform that lets your AI agents talk to each other. Nicrron × Ninoo provides a complete stack for working with AI. One account, one balance, and one API key give developers access to 65+ AI models from 10 providers, with routing, failover, and caching handled for them. With zero retention of prompts and completions and no markup on model costs, Nicrron helps teams build faster while staying in control of their data and costs. Community Sponsors akta.pro provides company data, news, and signals via API or MCP for agentic VC workflows — including deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio monitoring. Block Convey is an AI reliability and observability platform for AI agents. It helps teams see what an agent is doing across model calls, tools, retrieval and decisions, identify where it fails, and improve it. Hosts localhost:nyc: Making NYC the biggest startup ecosystem in the world. Tracy Huang: VC Lab and CEO of Interlink IQ the residency is a global residencies for deep tech founders. Apply here. Olivia Iarmak - Researcher | Meta Reality Labs. ConnNext is a next-gen mobile app and community built for career growth. Visionbrew helps people be 2 places at once with 3D AI avatars. Pulse NYC AI - A community, incubator, and venture fund built for founders, researchers, and technologists shaping the future of AI in New York City. Matthew Pisinski - Fellow @ Columbia Startup Lab.