BBS x Ramp Hackathon Info Session
BBS x Ramp Hackathon: Automate the Old Way
Make it to the finals and you're guaranteed an interview at Ramp.
Finance still runs on spreadsheets, email chains and receipts stuffed in a drawer. Ramp, the $44B fintech rebuilding how companies spend, wants Berkeley students to fix that.
Berkeley Business Society and Ramp are hosting a three-round hackathon. The challenge: pick an outdated financial workflow and rebuild it for 2026 with the newest AI tools.
This info session is where it begins. Come to:
Get the official challenge brief
See how Ramp's Applied AI team builds agents that do real finance work
Meet Ramp engineers, recruiters, and find teammates
Learn about internships and new grad roles at Ramp
Food and swag provided
Pick your lane
Design it: pitch a product people would actually use.
Build it: ship working code.
The rounds
Video pitch. Sell us your idea.
Go deeper. Walk us through the product or show us the code.
The final. Judged live in person by Ramp engineers.
The stakes
$2500 in prizes. Finalists present directly to Ramp's team, and final-round participants get guaranteed interviews with Ramp.
Who: All Berkeley students, any major, any experience level. Designers and engineers alike, pick your lane.
Ramp is rebuilding how companies manage money. Corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, procurement, travel and accounting automation all live in one platform that saves businesses time and money. Founded in 2019, Ramp is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the U.S. Its engineers ship ambitious products across fintech, AI, data and infrastructure, and they automate the kind of tedious finance work this hackathon is about.
Learn more here: https://ramp.com/