Deal Flow: NYC's First VC Hackathon

​📋 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

• ​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