Welcome to this week’s Beta Update 👋
*Note: You’re receiving this update because you previously registered for a Beta University–hosted or co-hosted event via our Luma calendar and opted in to receive communications from the hosts.
📅 Coming up
Saturday 5/9: MeDo Vibe Coding AI Hackathon: Silicon Valley
You'll join a room full of builders who think as you do — product-minded, user-obsessed, and ready to turn ideas into reality. In teams of 2–4, you'll pick a real problem, describe your app to Medo, and ship a working version before the session ends.
Saturday 5/2: Agent Forge AI Hackathon
Build an AI agent or a swarm of agents that solves a real-world problem.
Your Forge agent should be able to gather intelligence, autonomously process information, build with professional-grade tooling and live on the web. You’re free to come up with your own idea. The only requirement: your project must be built on the partner stacks below and deployed live by demo time.
Beta Fund AI Super Hackathon
The Builders of Tomorrow AI Super Hackathon brought together top AI founders and investors. We have broken down the core conversations, panel insights, and winning projects to provide an actionable guide for building and selling AI products today.
In the media disruption panel, operators from Pika, NewsBreak, and OpenArt discussed how AI is shifting the creative bottleneck. With generation becoming commoditized, the future of AI tools relies on persistent memory and personalization, allowing creators to focus on identity and judgment rather than prompting skills.
The founders panel provided a raw look at early-stage Go-To-Market strategies.
Founders from SUN (Speedrun), Cascade (Speedrun), Butterbase (SPC), and Brev.io shared actionable advice on selling solutions before fully building the product through founder-led sales. They emphasized that execution speed and a deep understanding of root customer pain points are the only real differentiators in a crowded market.
Finally, our breakdown of the top hackathon demos—including Judges’ Choice winner Crash Forensics, Real Estate Agent, and Robotok. Audience Favorite Brandling, and LeadExpress AI—reveals a defining trait among top teams: an absolute focus on specific, high-value industry problems. From end-to-end real estate video automation to analyzing physical evidence from car crashes, the standout teams did not waste time looking for a problem. They applied mature tech to solve expensive status quos.
Beta Fund Builders Club
Join the Builders Club, the official Discord hub for future Beta Fund Hackathons.
We are centralizing a high-signal community of founders and engineers. This isn’t just another chat server—it is the direct pipeline to our investment team and ecosystem partners.
What’s on the line:
Direct Investment: On-the-spot investment checks for exceptional projects.
Hardware & Capital: High-tier prizes including Cash, Mac Minis, and more.
GTM Support: Direct access to Beta Fund’s resources to help you scale and move from hack to startup.
If you are building at the edge, join us to connect with mentors, find co-founders, and secure the backing your project needs.
Cheers,
Beta University Team
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