Founders House Summer Builders Day

☀️ SUMMER BUILDERS DAY ☀️There's never been a better summer to build. Hosted by Founders House in partnership with MongoDB and Ramp, Summer Builders Day brings founders and technical builders together for a hands-on afternoon of AI building, LLMs, prompt engineering, and community collaboration.We'll kick the day off with a technical panel featuring speakers from MongoDB, AWS, and Google on building AI agents and developer tooling. Come ready to learn what's new and what actually holds up in production.Then Vitalii Dodonov, co-founder of Stan, on building a founder brand online. Stan is backed by Gary Vaynerchuk and Steven Bartlett and is doing over $40M a year, so this is not theory. Vitalii will walk through the operating system: what to publish, how often, and how to run it without it eating your week.After a short break, you'll hear from five pre-selected founders who will pitch their startup to a panel of investors.We'll wrap up the day with cocktails, conversation, and light bites on the terrace.SCHEDULE1:45 – 2:00 PM · Doors OpenRegistration2:00 – 3:00 PM · Technical PanelSpeakers from MongoDB, AWS, and Google on AI agents, developer tooling, and what's next for startups. Panelists will include Samadnya Kalaskar (MongoDB), Mat Gillen (AWS) and Hashim Syed (Google).3:15 – 4:00 PM · Building Your Founder Brand OnlineWith Vitalii Dodonov, co-founder of Stan. Stan is backed by Gary Vaynerchuk and Steven Bartlett and does over $40M a year. Vitalii will give you the operating system for building a founder brand online: what to publish, how often, and how to keep it from eating your week. Plus hands-on build time in our breakout workshops.4:15 – 5:30 PM · Founder Pitch CompetitionFive Founders House founders pitch live. The audience votes and gives direct feedback. Judges, including investor Ema Vidak Friedman and David Ongchoco of Comma Capital, will share their insights and announce our winner for the evening.5:30 – 7:00 PM · Happy Hour presented by AWS StartupsJoin us on the 7th Floor Terrace to connect with founders, investors, operators, and builders as we close out the afternoon.We can't wait to see you there!Make a Day of It ☀️Want to pitch your startup? Apply hereWant to spend the day with the Founders House community? Join us earlier in the day for a morning of yoga followed by coworking from the Founders House space before the Summer Builders Series begins.If you'd like to cowork from Founders House for the day, book your visit here: www.foundershouse.nyc/visitFounders House is NYC's first work and wellness club designed for dreamers building at scale. Combining coworking, wellness amenities, and founders focused social programming all under one roof, Founders House is creating a new kind of home base for ambitious builders seeking both connection and balance.Founders House is currently accepting applications. Learn more and apply at www.foundershouse.nyc.MongoDB is the leading modern database platform empowering developers to build flexible, scalable, data-driven applications. Check-out the MongoDB for Startups for Atlas credits and Voyage AI tokens, technical expertise, and dedicated support on the world's best modern, AI-ready data platform.Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Their all-in-one solution combines corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, procurement, travel, and treasury tools with built-in controls and intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. Since Ramp launched in 2019, they've amassed over 70,000 customers. These range from family farms and day 1 startups to global enterprises like Shopify & CBRE. Ramp today enables $200B+ in purchases annually and has saved their customers $12 billion and 27.5 million hours of manual work.AWS Startups is home to over 350,000 startups globally and the majority of the top 100 startups worldwide use AI services on AWS. With nearly 20 years of experience supporting hundreds of thousands of founders, AWS for Startups provides technical guidance, business mentorship, and go-to-market resources to help you reach your next milestone whether you're ideating an MVP or on track for an IPO. The team comprises former founders and CTOs, venture capitalists, angel investors, and mentors who help today's founders navigate challenges and opportunities.