For Sponsors

Put your brand in
the builder room.

AI Startup Rodeo is a one-day, single-track AI × Bitcoin builder event in downtown Austin. One room, all day, no parallel sessions — a sponsor session runs in front of the entire audience.

Oct 30, 2026Friday · 8 AM – 5 PM
Q Branch200 E 6th St · Austin, TX
Single trackOne room, one stage
Edition 02Second edition · Austin Tech Week
Become a sponsor Press kit & assets
Who’s in the room

The audience mirrors the stage.

Edition 1 put 18 speakers on stage — almost all working engineers and technical founders, including speakers from Chaincode Labs and contributors to Bitcoin Core. The room draws the same three groups — the mix the room is built for:

  • ~60%Full-stack AI buildersEngineers and technical founders shipping agents, tooling, and AI-accelerated products. They come for demos and working code.
  • ~25%Founders & operatorsStartup founders and operators — including the Bitcoin teams building on Lightning and payment rails.
  • ~15%Investors & sponsorsThe people who fund, hire, and buy from the builders — in the room to find what ships next.

Edition 02 targets.

The format

No breakout rooms.
No competing sessions.

Full roomEvery talk, demo, and sponsor session runs in front of the whole audience — not a fraction of it.
Demos, not slide decksThe day is builder demos and technical talks. Your presence sits next to working code, not booth noise.
A full day togetherChef-catered breakfast and lunch are part of the ticket, so the room stays in the room — conversations included.
Partners

Who’s already in.

Edition 2 — current partners
Q Branch Spiral Synapto PlebLab Bitcoin Builders Club Bitcoin News Alby Zaprite React ATX

Q Branch · Spiral · Synapto · PlebLab · Bitcoin Builders Club · Bitcoin News · Alby · Zaprite · React ATX

Edition 1 partners
Chaincode Labs Unchained OpenAgents TabConf The Bitcoin District Fewsats

Chaincode Labs · Unchained · OpenAgents · TabConf · The Bitcoin District · Fewsats

The lineup

Who’s on stage.

Announced as they lock in. Edition 1 ran 18 speakers, almost all working engineers and technical founders.

Ben Carman

Ben Carman

Developer · Spiral

TBA

Speaker to be announced

TBA

Speaker to be announced

Assets

Press kit & brand files.

Logos, event photos, the fact sheet, boilerplate copy, and the brand palette — the same pack the press uses. Kept current, so anything you pull from it is the live version.

Download the kit (ZIP, 3.3 MB) Open the press page

Talk sponsorship.

Tell us what your team wants from the room — a session, a demo table, or presence — and we’ll send options.

Become a sponsor See the event