Sponsors and partners
Put your brand in the room where AI gets built.
Back build fridays, meetups and Germany's biggest AI hackathon with a venue, food, drinks, budget or your product.
Backed by
Who will you reach?
Builders, founders and engineers who show up in person, across our local chapters and online.
10,000+
community members worldwide
3M+
people reached on LinkedIn only
4.9/5
20
local chapters running or launching
Impact drop: one of our events
2M+ LinkedIn impressions in two weeks
Around our January 2026 hackathon in Hamburg. Partners did not buy that reach: it came from being part of a room people wanted to talk about.
400+
builders at Germany's biggest AI hackathon
1,000+
applications from 40 countries
covered the hackathon in its Hamburg briefing
What can you sponsor?
Every format we run is open to sponsors, from one build fridays to a whole hackathon, and so are our newsletter and channels.
A free, recurring work session. Bring your laptop, ship your own thing and get help when you are stuck.
build fridays
Talks and live demos on getting more out of the Cursor editor, from people who use it daily.
Cursor meetup
Builders share how they work with Claude Code, with demos and time to compare setups.
Claude Code meetup
A community meetup for developers building with OpenAI Codex.
Codex meetup
A hands-on session where you build with coding agents next to people doing the same.
Agentic coding studio
A relaxed coffee meetup to swap what is working with AI agents and what is not.
Agentic coffee
For people building robots and AI that acts in the physical world, from hobbyists to engineers.
Robotics and physical AI club
Bring your laptop and get OpenClaw running with help from people who already have.
OpenClaw setup night
Practical AI use cases for work and life, for beginners with no experience needed.
AI day-to-day
An evening on building with voice AI, with a hands-on look at what the tools can do.
ElevenLabs voice AI meetup
Builders show what they are working on and get honest, friendly feedback.
The roast rounds
A relaxed summer get-together for the community, with food and drinks.
Summer bbq
Beyond the room
Stay in front of the community between events, in the places members already read.
A placement in our weekly newsletter.
WhatsApp community
A short, relevant post in the groups where members talk between events.
Discord
An announcement where our members hang out online.
A post on the page behind most of our reach.
Other social media
Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok.
How does sponsoring work?
You bring something the room needs. We make sure the room knows it was you.
What you bring
Venue
A room for an evening or a weekend, from an office floor to a hall.
Food
Pizza for a build session or catering for a whole hackathon.
Drinks
Coffee for the morning, soft drinks and beer for the evening.
Running costs
A budget that covers what an event costs to put on.
Products or merch
Credits, hardware or swag for people to try and take home.
One of these is enough to start, and you can combine them.
What you get
- Your brand on the Luma event page, including the cover image
- Your website tagged in the event description
- A thank-you from the hosts in the intro round
- Your banners in the room
- Your merch and product in the audience's hands
What do top community builders say about working with us?
Community and developer relations leads at Cursor and CodeRabbit.
The hackathon we did together was a big, complicated project, and it ran as if Alex and Vlady had been doing this for years. The results were strong. Impressive what these guys are building.
Ben LangCommunity, early team member
- Notion: Head of Community (first 15 hires)
- Angel investor in 50+ startups
We've done a lot of events together. A hackathon, a founder dinner, and plenty more. People were fully in it every time, start to finish. That doesn't happen over and over by accident. If I were building a community, I'd want Alex and Vlady running it.
Hendrik KrackDeveloper Advocate
- n-aible: co-founder
- Aparavi: enterprise AI
What do sponsors ask us?
What can we sponsor?
Any of our formats: a single build fridays, a meetup series, or a hackathon. You can back one evening or a whole season, in one city or several. Between events, you can also appear in our newsletter and community channels.
Can we sponsor the newsletter or your channels?
Yes. You can take a placement in the dam brief, our weekly newsletter, or a short, relevant post in our WhatsApp community, on Discord, on our LinkedIn page and on our other social media. We keep these posts few and useful, so members keep reading them.
Can we give a venue, food or drinks instead of money?
Yes. A room, the food or the drinks for one evening is often the most useful thing a company can give. A budget for running costs is welcome too, and you can combine them.
What do sponsors get?
Your brand on the Luma event page, including the cover image, and your website tagged in the description. The hosts thank you in the intro round, your banners go up in the room, and you can hand out merch or let people try your product.
Who comes to your events?
Builders, founders and engineers who use AI every day, from our community of 10,000+ members. Many are regulars who come back every few weeks, and our biggest hackathon brought 400+ builders into one room.
Can people try our product or take our merch?
Yes. Bring credits, hardware or swag, and tell us what you want people to try. At build sessions people open their laptops, so a product they can use on the spot works best.
Can we sponsor events outside Hamburg?
Yes. Hamburg is where we started, and build fridays also runs in Berlin, London and San Francisco. Local chapters in other cities run their own events, so tell us where you want to show up.
How much does it cost?
It depends on the event and on what you bring. Hosting one build fridays is a different conversation from a hackathon track. Tell us what you have in mind and we will suggest a fit.
How do we start?
Fill in the form at the bottom of this page, or email [email protected]. Tell us what you could bring and which events or channels interest you, and Alex or Vlady will reply with a fit.
Prefer email? Write to [email protected].
Back the builders. Grow with them.
Your support keeps our events running. In return, your brand stands with a loyal crowd that comes back every few weeks, next to the teams already backing us.
Want to build your own community? See community building.