Build your company. Find your community.
Meet mentors, learn alongside other founders and find opportunities for your startup. From Journey to AI House, we bring builders together with people who can help.
What are you building next?
Start with what you need: a decision for your startup, new markets, an innovation challenge or access to capital.
NewHack Journey
For founders working through product, sales or fundraising decisions. Two days of in-person content, founder exchange and context-matched mentorship.
ExploreInternational Mission
For entrepreneurs expanding their market perspective and international network. Curated immersions in Silicon Valley and China, guided by NewHack.
ExploreCorporate innovation
For companies testing ideas, engaging developers or building communities. Hackathons, open innovation and Developer Relations, from strategy through operations.
ExploreEntrypoint
Our investment arm: capital and hands-on support for early-stage startups.
ExploreAN ECOSYSTEM TO BELONG TO
Your next connection can start here.
NewHack brings founders, developers, investors and companies together through a community that keeps meeting, learning and building. Join a conversation and find the people, knowledge and opportunities for your next step.
Meet the community
Weekly gatherings, Open Classes and conversations with people building companies.
↗02Develop your startup
Focused experiences with Journey and ongoing mentoring through Plano180.
↗03Expand your network
International immersions with curated visits and conversations.
↗04Build with companies
AI House, hackathons and partnerships connecting brands, founders and developers.
↗MEET EVERY WEEK
Quarta no Serena
Our weekly community gathering at Serena Cafeteria in São Paulo. Founders, developers, investors and people interested in entrepreneurship meet to exchange experiences, share what they are building and make connections beyond a business card.
Alongside Quarta no Serena, our calendar brings together Open Classes, workshops, webinars and gatherings with partners. Choose an event, check its registration details and come meet the ecosystem.
Follow our Luma calendar ↗Follow NewHack on Luma to hear about new events. Each event has its own registration.
Our 10 latest gatherings
- Quarta no Serena #57 | Q4'26 October Start · Community Night ↗Past event
- Quarta no Serena #57 | Openclass: Além do Tanque com Agnes Veeck ↗Past event
- [WEBINAR] Do zero à aquisição, o que importa nos primeiros anos de uma startup ↗Past event
- Quarta no Serena #56 | Product, IA & Comunidades com iMasters + Product Arena ↗Past event
- Open Class | Gestão de Produto na Era da IA com Arthur Castro ↗Past event
- [WEBINAR] Seu cliente pediu. Isso vira prioridade? Como priorizar feedbacks, aquisição e retenção sem perder a visão de produto e negócio. ↗Past event
- [HAPPY HOUR] Conexões que movem | NewHack Campinas ↗Past event
- RISE Launch VIP Dinner - NewHack & Monking | São Paulo ↗Past event
- Workshop de IA · Aula 5 | IA, startups e escala com Rodrigo Schiavini, Magalu Cloud e Pierre Ortega da @onveloz ↗Past event
- Quarta no Serena #55 | After Fórum de Startups + Esquenta Startup Weekend Martech ↗Past event
AI doesn't replace the founder. It multiplies what they build.
We see artificial intelligence as the decade's biggest accelerator of entrepreneurship. That's why it runs through every product: from Journey mentorships to hackathon challenges, from missions to investment.
AI House Brasil
A meeting point for AI founders, developers and global technology brands in Brazil.
A residency to find, incubate and accelerate AI-first startups, created by NewHack with Entrypoint in over 400 m² at Serena, in São Paulo. Up to 15 startups per cohort work in the space for 3 to 6 months, with mentorship, access to capital and an in-house content studio.
- 3 to 6 month residency at Serena
- mentorship, capital and market access
- in-house Sky Capsule and content studio
The ecosystem in motion
Mentoring, pitches and conversations that continue after the event. A glimpse of NewHack gatherings.
We organize hackathons for companies and brands
NewHack organizes online, in-person and hybrid hackathons. We combine consulting, facilitation, production, platform, outreach and Developer Relations around each challenge. OpenAI, Qualcomm and Itaú are among the companies that have worked with NewHack.
→ Organize a hackathon with NewHack
Knowledge shared with the NewHack communityBuilt by people who founded, invested and connect markets
Rodrigo Terron
Founder · NewHack and Entrypoint
Co-founder and former CEO of Shawee, he served as COO and CEO of Rocketseat after the companies merged in 2020. He launched NewHack in 2024 and is now a founder of NewHack and Entrypoint, while also leading AI House Brasil. An OpenAI Codex Ambassador, he connects companies, developers and entrepreneurs through corporate innovation, communities and entrepreneurial education.
Paulo Braga
Founder · NewHack and Entrypoint
12 years in venture capital and corporate venture: he was part of Wayra, Vivo's CVC and one of Brazil's first accelerators, and led corporate venture at Eurofarma and Grupo Boticário. At Entrypoint, he runs a R$ 40 million fund backing up to 30 pre-seed startups, with the pragmatic view of someone who knows how early-stage companies become investable.
// leading NewHack, Entrypoint and AI House Brasil
Ideas from the people building the ecosystem
A founder looking for the next step, or a company looking for innovation?
There's a NewHack door for your moment.
Frequently asked questions
NewHack is an entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem powered by artificial intelligence. We connect founders and companies through immersions, international missions, hackathons and investment.
Start with an event on our Luma calendar. Quarta no Serena is our weekly gathering in São Paulo, alongside Open Classes, workshops and webinars. The ecosystem connects these conversations with mentoring, startup programs, international immersions and corporate projects. Each initiative has its own format and participation conditions.
AI runs through all of our programs: from Journey mentorships to corporate hackathon challenges, from international missions to investment through Entrypoint. We see AI as the decade's biggest accelerator of entrepreneurship.
There are five: Journey (an in-person founder immersion), the International Mission (immersions in the world's leading innovation hubs), Corporate innovation (hackathons and open innovation for large companies), Entrypoint (our investment arm) and AI House Brasil (an AI-first startup residency).
Yes. Companies such as OpenAI, Qualcomm and Itaú have already worked with NewHack on corporate innovation initiatives, startup connections and access to talent.
It is the AI-first startup residency created by NewHack with Entrypoint, in a space of over 400 m² at Serena, in São Paulo. The program finds, incubates and accelerates AI projects: up to 15 companies per cohort work in the space for 3 to 6 months, with mentorship, access to capital and an in-house content studio. Learn more at aihousebrasil.com.br.
It is NewHack's mission agenda in partnership with AASP (the São Paulo Lawyers Association), created for the legal community: São Paulo, Silicon Valley and China, with itineraries that translate AI, startups, venture capital and digital infrastructure into legal practice. Learn more at missao-aasp.newhack.vc.
NewHack is led by Rodrigo Terron, a founder with a zero-to-exit track record, and Paulo Braga, from Entrypoint, with a background in venture capital.
Let's talk
Tell us who you are and what you're looking for. Our team will point you to the right door in the ecosystem.