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 or an innovation challenge.
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.
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
- A Quarta no Serena #61 é o Warmup do OpenAI DevDay Exchange 2026. ↗Past event
- Open Class #61 | DevDay Exchange Warmup com Codex Ambassadors ↗Past event
- [WEBINAR] ABM para startups: menos contas, mais venda ↗Past event
- NewHack Community Campinas #5 ↗Past event
- Quarta no Serena #60 | Edição especial com a Confraria do Empreendedor ↗Past event
- Quarta no Serena #60 | Open Class: Cultura se constrói, com Gabriela Jardim e Joel Lopes ↗Past event
- [WEBINAR] Reconstruindo uma empresa SaaS para a era da IA, de produto a GTM ↗Past event
- Quarta no Serena #59 | Community Night & Notion ↗Past event
- Quarta no Serena #59 | Open Class com Daniel Lima (AbacatePay) ↗Past event
- [WEBINAR] 13 agentes de IA rodando na empresa. E o organograma mudou junto ↗Past event
AI expands what a founder can build.
AI tools open up new ways to test ideas, develop products and organize work. At NewHack, the conversation starts with the business problem and what is worth putting into practice.
AI House Brasil
A meeting point for AI founders, developers and global technology brands in Brazil.
NewHack’s AI hub at Serena, in São Paulo. A residency for AI-first startups, gatherings and a content studio bring founders, specialists and companies together. Explore the program and ways to take part.
- 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
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, 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
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.
// leading NewHack and AI House Brasil
Ideas from the people building the ecosystem
What DevDay Exchange showed about putting agents to work
In São Paulo, more than 500 participants, case studies from QuintoAndar and iFood, and key members of OpenAI’s global team brought scale to a conversation about creating, coordinating, and evaluating work with AI.
artificial intelligenceWhat Formula 1 explains about the OpenAI and Oracle partnership
In his São Paulo keynote, André Lopes used the pit crew as a metaphor for the work it takes to make AI useful after the demo.
artificial intelligenceFrom Las Vegas to São Paulo: what Oracle brought to Brazilian companies
From AI World to Beyond The Club, how Oracle connects data, agents and applications to Brazilian business operations.
What is your business working through next?
Find a program for your startup or discuss a project for your company.
Frequently asked questions
NewHack brings entrepreneurs together, develops startup programs and delivers projects with companies. Its work connects mentoring, immersions, international missions, hackathons, content and artificial intelligence.
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 House focuses on building AI projects. Through mentoring, gatherings and challenges, we discuss applications in products, operations and business models. The work follows the context and resources of each initiative.
NewHack's initiatives include 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) and AI House Brasil (an AI-first startup residency).
Yes. NewHack supports companies with innovation initiatives, including the 2026 hackathon for Itaú’s internship program. The format and deliverables are defined around each project’s challenge.
It is NewHack’s AI hub at Serena, in São Paulo. The initiative combines a residency for AI-first startups, gatherings, mentoring and content. Visit the official website for the schedule, selection process and participation details.
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, with a background in venture capital.
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