3 Day Pre-Event AI Startup Incubator
A three-day pre-burn incubator for founders, builders, and operators who want to pressure-test their next idea in a room full of people who've actually shipped. Refine your pitch. Stress-test your model. Walk into the burn with momentum.
Stop giving away your best ideas for free. That thing you've been explaining over a campfire to someone in a kimono who keeps nodding but has no idea what a TAM is? It deserves better. It deserves a room full of people who understand unit economics, cap tables, and what it actually takes to get from napkin sketch to term sheet.
The burn is full of brilliant people having brilliant conversations that go absolutely nowhere.
Fireside chats done like the tech community does best: no fires or spangled hippies — real content for real entrepreneurs. Three days of structured mentorship, pitch refinement, and direct access to the kind of feedback that actually moves a business forward.
Your idea deserves better than a campfire conversation. Bring it here. Our Camp Apex founders are a cohort of VCs, Business Angels and Serial Entrepreneurs — with successful exits. They will be coaching participants on pitch structure, investor psychology, and what actually makes a funding committee say yes. This isn't theoretical. These are real investors ready to sign term sheets.
Each day is designed to take your idea further than the last. Arrive with a concept. Leave with a pitch deck, a validated model, and the attention of people who fund things.
Tear your idea apart before anyone else does. Structured frameworks for testing assumptions, identifying your wedge, and articulating the problem you're actually solving.
Refine your pitch with coaching from our founding VC partner. Then deliver it — for real — to a panel of invited investors who are here specifically to hear what you've built.
Incorporate feedback. Polish the deck. Finalise your go-to-market. Walk into the burn week with a plan, a network, and — if Saturday went well — a follow-up meeting in the diary.
On Saturday, we're bringing in a curated group of angel investors and VCs specifically to hear .build participants pitch. This isn't a networking drinks where you might corner someone between canapés. This is structured, scheduled, and serious.
Our founding VC partner will coach you through the morning. By the afternoon, you'll be pitching a live panel. By dinner, you'll know where you stand — and so will they.
Your .build registration includes full work access to Camp Apex for the main event week (18–25 May). No additional ticket required. Show up for .build on Friday, and you're in for the whole thing. One application, one payment, full access.
16 places remaining. Founder-grade feedback. Real investors. No fluff.