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Dave Fontenot

Started the largest hackathon in the world

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder

    2023

    HF0 is the program for repeat founders: HF0.com We take care of everything in your life so you can just focus on one thing: building your startup.

2019 - 2022

  • General Partner

    2019 - 2022

    One of the earliest checks in three unicorns: Ramp, Fabric, Pave.

2016 - 2018

  • Mindfulness Journey

    2016 - 2018

    Lived in monasteries in Thailand, China, and California.

2014 - 2016

  • Founder

    2014 - 2016

    Introduced early engineers to Robinhood, Calm, and more.

2013 - 2013

  • Founder

    2013 - 2013

    In 2013, I started MHacks, the largest hackathon in the world. Since then, > 10,000 hackers from across the globe have attended. In 2017, Apple acquired Workflow, an app that started at MHacks. Speakers such as Sam Altman (OpenAI/YC), Alexis Ohanian (Reddit), Brendan Iribe (Oculus), and Jeff Lawson (Twilio) have keynoted over the years. After starting MHacks, I traveled for years helping scale hackathons at 40+ major engineering universities. Then I started the online community Hackathon Hackers which is now home to over 50,000 engineers and designers: https://facebook.com/groups/hackathonhackers/ More recently, started Miami Hack Week and AI Hack Week.