FOMO (noun)
A referral-based network of founders, builders, and investors across San Francisco, New York, London, Munich, and Paris.
As Boston Tech Week ends and New York Tech Week kicks off, we figured that now is the perfect time for our return. New events we’re hosting during Tech Week and reflections on past events await.
Let’s go.
Upcoming Event.
BY FOMO:
GNOMI Gen Z Growth Challenge @ GNOMI NYC HQ
Calling all high-agency content creators!
On June 5-6, GNOMI, an AI news agent, is challenging creators to make GNOMI impossible to ignore for Gen Z. Creators who can execute ideas that can move culture and drive adoption can compete in one of two tracks: Best Content Creation or Best Growth Strategy. $4K and an interview for first place, $2K and an interview for second.
Member Highlight.
Vivian Zhou, CS junior at Stanford who has shipped a moderation model to 200M+ TikTok users, worked at Stripe, V11, and Felicis Ventures, built her own fashion-tech startup, and won 6 hackathons in 2 years. Her interest in the consumer space started with doing growth for startups at Stanford. Now, she’s building in the consumer creator space, solving the problems creators run into every day. I mean, the range speaks for itself.
Hackathons in Review.
And now onto a review of a few of our previous hackathons you attended:
Boston Protocol: Hacking Healthcare: 9 teams. 4 challenge tracks.
The twist: every team had to include a patient, an engineer, and a clinician.
FOMO organized Boston Protocol on May 27th at BASE-X, as part of Boston Tech Week, a selective, one-day healthcare AI hackathon built around a founding constraint most events skip entirely: the people most affected by the problem had to be in the room building the solution.
The day opened with a keynote from Dr. Leo Anthony Celi of MIT, who challenged every builder to ask three questions before writing a line of code: Who is at the table? Is this a problem or a symptom? Who could this harm? Teams then worked with open-source digital health infrastructure from Stanford Biodesign's Spezi framework, with office hours from clinicians, a health policy expert, and a VC running in parallel during the build.
The jury included Oura's SVP of Science, the founder of a startup just acquired by Oura, a Harvard AI professor and active founder, the lead content and partner marketing at Nabla, and a health policy commercialization expert. First place went to Saphina Squad for an ADHD evaluation app that restructures the fragmented, subjective process parents navigate into a clinician-ready workflow. Second place went to Kinsight for CareCircle, a shared AI app giving families one real-time view of a recovering loved one's health, with an AI care agent embedded directly in the group chat.
Three projects, Kinsight, CareWave, and Chronicle, are on FOMO's radar for investor introductions and Foundry follow-up.
Medeloop Health Research Case Competition: 28 Stanford researchers. 19 projects submitted. 8.7/10 average NPS.
FOMO brought together Stanford medical researchers and clinicians to run original studies on the Medeloop Clinical Research Platform, an AI-native analytics tool for real-world evidence generation. In a week, participants produced work that read less like hackathon submissions and more like publishable research.
First place went to Wendy Yin and Natalia Khoudian for their analysis of public insurance access to GLP-1 receptor agonists. Their methodology was described as dissertation-quality, with direct implications for federal obesity legislation. Second place went to Arthur Gontier, a solo Stanford researcher who replicated a landmark surgical opioid paper and found a counterintuitive result: the dose-response relationship strengthened in the post-prescribing-limit time.
The consistent theme across participant feedback: time compression. Researchers completed in hours what would normally take months. One participant mapped 100+ unique treatment pathways in a single session.
The talent in the room was exceptional, and several participants are now on FOMO's radar for investor introductions and future programs.
The Lovable Vibecoding Workshop with AI Snack Club × FOMO. 35 builders. 3 hours. Zero prior code.
In partnership with Lovable and hosted by AI Snack Club, Elsa led a hands-on workshop in NYC that put 35 women in front of a blank canvas and said: build something you actually need.
No predefined tracks. No demo day theater. Just a room full of women: designers, architects, data scientists, and working professionals who left with a working product.
In three hours, they shipped. Financial tools. Workflow automations. Design utilities. Personal problem-solvers that had been sitting on the backburner for months, waiting for someone to say you can just build this now.
This workshop just made everyone realize that the gap between having an idea and having a product is smaller than anyone told them.
This community grows by referral. You know who to send this to.
— The FOMO Team
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