ClawCompLLC

We didn't wait for permission, for experience, or for the perfect moment. We saw where the world was going, bet on ourselves, and built. That's exactly the kind of founder ClawComp exists to back. Because it's exactly the kind of founder that built it 🦞

Then ClawWeek arrived. Four days in Cambridge none of us will forget. The proof is in what came after: five of the eight teams are still connected to the Link ecosystem today, in investment, job offers, and partnerships with portfolio companies. Every all-nighter was worth it.

Six months ago, the three of us had never built a company. Last month, we hosted one of the most successful hackathons in @Link_Ventures history. Here's how 🦞

Three best friends from Ireland won every hackathon they could find at home. So they flew to Boston for the big leagues, out-built teams from around the world, and won ClawWeek. Then there's what they actually built. Gliomach went after the biggest thing holding AI agents back: trust. Agents hallucinate, and in healthcare or finance a hallucination isn't a bug, it's a lawsuit. Their answer was to stop hoping agents behave and start proving it. Every agent action gets compiled into formal logic and verified in math before it's allowed to happen. If it breaks the rules, it never happens. No prompt injection gets around it, because the check lives in math, not language. They couldn't find a benchmark good enough to measure agent hallucinations, so they built their own, then crushed it. Early every morning. Whiteboard until 3AM every night. Teaching us Irish slang the whole way. Link Ventures wanted them in the office before they'd even packed up. Adam McIntyre, David Remenyik, and Simon Lasak. Champions of ClawWeek 🦞

It was never really about the $10,000. ClawWeek was never a hackathon. It was a startup education. Four days where some of the best young builders in the country learned to actually build a company, from people who have done it at the highest level. They learned to sell and scale from the founding CRO of HubSpot. They learned to build at the frontier from the CEO of a company fresh off a $200M raise at a $1.4B valuation. Plus product and community from two more founders at the top of the game. Then there was the part we did not expect. Teams competing for the top prize helped each other anyway. Sharing setups. Debugging each other's agents at midnight. One night the whole room crowded around a TV for a World Cup game, then got right back to building. Strangers from different schools and countries became a real community in four days. ClawWeek is over. The ClawComp community is just getting started 🦞

@NWRLeon @voicerunnin @PeterDiamandis @DaveBlundin @alexwg @salimismail Let’s gooooo

@voicerunnin ran it's first ad! So of course it was on Moonshots podcast hosted by @PeterDiamandis and featuring @DaveBlundin, @alexwg, and @salimismail. For those considering podcast ads, here are some brief learnings: 1) Making high production content is easier than ever. You need a nice camera and mic + Claude Code. Claude Code will use ffmpeg to align your mic audio with the camera audio, then use Hyperframes from @HeyGen to create some nice overlays and animations. 2) When you're recording, learn to let go. You'll never like every part of every take. Take a bunch, pick the best, and go with it. 3) We got a surprisingly amount of signups and demo requests. I now have a better appreciation for why creators charge so much. 4) Podcasts won't let anyone run ads on their podcast! This is kind of obvious in retrospect, but you really have to convince them that your content will be well received by their listeners. They understand that ads intrude on their listeners, and so having highly relevant ads is important! Happy to answer other questions people might have!

A team of three students just won $10,000 for stopping AI agents from hallucinating by grounding them in math. That's a wrap on ClawWeek. 🥇 Gliomach takes first ($10,000). Adam McIntyre, Šimon Lašák, and David Remenyik. 🥈 DevBrain, second ($5,000): an orchestration layer that streamlines communication across a dev team, made fully speech-controlled with VoiceRun. 🥉 Beacon, third ($2,500): a real estate agent that prices homes from images, catching things like roof and water damage, and sharpening its own accuracy over time. The night before final pitches, every single team pulled an all-nighter. We stayed up with them, going through every pitch until the sun came up. The dedication was unreal. This was everything we hoped ClawComp would be 🦞

"If the average person around you doubts what you're trying to build, if they tell you to think smaller, that's how you know you're onto something worth pursuing." Brian Elliott, CEO of Blitzy, Boston's newest unicorn at a $1.4B valuation, gave our teams 45 minutes today on what it actually takes to build an AI startup as a young founder. His definition of success stuck with everyone. It's not a before and after. It's waking up every day to work on a hard problem you care about, next to people you love being around. Earlier, @KjHardrict , CEO of Talvy, broke down how to tell your story as a founder. The ups, the downs, and how they shape what you build and who you build it with. Then we walked the teams to the Charles to clear their heads, grabbed a round of Red Bulls, and headed back in for the all-nighter. Final pitches tomorrow at 10am 🦞

A lecture got so good today that people walking past the room stopped to listen through the doorway. It was about sales. The man giving it: @markroberge , the founding CRO who scaled @HubSpot from $0 to $100M, now a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. Our teams called it one of the best talks they've ever heard. Earlier, John Werner opened the day. Founder of @imaginationxyz, the AI forum he runs at @MIT and @Davos, and an MD at @Link_Ventures . He showed the teams the network they're now plugged into, the kind most builders never get near. Two days down, two to go 🦞

We flew in university teams from 5 countries to compete for $10,000+ The strange part: it doesn't feel like a competition. Builders who've spent weeks developing AI agents remotely, finally in one room. Teams that met this morning are already debugging each other's setups and swapping ideas. Some brought startups months in the making. Others scrapped their plan on arrival and started building things that weren't possible last week. The prize is the excuse. The room is the point. Day 1 of 4 at ClawComp. Can't wait for the rest 🦞

We’re off to a blazing start with @ClawCompLLC and we’re proud it's happening right here at Link Ventures! 🦞 Today was Day 1 of a four-day in-person build sprint, bringing together some of the most ambitious young @openclaw builders. The program was founded by Jack Blundin, Yash Bolishetti, and Luke Tsiaras - three college students who saw the opportunity in Hermes and OpenClaw and seized the moment to found the community from scratch. Teams flew in from across the world, settled into our first-floor space in Cambridge, and got to work. @DaveBlundin kicked us off with a talk on why right now is the most important moment in the history of technology, and why today’s AI builders are the ones who will define the future. @NWRLeon, Co-Founder of Voicerun (@voicerunnin), put on an epic voice AI demo! Safe to say the energy in our space was exactly what we hoped for. Day 1 is in the books. More to come this week!

Kicked off my morning with @ClawCompLLC who is hosting cracked @openclaw and Hermes builders at @Link_Ventures. I started with a strong reminder that AI capabilities are compounding faster than most people have internalized, and this is absolutely the time in history to act with urgency. I asked the room who the youngest builder was. Someone raised their hand and said “17.” These kids don’t need convincing! Shoutout to Jack Blundin, Yash Bolishetti, and Luke Tsiaras, three college students inspired by OpenClaw, who built this community for agentic AI builders. This optimism and teamwork is exactly the energy we need right now!

@voicerunnin and @ClawCompLLC gonna have a good time!

@elijahmuraoka_ @tomoji_ai 10 new hires for the Tomoji team

Just bought a few Mac studios @tomoji_ai I heard they were good for agents What should I download first?

@NWRLeon @Techweek_ @voicerunnin @Link_Ventures This is gonna be awesome! 🙌

@Techweek_ is coming to Boston! @voicerunnin , @Link_Ventures , and @ClawCompLLC are teaming up to welcome them with a Voice Agent Build Afternoon on May 27, 2-5pm. Two tracks: 1) Corporate Track: bring a real business use case, and the VoiceRun team will help you build a working voice agent by 5pm. 2) Hacker Track: bring your laptop, your lobster or Claude Code/Cursor/Codex. Prompt your way to a working voice agent in a couple hours. VoiceRun: code-first voice agent development platform. Link Ventures: leading Boston AI venture firm backing @mercor_ai , @blitzyai , @voicerunnin , and more. ClawComp: Northeastern student-led OpenClaw org, ClawComp.net. Spots are limited to 50 registrants. Link to apply in comments.