NYCFC: Mid-April Update, NY Tech Week Announcement, and Supademo's Tech Stack
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This edition:
Announcing our 2026 Tech Week event
Joseph Lee of Supademo’s Tech Stack
Upcoming events and job openings
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Tech Week Announcement: NY(SEA)! 🛥️
On June 3rd (Wednesday of NY Tech Week), we're hosting a sunset cruise with 200+ NYC founders. Think city views at sunset, awesome DJ set, cold drinks, and the best founders in NYC all in one place.
Details:
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Time: Boarding 6:00 PM, depart 6:30 PM, dock 9:30 PM
Audience: Active founders, funded Seed to Series B
Early bird tickets are officially out now and spots are limited so register asap!
🛥️ Get tickets here! 🛥️
Founder Tech Stack: Joseph Lee, Co-founder and CEO of Supademo
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Joseph Lee is the Co-Founder and CEO of Supademo, an agentic demo automation platform used by 200,000+ users and 3000 paying companies across 100+ countries. He previously founded Freshline, a Techstars-backed ecommerce platform for food distributors, and was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Based in New York City, Joseph has been an active member of NYC Founders Club since 2024.
Vibe Coding & AI Development
Claude Code – Team-wide development, marketing, and growth platform
“Our entire team uses Claude Code, not just in the technical fashion, but across growth and marketing as well.”
“We’ll use it for A/B testing changes to our website. We’ll build playbooks. So for example, we did a full gallery of us tearing down and marking up top product-led growth onboarding experiences from top companies. We had a big searchable interactive gallery. We built all of that in Claude Code. Put our learning academy or university in Claude Code.”
OpenClaw – Self-hosted AI agent with database and workflow access
“We also use OpenClaw. So we have an OpenClaw instance hosted on DigitalOcean that has some access to our database. So it can do different functions for us. For example, if I’m like, hey, can you extend this person’s trial by fourteen days — it’ll go back and forth with me and it’s like, oh, this person has this workspace, is this the one you want to extend?”
“Everything’s hooked up into Linear and Slack so that we can talk in Linear and Slack and it actually goes out and creates the draft PR or does the action and does different things. And we just verify and then merge it.”
Sales Automation
Rather than relying on traditional productivity tools, Joe builds custom AI automations that handle the systematic work he knows he might let slip.
Fathom – Meeting transcription and recall
“I’ve recorded all my meetings on Fathom historically. It’s just that it’s already plugged in and I’m used to it. That’s the reason I use it.”
Zo – AI-powered workflow automation for follow-ups
“One thing I built is an automation that goes in and checks my calendar every single day on what demos I had over the last seven days. And it will see if I followed up with that person, and it has an MCP to Fathom, my meeting recorder. So it’ll actually read the transcript. And if I haven’t responded yet, it’ll make the draft for me.”
“At 8 AM every day, it sends me all the draft links of what I need to send. Like, this customer, this customer, this customer. Gives me the draft. And then I click the draft and I review it and tweak and send.”
Looking for more tools on building out CRMs, content marketing, or when to use Claude vs ChatGPT? Read the full tech stack here.
Coming Up 🔥
Events:
🗽 How the Best Companies Use AI - Engineering Lessons & Hacks by Databricks & NYC Founders Club: Thurs, Apr 16 [TOMORROW]
Featuring speakers:
Vrijen Attawar, Co-founder and CEO of CareerSpan
Rob Cheung, Co-founder and CEO of Zo
Stephen Orban, SVP, Product Ecosystem & Partnerships at Databricks
A Better Way to Build Agents: Workflows: Mon, Apr 20
NYC B2B: AI Engineers x Devs Meetup: Wed, Apr 22
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, Apr 28 (members only)
NYC B2B: FinTech Founders & Investors Meetup: Wed, Apr 29
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, May 6 (members only)
🗽 (N)YC Alumni + Founder Friends Monthly Happy Hour: Wed, May 13
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Wed, May 20 (members only)
🗽 NYCFC Founders Dinner: Tues, May 26 (members only)
🗽 NY(SEA): Tech Week Founder Boat Party: Wed, June 3
Founder Opportunities:
Blue Ridge Labs Founder Fellowship: Application due May 3rd
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Email jordan@nycfounders.club to have us feature your event!
Roles at NYCFC Companies 👩🏻💻
Kickoff is hiring a Provider Growth Manager and other roles across growth and engineering.
GhostEye is hiring a Founding GTM and Founding Engineer (Applied AI).
Wayo is hiring a Founding GTM/Sales Lead.
Supademo is hiring a Senior Full Stack Engineer and a Junior Onboarding Specialist.
Cobalt ID is hiring a Chief of Staff and a Staff Software Engineer.
Zingage is hiring a Head of Talent Engineering, a Strategic Finance Lead, Founding Engineers, and SWEs.
Invoice Butler is hiring a Founding Engineer.