Stanford's Hacker House for the Bay Area Ecosystem
A red barn full of founders. Eight builders live, ship, and break things together all summer — companies, research, patents, and the occasional 36-hour hackathon sprint.
About the house
The House
Farmhouse is a Stanford hacker house — a red barn in the Valley where founders build together over the summer. One roof, eight builders, and a shared bet that the best way to ship is side by side.
We run on the Code the Farm ethos: late nights, fast iterations, demo-or-die energy, and a door that's always open to the next interesting problem.
- 8
- Founders
- 8
- Companies
- 2
- US Patents
- 3x
- TreeHacks wins
Meet the cohort
The Founders
Eight builders shipping companies, research, and patents — under one roof this summer.
Stanford CS/AI + Math
Vice President, Stanford BASES (Startup Dev)
- 2x National Math Olympiad Finalist
- Built multi-agent systems for data extraction and analysis at an early-stage startup
- Inventor, SmartWalker (TreeHacks 2026): an AI rehab walker with computer-vision gait analysis, step count, and pressure sensing
- Built a Parkinson's classifier on a 2,105-patient cohort (KNN, 0.889 accuracy) with feature selection to improve fairness
Stanford Aerospace + Electrical Engineering
- Founded Romania's first functional satellite company, with two launches via SpaceX
- ISEF Grand Award for improving blended-wing aircraft stability and efficiency
- ex-RF engineering intern at Tarana Wireless
- Recruited onto an Airbus tender at the European Space Agency (ESA)
- Competed in physics and astrophysics olympiads
Stanford Computer Science (AI Track)
Vice President, Stanford BASES (Startup Dev)
- ex-Computer Vision Engineer @ dapster.ai
- US Patent No. 12,002,002 B1 — SmartCan Trash Routing System
- US Patent No. 11,950,613 B1 — GuacSaver Food Preservation System
- Inventor, SmartWalker (TreeHacks 2026): an AI-powered rehab walker
Stanford CS & Physics
Vice President, Stanford ASES
- Stanford AI Club Board
- VEX Robotics World Championships Qualifier x3
- NLP research for endangered languages at Harvard Phonology & Phonetics Lab
- ML for cancer prediction at UCLA Quantitative & Computational Biosciences
- TreeHacks winner, Poke Track
Stanford Computer Science (AI Track) & Philosophy
TreeHacks Sponsorships Director · ASES Director
- Conducting research at Stanford SAFE AI Lab
- Youth Delegate to the United Nations
Stanford CS + Econ
- Researcher at Stanford Multi-Robot Systems Lab
- ASES Executive Board
- First Place International DECA Champion
- Built an agentic social-life planner that hit 300 users within 36 hours at TreeHacks (won Poke track)
Stanford CS + Econ
- AI Analyst at Meteora Capital ($2B AUM hedge fund)
- AI/ML at Nexa Labs (YC S25), built a predictive cattle health algorithm
- Researcher at Stanford Emerging Market Technology Group
- F1 in Schools: 13th at Worlds, 2x US National Champion
- 3x first author on healthcare outcomes research
Stanford Physics & CS (AI Track)
VP of Technical Cohort, Stanford BASES
- Ex-ML Engineer @ Midas Intelligence — designed mathematical formal reasoning models
- Presented Machine Learning Heliophysics Research @ National NASA Conferences
On the calendar
Summer Events
Compiling the lineup
TentativeJUN 12
FRI
Move-In Day
The house opens for the summer and residents settle in.
JUN 19
FRI
House Warming
A kickoff dinner for the house and its earliest supporters.
JUN 26
FRI
Founder Mixer
Our first open mixer for the wider SF early-stage scene. Drinks, no agenda, new faces.
JUL 3–4
WKND
Rooftop BBQ
A relaxed holiday-weekend cookout, residents and friends.
JUL 10
FRI
Poker Night I
The first poker night of the summer. Founders, builders, and a few investors around the table, low-pressure and social.
JUL 17
FRI
FarmHouse Hackathon
FlagshipApplication-based and promoted across the BASES, ASES, and TreeHacks lists, bringing 50 of the top builders in SF together.
JUL 24
FRI
Investor Dinner
A curated, application-based dinner connecting top builders from the BASES, ASES, and TreeHacks networks with investors.
JUL 25
SAT
YC Startup School Afterparty I
A packed mixer for friends and founders passing through SF from across the country.
JUL 26
SUN
YC Startup School Afterparty II
A calmer session for a smaller, focused group of active builders.
JUL 31
FRI
Fireside Chat
A notable founder or operator speaks, open to a wider RSVP list.
AUG 7
FRI
Poker Night II
The poker table returns with a bigger field and more investors in the mix.
AUG 14
FRI
Open House Work Day
The office space opens to drop-in builders for the day, with investor office hours running alongside.
Got an idea for what we should run? We're taking suggestions.
Suggest an Event