Builders Club Winter Term has a focused series of Tuesday workshops and founder dinners for people who are actively building and want real momentum through the winter.
Over six Tuesdays, a small group of builders will come together for lunch-hour workshops, intimate founder dinners, and hands-on build sprints in between.
This isn’t theory. It’s not networking.
It’s learning from people in the trenches, shipping real work, and staying grounded when winter drags on.
If you’re serious about building, this is for you.
Matt builds real-world technology that actually ships. He’s the Co-Founder and President of Finite Robotics, working on orchard robotics to solve hard problems in food production. After nearly two decades in electric mobility and sustainability, Matt now applies deep systems thinking to agriculture — and still gets his hands dirty as an apple grower. Builder energy, zero fluff.
Humza ****is the founder and CEO of Automax.ai, a Y Combinator (F25) company building AI-native property valuation technology. Automax is tackling one of the biggest bottlenecks in real estate and mortgage lending by combining AI agents with modern inspection workflows to deliver fast, compliant, data-driven appraisals at scale. A University of Waterloo–trained engineer, Humza represents a new generation of deeply technical founders building real infrastructure in complex, regulated markets.
Michael ****is the co-founder and CEO of Vidyard, one of Canada’s most successful B2B SaaS companies, and a General Partner at Garage VC, where he invests in early-stage technical founders. A Y Combinator alum and University of Waterloo engineering graduate, Michael has spent over a decade building, scaling, and advising product-driven companies, with portfolio wins including Groq. He brings a rare combination of operator experience and investor perspective, with deep insight into building durable companies from zero to scale.
Mike is a founder and product builder who’s spent years turning messy, human problems into usable software. He’s the Co-Founder of Elderella, an AI-native platform simplifying elder care, and a longtime coach to early-stage founders in Waterloo. Practical, product-first, and focused on helping builders avoid obvious mistakes.
Brad is a deeply technical builder who’s been shipping since before it was cool. He’s Head of Engineering at Beeper (Automattic), previously co-founded Beeper, and was one of the first engineers at Pebble, where he helped build the OS from scratch. If you care about craft, scale, and how things actually work, you want Brad at your table.
Hongwei is the co-founder and CEO of Mappedin, a company quietly powering indoor maps for malls, airports, offices, and major venues around the world. He’s been building the same company for over a decade, scaling from a three-person founding team to global impact. Calm, long-term, and relentlessly customer-driven.