Online Event
How to Build an AI Startup
Learn how a Founder Institute graduate is building Hyvop.
Date
Oct 28, 2026
Time
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Address
Online Event
You have years of experience in your industry and a problem you keep noticing, but you have never built a company. What usually stops people is the order: what to do first, what can wait, and what to skip.
This session has two parts:
Kais Neffati, a graduate of our Austria-France Fall 2025 cohort, shares what he learned building Hyvop: how he picked the problem, what he tested first, and how he found his first users.
Kasia Sadowska shows the AI tools founders use for early-stage validation, so you can test your idea before you build anything.
Register now and leave with your next three steps.
What You'll Learn:
Kais Neffati, a graduate of our Austria-France Fall 2025 cohort, shares what he learned building Hyvop: how he picked the problem, what he tested first, and how he found his first users.
Kasia Sadowska shows the AI tools founders use for early-stage validation, so you can test your idea before you build anything.
Register now and leave with your next three steps.
What You'll Learn:
- How a founder turned years of industry experience into a startup
- Which AI tools to use to test an idea before building
- How to check whether a problem is worth solving
- How to find and talk to your first users
- How to fit all of this around a full-time job
Featured Speakers:
Kais Neffati - Founder @ Hyvop: Software and cloud architect, previously at JCDecaux, VINCI Autoroutes and Ingenico. He is building Hyvop, an AI agent in Slack and Microsoft Teams that finds the owners of unused cloud resources, gets their approval and applies the fix.
Kasia Sadowska - Director @ Founder Institute Austria: AI product developer with over 10 years of experience building and leading tech startups across Europe. Mechanical engineer by background, she has co-founded ventures in mobility, compliance, edtech and sustainability. She helps founders build and validate products with AI and no-code tools.
Who Should Attend:
- Professionals with years of industry experience who have never built a company
- Employees with an idea they have not acted on yet
- Aspiring founders without a technical background
- Anyone who wants a clear sequence for starting an AI startup
Additional Resources: For more information about the investors, accelerators, incubators, and tech events available in Bulgaria, see our list of Startup Resources. Want to move through the first steps faster? Try our AI Skills for founders. Looking for more sessions like this one? Browse upcoming Startup Events.
About Founder Institute: The Founder Institute is the World's Largest AI-Native Company Builder, giving idea-stage, first-time founders, and employees making the leap to entrepreneurship the tools, global network, and proven methodology to build an AI-powered startup from zero to funding. Since 2009, our structured programs have helped over 9,000 founders across 100 countries raise more than $2BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 6 continents, our mission is to empower talented and motivated people everywhere to build impactful, AI-powered companies.
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