Harvard Builders Club

Home for those who Dare to innovate.

The first community of Harvard's MS/MBA Engineering Sciences alumni: builders, entrepreneurs and tech leaders.

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The Builders Club is a community of Harvard Business School and SEAS alumni of builders, entrepreneurs, and tech leaders.

We are the first community of Harvard's MS/MBA Engineering Sciences program alumni. It is home for those who dare to innovate.

annual retreats
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speakers
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participating firms
17+
companies founded by members
10+

Retreats

Every fall, builders from every MS/MBA generation spend three days together in Palo Alto.

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2026 Builders Retreat

October 2–4, 2026 · Palo Alto, CA

What we did

  • MS/MBA Pitch SessionMembers present their startups to the community for feedback and help
  • Builders FeastDinner for all MS/MBA generations
  • Winning Writing WorkshopWith Glenn Kramon
  • Fireside ChatWith Adam Selipsky
  • Strategic Calm LabBreathwork and an ice bath
  • Industry HuddlesSmall-group conversations on the trends shaping top industries
  • Networking dinner with leading VCs
  • "First 100" panelOur own Builders on what matters most at the very beginning of a startup

Speakers

  • Adam SelipskyCEO @ Helix (KKR) | Former CEO of AWS
  • Glenn KramonPulitzer Prize-winning | New York Times Editor
  • Chuck McGee IIIExecutive Coach | Iced Viking Breathworks
Fireside chat
Fireside chat
Robes on, before the ice bath
Robes on, before the ice bath
Winning Writing Workshop
Winning Writing Workshop
Saturday group photo
Saturday group photo
In the audience
In the audience
Lunch
Lunch
Networking dinner
Networking dinner
Strategic Calm Lab
Strategic Calm Lab

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2025 Builders Retreat

September 19–21, 2025 · Palo Alto, CA

Speakers

  • David SchmaierPresident and CPO @ Salesforce
  • Ashton KutcherGP @ Sound Ventures
  • Alison WagonfeldCMO of Google Cloud
  • James BuckhousePartner @ Sequoia

Highlights

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Group photo"The Architecture of Story" talk

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2024 Builders Retreat

September 27–29, 2024 · Palo Alto, CA

Speakers

  • Sarada PeriFormer Obama speechwriter; Founder, Peri Communications
  • Udi LedergorChief Evangelist & former CMO at Gong
  • Arnab BoseChief Product Officer, Workforce Identity Cloud at Okta
  • Jess LeePartner at Sequoia Capital; Co-Founder & CEO of Polyvore
  • Anneka GuptaChief Product Officer, Rubrik; Lecturer, Stanford GSB

Highlights

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Participating Firms

Investors and partners who have joined us at our retreats.

  • Kleiner Perkins
  • Sequoia
  • Lama Partners
  • Ubiquity Ventures
  • Greylock
  • CRV
  • Index Ventures
  • Coatue
  • Vocation Capital
  • Greenfield
  • Vine Ventures
  • Khosla Ventures
  • Gunderson Dettmer
  • Menlo Ventures
  • BoxGroup
  • a16z
  • BCV
  • More firms to come; list being collected.

Member Companies

MS/MBA builders start companies, and build inside some of the most interesting ones.

Founded by members

Nominal Topline Pro Uplift Microhome Lumian Lightsource Quotient Gradient AI Blitzy Altro Health Robby & more…

Where members work

Sierra NVIDIA Anthropic & more…

Member Made

Our video series: members on what they're building, and how.

Episode 01 Tauseef Khan '22 Co-founder & CTO, Lumian 1:08

An AI-native Amazon agency that pairs agentic workflows with expert human operators. Tauseef talks about designing agentic workflows and where humans belong in the loop.

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Members in the Press

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Team

The people behind the Builders Club. Hover or tap a card to flip it.

Yarden Halperin

Gen 'XX Co-Founder

Yarden Halperin

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Amit Berger

Gen 'XX COO

Amit Berger

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Tomer Y. Avni

Gen 'XX Co-Founder

Tomer Y. Avni

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Georgia Messinger

Gen 'XX Community

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