Sponsor The Build

Reach the talent. Fund the future.

Sponsor packages fund the entire prize pool. We don't take a cut of the prize money — every dollar a sponsor commits goes to participants, prize cash, and operational costs of running The Build at WePlay Inglewood. In return, sponsors get the most concentrated source of Black/Brown technical talent in the country and first-look access to every winning team.

Why sponsor The Build

The audience

5,000+ paid Culture Silicon members. Cohort 1 Founders 100. Public day-pass attendees from every major US market. Every Build is the highest-density assembly of overlooked Black/Brown technical talent in the country.

The deal flow

The Founders Fund offers $50K SAFEs to Grand Prize teams. Founder-tier sponsors get first-look access to every winning team — warm intros, term-sheet preview rights, optional co-invest. The next 100 Stripe-style outcomes are getting funded out of WePlay Inglewood.

The brand

Sponsors aren't buying logo placement. They're buying association with culture — Grammy-level production, Inglewood IRL, the language of the streets translated to institutional grade. Every Build is filmed, photographed, archived. Your brand lives in the Hall of Champions permanently.

The technical concentration

Average Build has 200 builders shipping 48 hours straight. Your engineers ship alongside them as mentors. Every conversation is a recruiting touch. Hiring out of the Build pool routinely closes 6-figure offers in the room.

Three sponsor tiers

Founder = year-long. Builder = single event. Tools = lightweight on-ramp. All include on-site engineer + mentor seats.

Founder Sponsor

$50,000

Lock the year

·Year-round logo placement on /build hero
·5-minute keynote at every Build event for the year
·Exclusive prize naming rights — "[Sponsor] Best Use Of [Tech]"
·4 on-site engineers + mentor seats per event
·Permanent Sponsor Wall placement on /build/sponsors
·First-look access to all winning teams + warm intros
·Reach into 5,000+ Culture Silicon members via co-branded email
·4 Builds per year of activation

Builder Sponsor

$15,000

Lock a Build

·Logo placement on the event page + Sponsor Wall
·90-second demo at kickoff
·Tech recommended in the build resources package
·2 on-site engineers + mentor seats
·Sponsor Wall placement for the year
·Direct intros to 3 top-finishing teams
·Reach into 5,000+ Culture Silicon members via newsletter

Tools Sponsor

$5,000

Sponsor a Build

·Logo on the Sponsor Wall
·API credits offered to all teams during the Build
·1 on-site engineer + mentor seat
·Listed in the build resources package
·Reach into the Culture Silicon member roster

Events to sponsor

Lock a single event (Builder/Tools tier) or the full year (Founder tier).

Summer 2026

Cohort 1 Graduation Build · Open Stack

WePlay Inglewood + livestream

SPONSOR THIS EVENT

Fall 2026

Music + AI · Sovereign Catalog Build

WePlay Inglewood + livestream

SPONSOR THIS EVENT

Winter 2026

Sovereign Stack · Local-First Tools

WePlay Inglewood + livestream

SPONSOR THIS EVENT

Spring 2027

Open Stack · 12-Month Anniversary

WePlay Inglewood + livestream

SPONSOR THIS EVENT

Talk to us

Sponsor inquiries: sponsors@culturesilicon.com. Custom packages available for partnerships beyond these tiers (multi-year, exclusive category, naming rights). We respond within 48 hours.

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