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Startup
Career Fair.

Startups fly over Ohio every day. On November 16 they land at Ohio State: 25+ startups and the Midwest's most driven students, two hours, one room.

Student sign up
Company sign up
Startups
25+
Monday
Nov 16
Pomerene Hall, 3rd floor
1–3 PM
One student walks a rainbow path toward a glowing mountain while a crowd in suits heads the other way.

Overlooked.

Say you're from Ohio State and most startups have already written you off. They never find out what you can build.

A young man in a striped sweater looks up at glass towers lit red.

Career fairs are broken.

A table between you, a line behind you, and a piece of paper that is supposed to be you.

The old way

  • Tables.
  • Long lines.
  • Paper resumes.
A student with a resume and a recruiter in a suit sit at opposite ends of a very long red table, a bowl of candy between them.

A table in the way

You on one side, a recruiter on the other, a bowl of candy in between. Nobody says anything real across it.

A records room buried in stacks of paper resumes and overflowing filing cabinets.

Your resume joins the pile

One page, handed across a table, read for six seconds if it gets read at all.

Rows of unsmiling applicants in identical grey suits, each clutching a black folder.

Everyone looks the same

Same suit, same pitch, same thirty seconds at the front of a long line.

A paper airplane folded from a resume flies through the dark, trailing red light.

So we threw out the paper.

No resumes. No tables.
Just people talking.

Two hours, one room. What to expect on the day.

Scan a badge, skip the resume

Every company wears a badge with a QR code. Scan it with your phone and you're connected. Nothing to print.

A phone scans the QR code on a badge with a beam of red light.

Meet the founders

25+ startups from YC, Techstars and Columbus's own scene, two hours of standing conversations.

Two hands shake in a streak of orange light.

Every major, every school

Open to students from Ohio and Midwest schools. You don't have to go to Ohio State.

A man in a white shirt walks through a beam of rainbow light, a folder under his arm.

Meet the people who build the startups.

Builders is a student-run nonprofit at Ohio State. We bring the startups to campus and put you face to face with the people who build them.

Sign up.

Builders

Monday, November 16, 1–3 PM. Pomerene Hall, 3rd floor, BuildX space, Ohio State.

The fair

  • Students sign up
  • Companies sign up
  • How it works
  • Questions
  • Terms

Builders

  • Home
  • Events
  • hi@joinbuilders.org

Student applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Deadline: Friday, November 13 at 11:59 PM ET.

Sign up

Getting started

A crowd of students with backpacks and bags, seen from behind, runs toward a glowing red doorway.
Builders

Who's coming

29 companies so far.

  • Backed byNVIDIA
  • Backed bya16z
  • Backed byTechstars
  • Backed byBuildX
  • Studium
  • Skuld
  • Tactical Triage Technologies
  • Caddis Technologies
  • Aeris Biosciences
  • Scalable AI
  • Petra Power
  • EndoEvolve
  • Atomic Factories
  • Immobileyes
  • Machina
  • Erebor Bank
  • KYROS Innovations
  • TeamClaws
  • Asher Informatics
  • NextGenTalent Lab
  • Trailhead Biosystems
  • Agile Ultrasonics
  • SpheriLine
  • Connectrate.ai
  • Radiant Robotics
  • Five Design and Development
  • Vein360
  • ForgeNest
  • Spire Labs

How it works

From sign-up to the room.

  1. A beige computer pours a river of red light across a starry desk.

    Step 01: Apply

    Apply on this page. Tell us what you're studying, what you've built and what you're looking for, and attach your resume.

  2. Step 02: Get reviewed

    We review applications on a rolling basis. The deadline is Friday, November 13 at 11:59 PM ET.

  3. A startup's team poses on gym bleachers like a 1992 basketball squad, QR badges round their necks.

    Step 03: Show up

    Monday, November 16, 1–3 PM at Pomerene Hall, 3rd floor, BuildX space.

Questions

What people ask before they sign up.

Who can come?+−

Students from Ohio State and schools across Ohio and the Midwest, in every major. You don't have to go to Ohio State.

When is the student deadline?+−

Friday, November 13 at 11:59 PM ET. We review applications on a rolling basis, so earlier is better.

Where is it?+−

Pomerene Hall, 3rd floor, BuildX space, Ohio State. Monday, November 16, 1–3 PM.

Does it cost companies anything?+−

No. There's no fee, and you can bring as many people from your team as you like.

When do companies set up?+−

11:30 AM to 1 PM. Students come in at 1.

What if our company can't be there in person?+−

You can still take part without a table. We'll send you the profiles of the students we accept, so you can reach out.