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From first hack to first check. Helping AI builders find teammates, mentors, capital, and distribution

Joined April 2026
Ideas have never been rare. But an idea alone has never changed the world. Talent and teamwork do. HN¹² is Hack-Nation's scout program: 12 scouts at the world’s top universities, finding builders before anyone else does. Meet them here and discover their story.
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Kick-off at 8! 🚀 Tomorrow, 50 teams take the leap from hackathon projects to building actual companies. 12 weeks of mentorship, peer feedback, startup credits & investor exposure. The next Hack-Nation Venture Lab cohort starts now. Next stop: Demo Day. #HackNation #VentureLab
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7/ Special Awards ⭐ Memes & Quotes Award: Navneet Kishan 🎉 Creativity Award: Mercature by Glendon Chinn (UT Austin) 🚀 Go Viral: Ngan Nguyen Congrats to every team that built with us! 🙌
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6/ 🧬 Buffalo Initiative x @OpenAI challenge: AI Atlas for Rare Diseases 🥇Phenotech (ETH Zurich) 🥈 Slipstream (Carnegie Mellon) 🥉 Disease Constellation (Oxford University) AI for patients and researchers in monogenic rare diseases.
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5/ 📊 @databricks challenge: Agentic Scientific Discovery 🥇 Helix (UCLA) 🥈 BactroGen Research (Brown University) 🥉 Opal Labs (ETH Zurich) Congrats to all three teams!
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4/ 🏠 @Realpage challenge: Rental Housing Law Navigator 🥇 Covenant (MIT) 🥈 Rent Goodman (UC Berkeley + TUM) 🥉 Stackwise (KU Leuven) Congrats to all three teams!
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3/ 🎙️ @ElevenLabs challenge: The AI Apprentice 🥇 Protégé (Otaniemi Upper Secondary School) 🥈 Sensei (TU Wien) 🥉 TorchBearer (MIT) Voice AI built in 24 hours. Congrats!
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2/ 🌍 @WorldBankGroup challenge: Small AI for Development Three tracks, three winners: 🩺 Health: Vitamin Bob (Carnegie Mellon) 🌾 Agriculture: Dure. (University of Seoul) 🏝️ Tourism: YOLOWISATA (Tecnológico de Monterrey) Congrats to all teams! #SmallAI #AIforGood
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1/ 🏆 Have you heard? The awards are out! 24 hours. 5 challenges. These are the winners. 👑 Grand winner: Vitamin Bob Meet all challenge winners in this thread 🧵 Next hackathon → hack-nation.ai/
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16 hubs. One weekend. 3,000+ builders. 🌍🚀 #hack7 is heading to the Finals. 🗓 Oct 10 · 12:00 ET 🌍 Online & open to everyone 🏆 Challenge winners + the Hack-Nation #7 Grand Winner 👉 luma.com/d5spcs8l Spot yourself? Tag your hubmates 👀 #GlobalAIHackathon #HackNation
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