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.
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
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! 🙌
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.
5/ 📊 @databricks challenge: Agentic Scientific Discovery
🥇 Helix (UCLA)
🥈 BactroGen Research (Brown University)
🥉 Opal Labs (ETH Zurich)
Congrats to all three teams!
4/ 🏠 @Realpage challenge: Rental Housing Law Navigator
🥇 Covenant (MIT)
🥈 Rent Goodman (UC Berkeley + TUM)
🥉 Stackwise (KU Leuven)
Congrats to all three teams!
3/ 🎙️ @ElevenLabs challenge: The AI Apprentice
🥇 Protégé (Otaniemi Upper Secondary School)
🥈 Sensei (TU Wien)
🥉 TorchBearer (MIT)
Voice AI built in 24 hours. Congrats!
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
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/
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















