Where Great Products Are Born
TechCrunch has been uncovering some of the best tech creators and programmers through Disrupt Hackathons with some products seeing great success beyond the event, like GroupMe which was created overnight and ultimately acquired by Skype for $80M.
This year, we are hosting the hackathon simultaneously with the Disrupt SF conference and inviting hundreds of people from around the world to participate in our Hackathon to show us how they would solve various challenges through the creative production and application of technology. And true to TechCrunch form, we will have plenty of sponsored prizes, including a $10,000 grand prize for the top hack team.
Prizes
$142,025 in prizes
TechCrunch
Overall Winner
• $10,000
Runners Up
(2)
Kinship
(3)
First Place
• $10,000 USD
Second Place
• $5,000 USD
Third Place
• $2,000 USD
Humana
(3)
First Place
• $10,000 USD
Second Place
• $5,000 USD
Third Place
• $2,500 USD
InterSystems
(2)
IRIS Data Platforms
• $4,000 USD
IRIS for Health
• $4,000 USD
Plaid
• $10,000 USD
United Airlines
Best Use of United APIs:
• Round trip ticket voucher, eligible for anywhere United flies, for all members of the winning Hackathon team. (Up to $2,525 per voucher)
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
You must apply for a ticket to attend the hackathon here before you can register on Devpost.
Judges

Santosh Ankola
Head of Product/TechCrunch

Donna Boyer
VP, Product/StitchFix

Marily Nika
Machine Learning Product Manager/Google

Tom Lianza
Director of Engineering/CloudFlare

Angela Yee
Senior Product Manager/University of Michigan, Ross school of Business

Brian Gill
SVP Technology/Nordstrom

Farnaz Azmoodeh
Sr. Director of Engineering/Snap Inc.

Emily Wang
Head of Product/Spoke

Shilpa Ramamurthy
Product Manager/Slack

Haje Jan Kamps
Consultant/Previously VP of Marketing at Bolt

Liza Gurtin
Product Manager, Messaging/Slack

Carl Perry
Developer Lead/Square

Millicent Walsh
Sr Engineering Manager/Target

Rima Kanguri
Director of Engineering/Credit Karma

Catherine Shu
Writer/TechCrunch

Bryce Durbin
Graphic Designer & Illustrator/TechCrunch

Lance Peterson
VP, Product/August Home
Judging Criteria
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Scale of Awesome (1-5)
Judges will be focusing on creativity, cleverness, demonstration of product and that deep-down sense of “Whoaaaaaaa“
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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