January AI Agents Week-long Hackathon

​Join for a chance to win up to 50k in investments from Beta Fund and Gravitational Ventures, mentorship opportunity, Google swag, and free admission to the Seattle Startup Summit April 1-2, 2026!

​r/AI_Agents is the largest online AI Agent community in the world featuring over 220k members and over 2 million monthly visitors.

​This January, we're hosting our sixth ever week-long hackathon.

​This Hackathon is Online

​​​Team submission form: https://forms.gle/3bQmKav4tuGSUYg89

​​Rules

​​​Hack time: 1/24 to 1/31 10am

​​​Team Size: 1 to 3

​​​Goal: Build an AI Agent that can scale into a real business, no vertical limits.

​​​Prizes:

• ​1st place

  • ​Interview for a 30k investment from Gravitational Ventures

  • ​Potential for acceptance into AI Explorer program by Beta Fund

  • ​Mentorship opportunity with Ishaan Gupta, with recommendation to Google Cloud credits

  • ​Free admission to Seattle Startup Summit

  • ​Google-branded swag

• ​2nd & 3rd place

  • ​Free admission to Seattle Startup Summit

  • ​Google-branded swag

​​​How is judging done?

​​​- We are partnering with the AI Consortium to provide judging by a wide breadth of leaders in AI. Judges will provide ratings of 1-5 on your project and the project with the highest average wins. Judge comments and feedback will be shared after the event.

​​​Team submission form: https://forms.gle/3bQmKav4tuGSUYg89

​​​- submit team name

​​​- submit team member information

​​​- only the team lead should submit this

​​​- only the team lead will receive an email if you win

​​Judges

• ​Nithin Mohan, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

• ​Saurabh Yergattikar, ebay Inc.

• ​Devang Gaur, Adobe

• ​Harish Janardhanan, Fareportal inc

• ​Chinmaya Madan, Microsoft

• ​Ishaan Gupta, Google

• ​Sai Therala, Opentable

• ​Roland Abi, Octane

• ​Andy Humeniuk, Dub

• ​Arnab Sarkar, Upstart

• ​Shujaatali Badami, Independent Researcher

• ​Shikhar Mathur, Airbnb

• ​Siddharth Gupta, Amazon AWS

• ​Shivendra Srivastava, Amazon

• ​Raakesh Premkumar, Chewy Inc

• ​Sujata Sridharan, Bolt

• ​Ritu Singh, ex-IBM

• ​Aishwarya Shah, Independent Researcher

• ​Bhargav Jaiswal, General Motors

• ​Rachit Malik, Microsoft

• ​Gayathri Balakumar, Capital One

• ​Siddharth Kodwani, DoorDash

• ​Deven Chawla, Oracle

• ​Prateek Punj, Microsoft

• ​Aveek Karmakar, Google

• ​Andronica Klaas, Meta

• ​Sam Tmothy, Sysfleet Tech Solutions

• ​Prasad Sundaramoorthy, Nordstrom