

Iterate x Columbia AI Club Hackathon w/ Anthropic, Lovable, Hathora and FOMO
⚡ Build Sprint with Lovable, Anthropic and Hathora
Join us on Thursday, December 4th, for a high-energy 4-hour sprint with 150 top hackers.
Brought to you by Iterate, AI Club Columbia, and FOMO with the help of:
Hathora - the easiest way to deploy voice models across the globe with low-latency. Only place to get QwenOmni3 in production via API. Get your bonus credits until 12pm ET Thursday here!
Lovable - a no-code AI platform that helps anyone turn ideas into full-stack applications, beautifully and effortlessly.
Anthropic - advanced language models designed to be reliable and aligned. Their recent model Opus 4.5 is the best ever at software engineering.
Pareto - Pre-seed funding for your startup across the globe.
Perle - human-in-the-loop data labeling platform that delivers high-quality training datasets for AI teams.
Standout - the agent representing the best talent in tech. It finds the right job opportunities and gets you to the decision-maker.
You’ll have 4 hours to transform an idea into a working demo, no slides, no fluff, just code.
🗓️ Event Details
📍 Location: Columbia Business School, New York City
📅 Date: Thursday, December 4th
👥 Participants: 150 (teams of up to 5)
🧑💻 Format: In-person only
All participants must apply and be accepted individually. We’ll open a Discord server ahead of the event to help you form teams.
🏆 Prizes & Perks
We’re giving out cash prizes, AI credits, swag — and exclusive mentorship opportunities with our partners. Whether you’re aiming to win or just to ship something ambitious, top teams will walk away with:
• $3k prize
• AI credits & partner-merch
👩⚖️ Jury
Nathaneo Johnson - Co-founder @Series
Nitika Sankhyan - President @ Tiba Columbia
Yasin Dus - Founder @Synoptic
Sezer Kemer - Founder @Azops
Ivan Vrkic - CTO @Celltype (YC W26)
Katie Chen - Content creator