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Applications for the RAISE Hackathon 2026 are now open. Join a high-signal build sprint inside RAISE Week and ship a working demo with the right room around you.

Prizes, mentorship, and momentum await.
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RAISE Hackathon data overview
8000+
Applicants
922
Teams
€250k+
Award Prizes
223
AI MVP's built
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Co-organized by our partner

Co-organized by Cerebral Valley, an AI ecosystem that organises and curates high signal events across global hubs. Their events platform makes it easier for builders, founders, and operators to find what is happening and where the most relevant conversations are taking place.

As our partner for RAISE Hackathon, Cerebral Valley helps amplify the programme, deepen community participation, and bring additional signal to the room. This partnership supports what matters most in a build sprint. A stronger network, better discovery, and more momentum for the work that gets built.
With 100,000+ founders, engineers, and operators across 130+ countries, CV sits at the center of the global AI landscape. From flagship hackathons and private salons to large-scale enterprise activations, CV partners with the most important companies in AI—including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and more—to launch, showcase, and scale the next wave of technology
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Hackathon partners

Key tracks and partners

RAISE Hackathon is shaped with the support of track sponsors and technical partners bringing real-world infrastructure, tools, and expertise into the build sprint. From cloud and deployment to observability, AI audio, and open-source ecosystems, each partner helps participants build faster, test stronger, and turn ideas into working solutions.

Main sponsor

Cursor is an AI-native code editor built for developers who want to ship faster with deep codebase understanding, intelligent autocomplete, and multi-file editing powered by frontier models like Claude and GPT-4. It brings AI directly into the development workflow, so teams can write, debug, and refactor code through natural language rather than manual effort.
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Track sponsors

Vultr is a global cloud platform designed to simplify infrastructure for developers and businesses. Its AI-ready Cloud GPU offering supports model training, inference, and compute-intensive workloads, with flexible deployment options and globally available infrastructure built for speed.
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Crusoe is an AI-native cloud platform with NVIDIA and AMD GPU infrastructure built for model training, inference, and high-performance compute vertically integrated from energy to cloud so customers can focus on building, not infrastructure.
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Google for Startups and Google DeepMind offer equity-free accelerator programs for AI-first startups, providing direct access to Google's AI experts, technical mentorship, and business growth workshops.
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More than a sprint

Why participate?

A focused build sprint for teams that ship. Work on real challenges, collaborate with top talent, and build in a room designed for speed, signal, and momentum.
Cash prizes
Compete for $250,000+ in prizes and build with cutting-edge tooling from our sponsors.
Build together
Join a high-signal builder room, engineers, designers, and founders shipping together under real constraints.
Learn fast
Unlock exclusive access to detailed insights on participating startups and talents, ideal for strategic partnerships and collaborations in the AI ecosystem
Go further
Pitch live. Turn your demo into momentum, prizes, visibility, and follow-on opportunities.
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Our 2025 winners

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Alexandre Pasquiou
CEO & Co-Founder, Neuralk AI
Ben Luria
CEO & Co-Founder, Hirundo
Vincent Molina
CEO & Co-Founder, pyannoteAI
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A focused challenge bringing together elite engineers and ambitious teams to build fast and prove faster. In 24 hours, ideas become demos — and demos become momentum.
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8 & 9 July 2026
Le Carrousel du Louvre,  Paris
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