Why Sponsor?
Put your product in front of top-tier developers
Reach hundreds of selective engineers, data scientists, and product builders using your APIs and developer tools for a full weekend. We give qualified sponsors the ability to set up sponsored track prizes, to attract participants to build on top of your stack.
- Engineering
- 58.38%
- Product
- 22.43%
- Data
- 10.81%
- Design
- 8.38%
OpenAI · Google DeepMind · Google · Meta · Apple · Netflix · Amazon · TikTok/ByteDance · Tesla · Uber · Salesforce AI Research · Vercel · Rippling · Applied Intuition · Cartesia · EvolutionaryScale · Casca (YC S23) · Observe Inc. · Zipline · Supermemory.ai · Fetch.ai · Truefoundry · Zoom · Autodesk · Shopify · Samsung · Intuit · Credit Karma · Oracle
Build real-world impact use cases with your product
Unlike almost every other hackathon, teams here build solutions for real problems with mission-driven organizations — the perfect bedrock for generating impact use cases built on your product and technical stack that you can point to afterwards. Our groundedness in real problems makes it far more likely that participant teams become long-lasting projects and startups.
Media and recruiting
We have had extensive press coverage, and we put sponsor information in our press releases and social media outreach. You also get direct access to a room of technical talent, many of whom are open to recruiting.
Support AI for good
Help build socially impactful AI solutions, and back the people using technology for public benefit.
Sponsorship Tiers
Hack for Social Impact is fiscally sponsored, so sponsorships are made as charitable donations through our fiscal sponsor and are eligible for 501(c)(3) tax treatment. Your finance team can confirm what applies to you.
- Acknowledgement during the hackathon
- Logo on website and event flyers
- Recognition in press release
- 1 preliminary judging spot
- Small logo on website
- Acknowledgement during the hackathon
- Logo on website and event flyers
- Recognition in press release
- 2 preliminary judging spots
- 5 min speaking slot
- 1 final round judging spot
- Medium logo on website
- Acknowledgement during the hackathon
- Logo on website and event flyers
- Recognition in press release
- 2 preliminary judging spots
- 15 min speaking slot
- 1 final round judging spot
- Sponsor-branded prize track
- Tabling throughout the hackathon
- Access to audience list (name, role, LinkedIn)*
- Access to participant resumes*
- Post-hackathon user feedback session
- Large logo on website
- Everything in Platinum
- Named title sponsor of the hackathon
- Opening keynote (up to 20 min)
- Post-event pilot pairing with winning teams
- First right of refusal for 2027
* Only with participant consent.
Custom packages available: prize tracks, in-kind credits, or multi-year support. Get in touch
How Your Sponsorship Helps
Prizes & grants
For winning teams to implement their solutions with partner organizations.
Accessible venues
That attract diverse participants and offer space for innovation.
Food & refreshments
To keep participants fueled during the hackathon.
Travel support
For non-local nonprofit partners to participate as judges and mentors.
Talk to us about sponsoring
Tell us which tier interests you, or what you have in mind if none of them fit. We can also put together something custom.