GIS Engineering Club | ImpactHack 2026Themes: Beginner Friendly, Education, Social Good. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 8 Oct 2026deadline | 4 days ago | |
ForgeHacks | ForgeHacks Online 2026Themes: Beginner Friendly, Lifehacks, Machine Learning/AI. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 10 Oct 2026deadline | 5 days ago | |
ML Empowerment Foundation | ML Empowerment Build Challenge 3.0 - ($400,000 in prizes!)Themes: Beginner Friendly, Machine Learning/AI, Social Good. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 10 Oct 2026deadline | 19 days ago | |
Hack Club | Graphiques Innovation ChallengeThemes: Enterprise, Fintech, Productivity. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 10 Oct 2026deadline | 23 days ago | |
BioCataalysis | UnivaBio ($40,000 in prizes)Themes: Beginner Friendly, Health, Social Good. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 13 Oct 2026deadline | 1 month ago | |
Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust | RiseFor 15 to 17 year olds. Lifetime support including scholarships, mentorship and funding for people who show exceptional promise. One of the few programmes open before university. | Fellowship | Global | · | 2 months ago | |
Interact | Interact FellowshipCommunity and fellowship for young technologists working on ambitious projects, selected annually. Best suited to students already building in public. | Fellowship | Remote / US | · | 2 months ago | |
776 Foundation | 776 FellowshipTwo year, $100,000 fellowship from Alexis Ohanian's 776 for builders under 24 working on climate and other hard problems, on the condition you skip or pause university. | Fellowship | Remote / global | · | 2 months ago | |
Mercatus Center | Emergent VenturesFast grants and fellowships for moonshot ideas that advance progress. No age limit and a strong record of backing very young people. Applications are always open. | Fellowship | Remote / global | · | 2 months ago | |
Neo | Neo ScholarsFellowship for outstanding computer science students, with mentorship from senior engineers and founders, funding, and a route into starting a company. | Fellowship | US / remote | · | 2 months ago | |
Null | Null FellowsFellowship for exceptional builders under 21, offering funding, community and mentorship for people already shipping things. Applications are read on a rolling basis. | Fellowship | Remote / global | · | 2 months ago | |
Thiel Foundation | Thiel Fellowship$200,000 over two years for people aged 22 or under who want to build a company instead of finishing a degree. Highly selective, applications run year round. | Fellowship | Remote / global | · | 2 months ago | |
Z Fellows | Z FellowsOne week programme for young technical builders, with a $10,000 grant and introductions to leading Silicon Valley founders. Rolling applications, cohorts run frequently. | Fellowship | Remote / San Francisco | · | 2 months ago | |
Vencapital | Vencapital FellowshipStructured programme training people from non traditional backgrounds for careers in venture capital, with placements and investor mentorship. | VC programme | Remote / global | · | 2 months ago | |
Included VC | Included VCFully funded global fellowship for people from backgrounds under represented in venture capital. Months of training, mentorship from working investors, and a large alumni network. | VC programme | Remote / global | · | 2 months ago | |
Innosuisse | Innosuisse Start-up CoachingThe Swiss Innovation Agency's coaching and training programmes for science-based startups, from idea stage to scale. | Accelerator | Switzerland | · | 2 days ago | |
Kickstart | Kickstart InnovationZurich's corporate-partnered innovation programme pairing startups with Swiss corporates for pilots, run each autumn. | Accelerator | Zurich, Switzerland | · | 2 days ago | |
Venture Kick Foundation | Venture KickUp to CHF 150,000 in staged grants for Swiss university spin-offs and student founders before incorporation, through three pitching rounds. | Accelerator | Switzerland | · | 2 days ago | |
Y Combinator | YC Startup SchoolFree, self paced online course and community from Y Combinator for anyone learning to start a company. No equity and no application bar, so a sensible first step. | Accelerator | Online | · | 2 months ago | |
Entrepreneur First | Entrepreneur FirstBacks individuals before they have a company or a co-founder, then helps them find both. London is the original site. Built for technically strong people with no idea yet. | Accelerator | London / global | · | 2 months ago | |
Y Combinator | Y CombinatorThe best known accelerator in the world. Two batches a year, a standard investment, and a demo day. Takes very early teams, including students who defer. | Accelerator | San Francisco / remote | · | 2 months ago | |
On Deck | On Deck FoundersCohort based community for founders at the earliest stages, from idea through to first raise, with a large alumni network. | Incubator | Remote / global | · | 2 months ago | |
HackZurich | HackZurichEurope's largest hackathon, in Zurich each autumn, with admission by application and challenges set by corporate partners. | Hackathon | Zurich, Switzerland | · | 2 days ago | |
ETH Zurich students | ETH Entrepreneur ClubThe student entrepreneurship society at ETH Zurich, running founder talks, pitching events and the Rocket Hub co-working space. | Event | Zurich, Switzerland | · | 2 days ago | |
START Global | START SummitEurope's largest student-run entrepreneurship conference, in St. Gallen each spring, with a hackathon and founder fellowship alongside. | Event | St. Gallen, Switzerland | · | 2 days ago | |
Deutsche Bank | Deutsche Bank student eventsDeutsche Bank's calendar of insight days, webinars and campus sessions for students, alongside its spring, internship and graduate programmes. What is listed turns over through the cycle, so check the page for what is currently open. | Event | Global, virtual and on campus | · | 1 month ago | |
Kamand Prompt, IIT Mandi | Multimodal AI Hackathon 2026Themes: Machine Learning/AI. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 14 Oct 2026deadline | 7 days ago | |
Westwood Computer Science Club | WarriorHacks 2.0Themes: Beginner Friendly, Machine Learning/AI, Open Ended. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 14 Oct 2026deadline | 8 days ago | |
Student Organization | Next Founders HackathonThemes: Beginner Friendly, Low/No Code, Open Ended. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 15 Oct 2026deadline | 1 month ago | |
aiLights Association | Hack ApertusThemes: Education, Machine Learning/AI, Social Good. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Grand Finals 2027 | 16 Oct 2026deadline | 5 days ago | |
Mạng Lưới AI | MLAI Hackathon 2026Themes: Databases, Machine Learning/AI. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 16 Oct 2026deadline | 18 days ago | |
Eureka Institute and UnivaDev | EurekaDev 2026Themes: Beginner Friendly, Open Ended, Social Good. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 20 Oct 2026deadline | 6 days ago | |
Amazon | Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer HackathonThemes: Machine Learning/AI, Open Ended, Productivity. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 23 Oct 2026deadline | 1 month ago | |
IEEE Turkey | IEEE ClimateChain Global HackathonThemes: Blockchain, Machine Learning/AI, Social Good. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 25 Oct 2026deadline | 2 days ago | |
Devpost | Build With AI: BasicsThemes: Machine Learning/AI, Beginner Friendly, Education. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 26 Oct 2026deadline | 13 days ago | |
GitLab | Life After CodeNEW Themes: DevOps, Machine Learning/AI, Productivity. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 27 Oct 2026deadline | 1 day ago | |
OpenCV | OpenCV AI Competition 2026, powered by AWSThemes: IoT, Machine Learning/AI, Serverless. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 27 Oct 2026deadline | 1 month ago | |
AWS | AWS Communication Developer Services (CDS) Agentic AI Partner HackathonThemes: Communication, Mobile, Machine Learning/AI. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 28 Oct 2026deadline | 22 days ago | |
Qloo | Qloo Agentic HackathonThemes: Machine Learning/AI. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 30 Oct 2026deadline | 6 days ago | |
nebius | Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI HackathonThemes: Machine Learning/AI, Beginner Friendly, Robotic Process Automation. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 30 Oct 2026deadline | 1 month ago | |
Galuxium | Galuxium Nexus V2Themes: Enterprise, Machine Learning/AI, Productivity. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 31 Oct 2026deadline | 2 months ago | |
Perfect Corp | YouCam API Skin AI & eCommerce VTO HackathonThemes: AR/VR, E-commerce/Retail, Machine Learning/AI. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 2 Nov 2026deadline | 7 days ago | |
PayPal | PayPal AI HackathonThemes: Low/No Code, Machine Learning/AI, Web. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 12 Nov 2026deadline | 5 days ago | |
STEMise | DSH Hacks V2 ($100k+ in prizes!)Themes: Beginner Friendly, Low/No Code, Open Ended. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 15 Nov 2026deadline | 1 month ago | |
Meta | Meta VR Start Developer Competition 2026Themes: AR/VR, Machine Learning/AI, Web. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 18 Nov 2026deadline | 12 days ago | |
Student Organization | Syntax SummitThemes: DevOps, Machine Learning/AI, Robotic Process Automation. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 14 Jan 2027deadline | 1 month ago | |
nill | Code for HumanityThemes: Education, Machine Learning/AI, Web. Listed on Devpost. | Hackathon | Online | 15 Jan 2027deadline | 1 month ago | |
