Hackathons, pitch competitions, and startup challenges with prize pools above ₹5 lakhs.
Showing 24 competitions for Indian startups
Rusk Media & Recur Club
India's premier startup reality show is back for Season 2 — revenue-generating Indian founders pitch to a panel of investor "Tycoons" for ca…
USAII
A global online AI hackathon by USAII with a $15,000 prize pool — open to participants worldwide, including India.
GitLab
A global online hackathon by GitLab with a $20,000 prize pool — open to developers, DevOps engineers, and AI enthusiasts worldwide.
PhysicsWallah (PW) — School of Startups
Pitch your AI startup to PhysicsWallah for a shot at funding from a ₹10 Cr pool — open to seed–pre-Series founders and college students buil…
UiPath
A global online hackathon by UiPath with a $50,000 prize pool, focused on building AI agents using the UiPath platform.
Amazon
A global online hackathon by Amazon to build with Vercel v0 and AWS Databases — $80,000 prize pool.
Aethra
A global online hackathon by Aethra with a $33,532 prize pool — open to all, beginner-friendly, and focused on AI/ML and open-ended innovati…
Alibaba Cloud
A global online AI hackathon by Alibaba Cloud with a $45,000 prize pool — open to Indian teams and individual builders.
Pegasus Tech Ventures
The Bangalore regional qualifier for Startup World Cup, offering Indian founders a chance to compete for a $1 million investment at the Gran…
Salesforce
Build AI agents on Slack's platform for a chance to win $42,000 in prizes — open to global participants including Indian teams.
Elite Forums
A national-level online hackathon by Elite Forums for India's top developers, innovators, and startups, offering cash prizes, funding opport…
Celesta
A data challenge for Indian high school students to analyze exoplanet data — $10,300 prize pool.
Arm
A global online hackathon by Arm challenging participants to optimize AI workloads on Arm architecture — $8,000 prize pool.
XPRIZE
A global online innovation challenge by XPRIZE, inviting participants to leverage Google Gemini for groundbreaking solutions, with a $2,000,…
Rice University
A global online hackathon hosted by Rice University focused on urban sustainability — $17,500 prize pool.
Odoo
Odoo Hackathon 2026 is Asia's largest recruitment hackathon, offering a ₹5,00,000 cash prize pool and direct job opportunities for coders ag…
Ideabaaz Tech Pvt Ltd (presented by Zee TV & Zee5)
India's founder-first startup festival + Zee TV pitch show is back. Founders from any city, any stage, any sector pitch to a panel of invest…
Dayananda Sagar University
Dayananda Sagar University's national 36-hour hackathon for student developers, designers, and innovators, featuring a total prize pool of ₹…