AngelHack

AngelHack
Industry Hackathons
Founded 2011 (2011)
Founders Greg Gopman and Krystyl Baldwin
Headquarters San Francisco, California
Website angelhack.com
hackathon.io

AngelHack is a global hackathon organization founded by Greg Gopman and Krystyl Baldwin. When Krystyl left, Greg Osuri stepped in as her replacement 2011.[1] It began in San Francisco and expanded to over 50 cities with around 100,000 developers in the community.[2]

AngelHack hosts an annual global hackathon competition where entrants compete to build, test, and launch new software solutions over the course of a weekend. AngelHack also built Hackathon.io, an online community for hackathoners and HACKcelerator, a pre-accelerator program for AngelHack Winners, and Global Demo Days, a day for all AngelHack winners to showcase projects to San Francisco Investors.

AngelHack also facilitates corporate hackathons and has partnered with organizations like Comcast-NBC Universal,[3] Hasbro,[4] IBM,[5] Hearst,[6] Cisco and MasterCard[7] to run themed events designed to prototype ideas.

AngelHack's community consists of approximately 97,000 members.[8] Currently, it is a female-owned, female-majority company.[9]

AngelHack HACKcelerator

AngelHack also runs the HACKcelerator,[10] a pre-accelerator program that provides mentorship to entrepreneurs and showcases companies to investors. Notable AngelHack HACKcelerator teams include WeFunder and Microryza,[11] both of which have been inducted to Y-Combinator.[12] Another HACKcelerator project, Waigo Translate, has been inducted into 500 Startups.[13] Two HACKcelerator graduates have been acquired by Google: SlickLogin[14] and Appetas.[15] Another team, Osper, was able to raise over $10 million in seed-funding. In 2015 AtumSoft secured their first $100,000 in funding from Lab360 and facetime with Y-Combinator.[16]

History

AngelHack was founded by Greg Gopman and Krystyl Baldwin.[17] Greg Osuri stepped in to replace Krystyl down and Sabeen Ali joined as a co-founder.

In late 2014, Greg Gopman left the company and Sabeen Ali continued running it.

References

  1. ↑ "This Silicon Valley Newbie Hated The Way Hackathons Were Run, So He Built His Own". 6 December 2011.
  2. ↑ Mackin, Scott (15 November 2013). "AngelHack Barcelona: Join the Largest Hackathon on the Planet". BarcInno.
  3. ↑ "Comcast and NBCUniversal Look Ahead at Inaugural Hackathon" (Press release). Comcast. 27 May 2014.
  4. ↑ "Hackathon at Hasbro HQ in Pawtucket RI". MakeZine. 6 August 2013.
  5. ↑ Krish, Brinda. "India's Biggest Hackfest!". developerWorks India. IBM.
  6. ↑ "Hearst Magazines Announces 2013 "Hearst Fashion Hack" During New York Fashion Week February 9 and 10 at Hearst Tower in NYC" (Press release). Hearst. 14 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "MasterCard's Masters of Code leaps to the Lion City in March" (Press release). MasterCard. 17 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "AngelHack: Changing the World One Hackathon at a Time". August 2016.
  9. ↑ Carlstroem, Paul (25 May 2016). "AngelHack interview: Changing the World One Hackathon at a Time". CloudAcademy.
  10. ↑ Ha, Anthony (21 March 2013). "AngelHack Launches A Startup Accelerator, Bringing Its Hackathon To 30+ Cities This Spring". TechCrunch.
  11. ↑ "Y Combinator Backed Microryza is a Kickstarter for Science". Crowdfund Insider. 25 February 2013.
  12. ↑ Lawler, Ryan (19 March 2013). "Y Combinator-Backed WeFunder Launches To Bring Crowdfunding Startups To The Masses". TechCrunch.
  13. ↑ Millward, Steve (17 December 2012). "Waigo App is a Pair of Eyes That Helps You Get a Bellyful of Chinese Food". TechInAsia.
  14. ↑ Kumparak, Greg (16 February 2014). "Google Acquires SlickLogin, The Sound-Based Password Alternative". TechCrunch.
  15. ↑ Lunden, Ingrid (7 May 2014). "To Battle Yelp, Google Buys Appetas, A Website Builder For Restaurants". TechCrunch.
  16. ↑ Venturella, Patrick (25 February 2016). "There and Back Again: Atumsoft's Journey from #StartupCincy to Global Demo Day". Cintrifuse.
  17. ↑ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/angelhack
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