An 'Awesome List' of companies to contact when looking for sponsorship for a hackathon.
These companies generally provide 'swag' for your hackathon, for example: Stickers, Cakes, T-Shirts, Domains, etc.
| Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎗️ | NameCheap | The Domain Name Registrar with the BEST Customer Service. |
| 🎗️ | GitHub | GitHub is version control platform for the everyday coder. |
| 🎗️ | Digital Ocean | Need web hosting, cloud storage? Get a droplet today. |
| 🎗️ | TechCrunch | The latest technology news and information on startups. |
| 🎗️ | Unixstickers | Stickers, t-shirts, mugs and posters on unix, programming and open source. |
| 🎗️ | Sticker Mule | Custom stickers that kick ass. |
| 🎗️ | Heroku | A cloud application platform for Ruby, Rails, Node. |
| 🎗️ | Bitbucket | A code hosting site, for the Git and Mercurial version control system. |
| 🎗️ | Domain.com | One of the world's top players in domain registration and web hosting. |
| 🎗️ | Bloomberg | Bloomberg delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world. |
| 🎗️ | Soylent | Soylent is a pioneer in food technology, producing healthy, functional foods that are good for the body and the planet. |
Try these companies if you're looking for 'food' sponsorship:
| Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎗️ | Just Eat | Food delivery. |
| 🎗️ | Red Bull | Giving wings to people and ideas. |
| 🎗️ | Takeaway | Order food the easy way. |
| 🎗️ | Awake Chocolate | Delicious caffeinated milk chocolate. |
| 🎗️ | Potbelly | The Neighborhood Sandwich Shop |
In need of a venue? These companies have been known to offer free space for hackathons:
| Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎗️ | Google Campus | Free event space & coworking. |
Need some money for your hackathon? Try these kind companies:
| Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎗️ | Capital One | Credit Cards. |
| 🎗️ | Curve | Connect all your (Credit) cards together. |
| 🎗️ | BlackRock | Trusted to manage more money than any other investment manager in the world. |
Looking to get some hardware for your hackathon? These are your guys:
| Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎗️ | Estimote | Estimote Beacons — real world context for your apps. |
| 🎗️ | Muse | The brain sensing headband. |
| 🎗️ | Oculus VR | Oculus is making it possible to experience anything, anywhere, through the power of virtual reality. |
| 🎗️ | Thalmic Labs | Makers of the Myo Gesture Control Armband. |
| 🎗️ | Ultrahaptics | A remarkable connection with technology. |
| 🎗️ | Leap Motion | Leap Motion’s mission is to remove the barriers between people and technology. |
| 🎗️ | Qualcomm | World leader in 3G and next-generation mobile technologies. |
| 🎗️ | Amazon Alexa | Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. |
These sponsors come to events to encourage hackers to hack with their APIs and often offer prizes.
| Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎗️ | Wolfram | Amazing API sponsor, great at engaging with and supporting hackers. |
| 🎗️ | Lyft | Ride sharing service, most recently promoting their new API. |
| 🎗️ | PubNub | Provides real-time services and APIs for developers for mobile, web and IoT. |
| 🎗️ | IBM Watson | Build cognitive apps. |
| 🎗️ | Twilio | Communication APIs for SMS, Voice, Video and Authentication |
| 🎗️ | Nexmo | Allows developers to embed programmable text, chat and voice communications into apps, websites and business systems. |
| 🎗️ | Softheon | Softheon designs and deploys federal and state health insurance exchange (HIX) marketplace interaction and integration solutions. |
Need a continuous integration service? Check out one of these.
| Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎗️ | Travis CI | A hosted continuous integration service for open source projects. |
| 🎗️ | Style CI | The PHP Coding Style Service, a Continuous integration with a difference. |
| 🎗️ | Circle CI | Automate the software development process using continuous integration and continuous delivery. |
| 🎗️ | Jenkins | A fork of Hudson and is a continuous build system for software projects. |
| 🎗️ | JetBrains TeamCity | A continuous integration and build management system. |
| 🎗️ | AppVeyor | Continuous Integration for busy developers AppVeyor automates building, testing and deployment of .NET applications. |
| 🎗️ | Codeship | Codeship is a hosted Continuous Delivery Service that integrates with GitHub and Bitbucket. |
| 🎗️ | GoCD | Open source continuous delivery server with a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility. |
| 🎗️ | Vexor.io | A fast and cheap, cloud continuous integration service with per-minute billing. |
| 🎗️ | Hudson | Hudson monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. |
| 🎗️ | Bitrise | Automate your iOS development - From building through testing to deployment Bitrise can automate your daily development tasks. |
Other generous companies that often sponsor hackathons. (Create new categories if you have ideas!)
| Sponsor | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 🎗️ | Stripe | The new standard in online payments. |
| 🎗️ | OPHosting | Get your Website hosted by OPHosting. |
| 🎗️ | Devpost | Brings you great job and hacking opportunities. |
| 🎗️ | Riot | Open team collaboration. |
| 🎗️ | Matrix | An open network for secure, decentralized communication. |
| 🎗️ | Accenture | High Performance. Delivered. |
| 🎗️ | Web Applications UK | Bespoke travel software passionately made in the UK. |
| 🎗️ | Barclays | 325 years of banking expertise. |
| 🎗️ | Cake Solutions | Enterprise software services. |
| 🎗️ | Codethink | The Systems Software Experts. |
| 🎗️ | FlossUK | Free Libre and Open Source Systems. |
| 🎗️ | Telcom | Superfast internet for the UK. |
| 🎗️ | Space 48 | Magento Enterprise Solutions Partners & Ecommerce Agency. |
| 🎗️ | Morgan Stanley | Global financial services firm. |
| 🎗️ | CARFAX | Carfax is the leading source in vehicle history for buyers and sellers of used cars. They’ve got tons of job opportunities for hackers to jumpstart their careers early! |
| 🎗️ | hackajob | Online job marketplace. |
| 🎗️ | AND Digital | Building and developing software products in multiple languages. |
| 🎗️ | Pusher | We spend our time maintaining reliable and scalable realtime infrastructure so you can spend yours building awesome realtime features. |
| 🎗️ | Skyscanner | Compare your flights, hotels and car hire. |
| 🎗️ | P2Pkit | Enable your apps to understand their proximity to nearby devices. |
| 🎗️ | Chirp | Connecting millions of devices for leading brands in over 90 countries. |
| 🎗️ | Dolby | Best known for high-quality audio and surround sound. |
| 🎗️ | Carfax | Carfax is the leading source in vehicle history for buyers and sellers of used cars. |
| 🎗️ | BNY Mellon | BNY Mellon is a worldwide banking & financial services holding company. |
| 🎗️ | Amazon Web Services | Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality. |
| 🎗️ | Qualtrics | Qualtrics is a privately held experience management company. |
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