about this event
What if you could go from idea to startup in a single day? Join founders, builders, creators, students, and entrepreneurs for an intensive one-day challenge where you'll use Kylon and AI teammates to turn an idea into a real, launch-ready startup.
This isn't a traditional hackathon focused on writing the most code. The goal is to build a complete business — validate a real problem, develop the product, create your AI-powered organization, and pitch your startup.
What You'll Build: Throughout the day, your team will work through the key stages of building a startup: Discover — Identify a meaningful problem and define your customer. Validate — Research the market and test your assumptions. Build — Create your product and working MVP. Organize — Build AI teammates to help with product, research, marketing, sales, strategy, and more. Launch — Develop your brand, landing page, business model, and go-to-market strategy. Pitch — Present your startup, product, and vision to judges and investors.
Your AI Team: With Kylon, you'll build an AI-powered organization designed around your startup. Create the teammates you need — from AI co-founders and product managers to researchers, engineers, marketers, sales agents, and strategic advisors — and use them to accelerate your startup throughout the challenge.
Who Should Join? Founders • Developers • Designers • Product Managers • Students • Marketers • Business Owners • Researchers • Entrepreneurs. You don't need to be a technical expert. A strong idea, domain knowledge, creativity, and the ability to use AI effectively can be just as valuable.
What Judges Will Look For: Problem & customer validation, market opportunity, product quality, business model, AI-native execution, creativity and effectiveness of AI teammates, go-to-market strategy, startup potential, and quality of the final pitch and demo.
The Goal: By the end of the day, you won't just have a prototype. You'll have the foundation of a real AI-native startup — and the opportunity to put it in front of mentors, investors, and the broader startup community. One day. One idea. One startup. Build your AI-native startup with Kylon.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com
tracks
Discover
Identify a meaningful problem and define your customer.
Validate
Research the market and test your assumptions.
Build
Create your product and working MVP.
Organize
Build AI teammates to help with product, research, marketing, sales, strategy, and more.
Launch
Develop your brand, landing page, business model, and go-to-market strategy.
Pitch
Present your startup, product, and vision to judges and investors.
when
AI-Native Startup Hackathon | #SFTechWeek
One-day challenge: discover, validate, build, organize with AI teammates, launch and pitch an AI-native startup.
◍ TBAtickets
| tickets | price | Fee | Status | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Admission | Free | None | Available | Free entry to the one-day AI-native startup hackathon. |