START Hack: START Hack is a 35-hour hackathon and aims to foster real technological progress. We bring together hundreds of talented tech students from 30 countries and the best universities in the world.

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Innovation Hub St. Gallen

1st Place

START Summit Showcase & CHF 500 Microspot voucher
2nd Place

START Summit Showcase & CHF 300 Microspot voucher
3rd Place

START Summit Showcase & CHF 200 Microspot voucher
SBB/Uepaa Prize

Railaway voucher for a stay in Switzerland
Swisscom Prize

Chargers & Gift Cards worth CHF 150.-
Blockstream Prize

Blog article about the projects and especially the winner
Arvato/ Startupbootcamp Prize

Lego Mindstorm Robots
Fundbase Prize

100 CHF Amazon Elastic Computing Credits and Presenting Product & Findings at Fundbase Annual Investor Conference
Namics Prize

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Logitech Prize

Gaming Combo Set (Mouse, Keyboard & Headset)
MLH: Best use of AWS

Amazon Web Services swag and portable Harddrive
MLH: Best Developer Tool

GitHub Octocat Figurine
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Orb Floating Bluetooth Speaker

START Hack is a 35-hour hackathon and aims to foster real technological progress. We bring together hundreds of talented tech students from 30 countries and the best universities in the world.

START Hack is a 35-hour hackathon in St. Gallen, Switzerland with the aim to foster real technological progress. We bring together tech students from more than 30 countries and universities all over the world, such as MIT, Cambridge, ETH, EPFL and many more. Create innovative products in the focus areas Financial Technology (FinTech), Internet of Things (IoT) and Mobility.

The best teams will be evaluated by a jury, awarded with great prizes and invited to the big START Summit, where they will showcase their products in front of 1500 participants.

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