HackTank takes teams from their first line of code to their first term sheet. Run the hackathon, match mentors and judges, shortlist your best teams, and put them live in front of investors — in one connected platform, not five disconnected tools.
Built for organizations running hackathons, incubators, and investor pitch days.
Most hackathons end the same way: a demo, a photo, and a Slack channel that goes quiet by Monday. The best teams and the most promising ideas have nowhere structured to go — and the people who could fund them never find out these projects exist.
Participants build something real, then watch it stall with no path forward.
Organizers spend serious budget on an event with no visibility into what happens after it ends.
Mentors give their time with no way to track whether their guidance led anywhere.
Judges score great work that nobody acts on once the leaderboard is published.
Investors never see this talent pool because there’s no structured way in.
HackTank is organized around four connected pillars — each one owned by the people who actually use it.
Everything an Organization Admin needs to launch and run an event: banners, timelines, tracks, rubrics, prizes, and registrations — configured in one dashboard, not a stack of spreadsheets.
Structured, trackable engagement. Mentors schedule sessions and log feedback; judges score against clear rubrics from a dedicated queue — no more ad-hoc calls or inconsistent scoring.
The leaderboard doesn’t just crown a winner — it’s the on-ramp to funding. Shortlisted teams build a full investment profile: valuation, equity, business plan, financial projections, risk disclosures, and cap table.
Live pitch sessions with real investors, real bids, and a real funding round dashboard — moving from pitch to signed term sheet without leaving the platform.
The Organization Admin creates the hackathon — banner, description, rules, key dates, team size limits, and registration settings — and configures Themes & Tracks, Timeline, Rubrics, Mentors & Judges, and Prizes.
Participants register, form or join teams, and get to work — tracking progress from a single dashboard covering hackathons, teams, submissions, and rankings.
Judges review assigned submissions against predefined rubrics and submit scores. Mentors schedule sessions with their assigned teams and log feedback after each one.
The Leaderboard surfaces the top-performing teams. Shortlisted teams build an investment profile with valuation, equity details, business plans, financial projections, and cap tables.
The Admin reviews the investment profile and creates a Pitch Session — schedule, bidding duration, and meeting link — with automatic invitations sent to investors and team leaders.
Investors join the live session, ask questions, and place bids. The Manage Pitch Session view tracks the funding round dashboard and live bids, and the deal is finalized through term sheet management.
Give your team a single control room for every hackathon you run.
Everything a builder needs to go from idea to investor pitch.
Give your time to teams worth investing in — and know it mattered.
Score what matters, without the spreadsheet chaos.
Meet founders while they're still building — not after they've raised from someone else.
This is what sets HackTank apart: a live, structured investment session built directly on top of your hackathon pipeline — not a bolt-on afterthought.
Go out to investors and team leaders the moment a pitch session is created.
The organizer joins to monitor Q&A, participant activity, and funding progress in real time.
Tracks bids as they come in, side by side, so everyone sees the round fill in real time.
One view to update status, track funding and equity bids, and move to term sheet management.
“The best teams shouldn’t have to cold-email investors after the fact. In HackTank, the investors are already in the room.”
From team formation to a signed term sheet, with nothing to re-key between tools.
Organization Admin, Participant, Mentor, Judge, Investor, and the organizers running the Shark Tank sessions — not a generic event tool stretched to fit.
Real pitch sessions and real bids, not cold outreach and lucky warm intros.
Every score, session, bid, and pitch session is tracked and attributable.
Run internal and external innovation programs with a clear, trackable path from hackathon to pilot to potential spin-out investment.
Avg. 6 pilots per programGive student teams structured mentorship, fair judging, and a real shot at investor attention — not just a certificate.
412 teams, 1 cohortRun cohort demo days and investor pitch sessions on the same platform you use to manage applications and mentorship.
Demo day to term sheet in 9 daysRun public innovation challenges with transparent judging and a credible path to follow-on funding for winning teams.
Fully auditable scoring trailSee how Organization Admins, participants, mentors, judges, and investors all work inside one platform.