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AI Hackathon

Accelerate What Matters

Powered by Ada Ventures

Date:
Friday, 24th October 2025
Check-in: 8:30 AM | Hackathon Kick-off: 9:15 AM | Ends: 6 PM‍
Location:
Google Offices, King’s Cross, London
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Applications open until:
11:59pm BST Friday 17th October
Apply here

Collaborators

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Dream Big. Build Today!

The next wave of AI founders starts here.

Whether you're a mission-driven engineer, hacker, or aspirating founder, this is your opportunity to build with impact. Through our action-packed event you'll get the chance to win an investment offer and six-figure cloud credits to accelerate your journey from idea to MVP.

Ada Ventures is investing £100,000 in the winning team 
(T&Cs apply), alongside:

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£100,000 in Google Cloud  credits

to power your infrastructure.

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ÂŁ12,500 in legal services from Eversheds Sutherland

to complete your investment round.

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Childcare support during the hackathon from Bubble

for selected participants, breaking barriers identified in the Alison Rose Review.

Access to their community and support from London Founder House

a residency and community for the UK’s top 1% of tech founders

Who it’s for

  • Cracked AI engineers who ship fast and validate early.
  • Product builders with taste who believe in shipping > decks.
  • Anyone with a vision to build something with real impact.

Why join?

  • Real cash and resources are on the line.
  • ÂŁ100,000 investment goes to the winning team (T&Cs apply).
  • Build, test, and showcase your idea in just 1 day.
  • Collaborate with some of the sharpest engineers, product thinkers, and creators.
  • Be part of a community where raw talent - not just connections - gets funded.

Why This Hackathon is Different

  • No endless pitches. No “networking only”.
  • Come solo or with a squad - your code speaks louder than LinkedIn.
  • Ada’s here to back extraordinary talent at the earliest stage.
  • Come with a bold idea.
  • Leave with a funded startup.

Applications now open. Spots are limited.

Apply here

How the day will run

Check-in: 8:30 AM

Teams will be presented with a list of up to 5 broad areas they can build something in. They must then submit a short “idea card” of what they intend to build.

This card will explain:

  • Name of the idea
  • Problem or opportunity being addressed
  • Target user

Hackathon Kick-off: 9:15 AM

Hackathon starts. Working lunch at 12:30 pm for 45 mins.

Ends: 6 PM

Close and end.

Building Rules & Ethos

You’ll build and demo your product idea on the same day. We’ll kick off at 10:00 am and you’ll have until 3:00pm to submit your MVP. Demos start at approximately 4:00 pm and end at 5:00 pm. (3 Mins Per Team).

What you can and can’t do

We want this to be fair and high-energy. So here’s the deal:

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You can use

  • Publicly available libraries, templates, or open-source tools
  • Your own skills, past learnings, and ideas
  • Basic project scaffolding or boilerplate you build on the day
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You can’t

  • Bring a pre-existing MVP or product and pass it off as new
  • Submit something that was mostly built before 2nd May 2025
  • Use private or proprietary codebases built earlier

Everything you demo should be built on the day.

Apply here

T&Cs for the winning team to receive an investment offer

  • Venture must become a UK incorporated entity
  • Venture is within one of our investment themes and not in excluded sectors
  • Founding team will pursue the venture full-time
  • Investment will be subject to contract and satisfactory due diligence
  • GBP 100k investment

Judging Criteria

  • Speed of Execution – How far did you get with the limited time and resources?
  • Originality – How non-obvious or differentiated is the idea?  
  • Clarity of Problem/Opportunity – Is it solving a significant pain point or addressing a massive opportunity?
  • Team Potential – Could this team or founder be backed to scale something big?
  • Demo Quality – Does the MVP do something valuable today?

Collaborators

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Google Cloud is helping businesses use smart data and AI to find insights and optimise resources.
  • Dedicated Startups Success Manager
  • Enhanced Support
  • Exclusive Startup Perks
  • Exclusive Google-wide benefits
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Eversheds Sutherland is a pre-eminent, global, full service law firm. Our global venture capital team provides a full range of legal services and strategic advice to venture capital investors, corporate investors, family offices and sovereign wealth investors, together with supporting the entrepreneurs and tomorrow’s leading companies that benefit from this investment.
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Bubble is a community of over 300k parents and vetted babysitters & nannies built on trust. We provide the missing piece of your childcare puzzle - recommended babysitters and nannies who can be with you at short notice. Whether it’s a planned event, an unexpected situation or just a need to be in two places at once, we’ve got your back.
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London Founder House (LFH) is a residency and community for the UK’s top 1% of tech founders, including Y Combinator alumni, Forbes 30 Under 30, and breakout early-stage talent building the future home of Europe’s next unicorns, rooted in the belief that London can rival San Francisco as a global tech hub.