AngelHack In Washington DC

This is all that is going to be happening at the AngelHack in DC. If you missed it, you can track it here. #AngelHack_DC on instagram and @AngelHack_DC on twitter!

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Winners announced. Event recap and a Big Thank You to you all!

Angelhack DC was an amazing success! 150 attendees participated with 40 teams formed. Each team put in their sweat, blood, and tears into this - whether it's for the glory, the money, the dream - we know one thing: we all had a TON OF FUN.

A BIG THANK YOU to Microsoft, Brightcontext, Singly, all our judges, volunteers, and most all - all the hackers that came from far and wide - this could not have been possible without you. 

Congratulations to our winners ---

List of Winners and their prizes:

Moving Food: Honor Mention for a Great Idea

Angel Hack-O-Meter: Four shaft aircraft drone with HD camera presented by BrightContext

Statsense: Nokia Lumia presented by Microsoft

VocabOwl: Briefcase of case presented by Singly 

Grand Prize Winners of AngelHack DC  and going to Silicon Valley: 

Statsense

Tuee

Event snapshots are below!

Anton, Angelhack DC Organizer with Sabeen from Angelhack 

Thanks for all our judges

ANGELHACK DC WINNERS: StatSense

ANGELHACK DC WINNERS: Tuee

Singly Prize Winner: VocabOwl

Brightcove Prize Winner: Angel Hack-O-Meter

Last but not least, to our awesome volunteers. We appreciate your hard work and time!! 

This is the first Angelhack in Washington DC. And thanks to you, it was a huge success. We wish all who participated the best of luck in your future endeavors. We all look forward to the next hackathon DC  - in the meantime - keep on hackin!!!!

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Pitching begins!

Submissions are in and the pitching begins. 

Judges viewing demos before the pitch:

List of teams: 

Teams and Judges gather to hear pitches:

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Sunday morning: Racing to the deadline

Teams are working hard to make the 1p deadline. Have to get a demo and pitch ready. 

On the line is 8 weeks of mentorship and be flown into Silicon Valley for a weekend of events including a Global Demo Day to A-list investors and media, Site visits to, Google, Facebook, Google Ventures, VIP dinners, and ragging parties with the Valley startup community. 

Not sure what's going on inside. But whatever motivates! 

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Fueling through Saturday night

Pizza and sodas kept our hackers going through the night...

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Our Sponsor: Microsoft and BizSpark for Startups

Microsoft has an amazing program for startups: BizSpark

Microsoft® BizSpark® is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, and providing marketing visibility. The program also includes access to Windows Azure, a flexible, comprehensive, and powerful cloud platform for the creation of web applications and services. In addition, BizSpark offers technical support, business training and a network of over 2,000 partners to connect members with incubators, investors, advisors, government agencies and hosters. Since it was established in 2008, more than 45,000 companies in over 100 countries have joined BizSpark.

For more information visit: http://aka.ms/aj-bz

Contact Ashish Jaiman

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @ashishjaiman

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Introducing some of our teams...

Team Code Bounty

Team Zen Index

Team HackMovement

Team Ascot

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Angelhack DC Launch Day Morning Opening Ceremony

AngelHack kicks off Saturday morning in the Microsoft offices in Chevy Chase MD! A crowd of 147 people are in attendance and they are ready to HACK! 

Opening Meeting: 

Anton presenting to the group:

A big thanks to MICROSOFT for letting us use the building and providing support to help make this happen. Ashish is the Director of StartUp strategy at Microsoft. 

More images..

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Prepping for Angelhack D.C.

It's no small feat getting ready for AngelHack D.C. 300+ people signed up for a 36 hour hackathon so there will be very hungry mouths and a high demand for caffeine. 

Anton and Brian Park preps by taking a trip to the local Costco. They load up the basics for a hack-survival: chips, candy, water, caffeinated sodas, and of course beer.

  Angelhack Washington D.C. Saturday Nov 18 - we are ready. 

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Reblogged. Original Blogger: rummagehq:

For 30 straight hours this weekend, my co-founder, Matt, and I competed in AngelHack (the biggest hackathon in the nation) for $75,000 in prizes, and the potential for recognition of our startup, Rummage.

The product we built, SnapStore.me, placed first on the West Coast, and second...

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

COMPUTERS!!!

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AngelHack unites developers around the world for a hackathon competition, where they can learn developer tools, start new companies, and win prizes and funding for their ideas.

AngelHack Fall 2012 brings together 2500 developers across 11 cities for the world’s largest hackathon. The top 25 teams with receive 6-weeks of mentorship before being flown to Silicon Valley to showcase their work to investors and media, visit top tech companies, and gotoVIP dinners and parties with the creme dela creme of Silicon Valley. On avg. 30% of finalists will find funding and move on to be groundbreaking startups.

This isn’t your typical hackathon; this is the big leagues. Are you 1337 enough?

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Welcome to DC AngelHack!

AngelHack Fall 2012 Washington D.C

Ready to take your big idea to the next level? Then join us for Washington DC's next AngelHack, where winning teams will receive 6-8 weeks of mentorship and be flown into Silicon Valley for a weekend of events including a Global Demo Day to A-list investors and media, Site visits to, Google, Facebook, Google Ventures, VIP dinners, and ragging parties with the Valley startup community. This is not your typical weekend hackathon! This is the big leagues! This is AngelHack and you can't afford to miss it.

AngelHack Fall 2012 Fast Facts

2500 amazing developers & designers in 11 cities for you to work with

Great food, shwag, nerf guns, helicopters, and awesomness all around

Over $650,000 in prizes, including trips to Silicon Valley for the top 25 teams

Media coverage and all star investor judges to help validate those whacky hack ideas of yours

WANT 50 FREE CARDS FROM MOO FOR YOUR ANGELHACK WASHINGTON D.C. PROJECT?

What should I build? Create a prototype (hack) of something that you believe solves a big problem. You don't need a business plan or anything crazy like that, but you should be able to show the big idea potential of your hack. AngelHack is a launchpad for you to flush out and validate projects you've always wanted to build. Previous winners include: Appetas, GiveGo, TapFame, SnapStore, ShareBrowse, Kloutron, & Blue Dragon Security.

What are the rules? All code must be FRESH. Prior to the hackathon you can create your design, wireframes, logo, and user flows. You can even build hardware. But to make things completely fair you can not write any code whatsoever until the hackathon starts. All code must be built at AngelHack. For more info visit our Registration, Rules and FAQ pages.

Good Luck, Gregory Gopman AngelHack Founder / CEO