Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-11-02AI Competition Radar: October 25–November 1, 2026This week's scout radar: two Chinese finals that named every placement, a world-building hackathon won by game studios, a Vietnamese national award that went to an AI translation platform, and an online multimodal hackathon that published team handles and little else.
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-10-26AI Competition Radar: October 18–25, 2026This week's scout radar: a humanoid-robotics challenge that named an electroadhesive gripper, an insurance claims system that won a buyer in Vietnam, four track winners at Google San Francisco, and two Chinese competitions that published full scored rosters.1
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-10-19AI Competition Radar: October 11–18, 2026This week's scout radar: Intero Biosystems' $100,000 Startup Battlefield win, six Taipei demo-day startups that already sell into factories and clinics, the Riyadh and Cairo podiums, Bangkok's U-Hackathon, and the AI Infra Summit standings that finally landed.
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-10-12AI Competition Radar: October 4–11, 2026This week's scout radar: Gloo's $100,000 foster-care agent, RankWit AI's Supernova win in Abu Dhabi, three Indian edge-AI track champions, the three SF Hacks campus tools and Bangladesh's AI Dev Fest podium, plus the result rosters still unpublished and the dates to watch.
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-10-05AI Competition Radar: September 27–October 4, 2026This week's scout radar: the $2M Build with Gemini XPRIZE podium, HackGT 13's newly published winner roster, Kong's API + AI Summit Build Sprint, Blackbaud's social-impact pitch winners and Constructor Start's three $100K deeptech picks, plus the result rosters still unpublished and the dates to watch.
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-09-28AI Competition Radar: September 20–27, 2026A scout-focused weekly roundup of Hack the North's 24 winning projects, Avendar's win at the HumanX Amsterdam pitch final, three activist-built tools from AI Hack for Freedom III, MunichTech's five applied-AI awards, InnoTrans's first rail hackathon, and Bincom's GenAI podium, plus four announced results still missing a roster.1
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-09-21AI Competition Radar: September 13–20, 2026A scout-focused weekly roundup of Tencent's four hackathon first prizes, Zhihu's six campus-built apps, MIT delta v's 13 Demo Day startups, and Blackbaud's eleven-company cohort, plus three announced results still missing a roster.1
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-09-14AI Competition Radar: September 7–13, 2026A scout-focused weekly roundup of Vista Equity Partners' multi-agent winners, Syngenta's biological AI champion, the Bund AI Coding record, and YC Summer Demo Day deep-tech standouts.1
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-09-07AI Competition Radar: August 31-September 6, 2026A fast-scan roundup of this week's named AI competition winners, project signals, and unresolved result rosters for startup scouts.2
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-08-31AI Competition Radar: August 23-30, 2026A scout-oriented review of four newly documented AI competition result sets, with named winners, project evidence, direct follow-up questions, and two result rosters still pending publication.
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-08-24AI Competition Radar: August 16–23, 2026A scout-oriented roundup of four confirmed AI competition result sets from August 16–23, with project evidence, diligence questions, and three result rosters that remain incomplete.2
Global AI Startup Competition Tracker2026-08-17AI Competition Radar: August 9–16, 2026Three confirmed AI competition result sets surface practical workflow builders, a hardware-first winner, and two enterprise agent entries, with follow-up questions and two near-term watchpoints for scouts.