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Ultimate virtual hackathon solution

Learning how to organize a hackathon can be a challenge without the correct tools. We simplified this process to create a better experience for your organization.

Join our 100+ corporate partners that have already made part of our amazing challenges and hackathons

Online Hackathons

Hosting an online hackathon event is a great way to engage with external communities. We provide an innovation platform where you can crowdsource solutions while branding yourself as an Innovation leader. No matter the size or industry your company is from, Hackathons are the fastest way towards your digital transformation.

Private Hackathons

Company hackathons are great opportunities for organizations to create and present innovative ideas, solve business challenges, build up new product lines and design new features internally. Learning how to arrange a private hackathon is easier than ever before with our platform: it’s designed to promote cross-functional collaboration by engaging with different teams and fostering a culture of innovation.

What can we offer?

All-in-one hackathon software solution

No external tools are needed. Our innovation management software allows you to manage participants, competition content, rules, prizes, event timeline, project submissions, and evaluation/voting stages.

Attract talent and promote your hackathons

Bringing highly specialized and creative minds to solve your organization's challenges is not easy. Our diverse community has more than 50.000 innovators ready to engage and create amazing solutions.

Virtual hackathon experts

While it’s good practice to search for hackathon ideas, your organization is unique and your hackathon should be too. We have helped several companies to organize successful events, and we’re here to help you craft a hackathon that matters to your company and participants alike.

Create virtual teams

Creating teams for virtual hackathons can be a struggle. TAIKAI’s Matchmaking feature helps your participants to virtually connect and team-up on the platform while all this is easily managed on backoffice.

Submission dashboard

TAIKAI hackathon management platform allows the participants to submit their projects in rich formats with images, videos and attachments, in a user-friendly environment for participants and jury.

Easy voting system

Evaluating the best projects was never so simple before TAIKAI. All you need is to define the best criteria that matches your objectives and leave the rest with us.

Connect to your favorite apps

TAIKAI's Platform connects your hackathon with your favorite software tools. Don’t waste time and energy managing things that could be automated. Sync your hackathon information and create workflows and automation for your event.

Some of our
success stories

Freyr KetilssonIceland Innovation Week
I have been operating Hackathons since 2012, this was my first online Hackathon, never before have I ever experienced such a professional and good service. The TAIKAI team walked us all in the organizing team through their platform and helped us every step of the way during the event. Participants and judges also got personal guidance on how the platform works. I never felt insecure about taking the event online, the TAIKAI team gave us all such confidence. Very professional and personal service from the team. The platform is easy to maneuver and figure out how it works.
Celso MartinhoBright Pixel
Companies talk about innovation every day. We learned that the process of joining the right people with the right attitude and providing them with the resources, tools, and culture to go on a journey of discovery and exploration for something unique is the best way to describe it. TAIKAI was built by a team that understands this as few do. Real partners with real necessities on the field are constantly validating the vision for the platform. If you’re looking for talent, community, incentives, network serendipity, and a place to host and manage your business challenges, then TAIKAI is the place to go.
Carla PimentaEDP Inovação
Organizing a hackathon is not an easy task, specially for large companies’ teams who are also involved in several big projects at the same time, and frequently don’t have the know-how or the resources to make it happen, from scratch, in just 2 months. TAIKAI team was key in the success of Hack the Electron. They helped us design our hackathons and communicate them effectively to the target audience – the hackers. The TAIKAI platform has become a hub of hackathons that promotes open innovation and collaboration between corporates and startups, a kind of national 'Tinder' for technology. And utilities are swiping right!
Raquel Pires, Ana Madeira and Andreia JesusGlintt Inov
Hacking Health by Glintt Inov, a hackathon that was only made possible with the help of TAIKAI. A company that since day one has helped us and challenges us to want more and better. Sympathy, availability, professionalism and effort are the keywords that best describe TAIKAI.
Eduardo MarquesCode Addict and BlockApps
TAIKAI reflects the inner desire that every human being has to creatively collaborate with others. Seems that they filled (gracefully) a missing piece in the yet new and puzzly Portuguese startup ecosystem. Fight Covid-19 promoted by them united big corporations, international universities, and startups. TAIKAI feels like home and yet a powerful platform to discover new things.
Rafael PiresSONAE MC/BIT
With TAIKAI, the whole evaluation process of BIT Hackathon was simple, smooth and in real-time. The transparent process allowed the participants to see how they were ranked by each member of the jury and how that was reflected in the leaderboard. It’s always a stressful process for the organization, but with TAIKAI it was a walk in the park.
João CastroNova SBE
For us at the school using TAIKAI was an excellent opportunity to engage with our student community and involve them in the idea generation phase. We are fortunate to work with a bright-minded diverse group which have a different perspective on what surrounds them which we wanted to tap into. We know organizations tend to follow a “I know best” approach, even if involuntarily, and create paternalistic and prescriptive solutions which are at a larger risk of failing. By using TAIKAI to engage with our community we were able to escape that trap, hear about their priorities and find novel solutions to some of the challenges we were facing.
Pranav DulepetBitHacks
Organizing a global hackathon for the first time can be a daunting task with all the different aspects of the process. Working with TAIKAI helped us ensure all our participants, speakers, judges, and mentors had a seamless and enjoyable experience at BitHacks. The TAIKAI platform provides a very versatile and customized experience through organizing the different parts of the hackathon to being able to customize almost everything. The TAIKAI team were very helpful and were always ready to solve any issues and provide immediate support when necessary.
Freyr KetilssonIceland Innovation Week
I have been operating Hackathons since 2012, this was my first online Hackathon, never before have I ever experienced such a professional and good service. The TAIKAI team walked us all in the organizing team through their platform and helped us every step of the way during the event. Participants and judges also got personal guidance on how the platform works. I never felt insecure about taking the event online, the TAIKAI team gave us all such confidence. Very professional and personal service from the team. The platform is easy to maneuver and figure out how it works.
Celso MartinhoBright Pixel
Companies talk about innovation every day. We learned that the process of joining the right people with the right attitude and providing them with the resources, tools, and culture to go on a journey of discovery and exploration for something unique is the best way to describe it. TAIKAI was built by a team that understands this as few do. Real partners with real necessities on the field are constantly validating the vision for the platform. If you’re looking for talent, community, incentives, network serendipity, and a place to host and manage your business challenges, then TAIKAI is the place to go.

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