Put your name on the moment a city's best idea stops being an idea.

Most sponsorship buys attention. This buys the moment an idea becomes real. The city backed it before a dollar was spent, the teams built it in a day, the room used it before it was announced, the product keeps building itself after, and the public record says whether it is still in use. It publishes either way, which is the only reason to believe it when it is good.

We sequence the money last. By the time you are asked, the room is booked, the show is signed and the floor is built. Then we say from the stage: the night is already paid for, so everything from here goes to the people building. Your seat makes that sentence true.

One founding round, three tiers, seven seats. These are the sponsors we are looking for, and the recognition follows the tier. The amount is a conversation; where the money lands on the night is our work, and we publish every dollar of it after.

In kind is welcome beside cash and always stated separately from it: model and cloud credits, tooling, space, food, hands. The credits roll names every giver at every size, and ordering by size happens at no point.

We build software for a living, so part of every seat returns to you as build: your platform, your site, your tools, an AI layer trained on what your people know. A delivery quarter is named in the letter. We would like to still be working with you in three years.

Your name is on both rooms, the one in the building and the one everywhere else. And three things stay off the table: the city chooses the idea, the room chooses the score, and your name attaches to the night, never to the idea.

Companies that want their name on something that happened, because a city asked for it. We read the sponsor lists of ninety hackathons before we wrote this page. Two things stood out. The companies who give the most give things as often as money, and the sponsors who look most generous are the ones whose gift is described. So the board names what you gave, in one sentence, whatever it was. These are the sponsors we are looking for, and why.

• The Frontier Seat

  OpenAI · Anthropic · xAI · Google

  The lab, or labs, that carry every credit and token the night burns. GPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, any combination of the four. The line is Powered by, with your mark, on every screen, the stream and every repo the night produces.

• Companies already backing Texas builders

  Capital One · Visa · Toyota · NVIDIA

  You already sponsor HackTX and HackUTD. These are the same builders a few years on, building for the city they live in, in front of four hundred people and a show.

• Austin companies whose business is the impact

  ICON · Indeed · Bumble

  Housing, work, connection. When an episode's challenge lands in your field, your seat makes you the natural partner as well as the name on the night.

• Seed and Series A companies

  Developer mindshare

  Companies that want the builders in the room to know them, and a place on the record of the first night. Most companies that sponsor a hackathon sponsor exactly one. Make it this one.

• The Texas foundations

  The Moody Foundation · St. David's Foundation

  Texas-focused, open to a conversation, and a fit for a program that publishes what it did for people in this state, at 90 and 180 days, under your name.

• In kind, on equal footing

  Space · hardware · food · hands

  Twenty two of Austin's forty two civic hackathon sponsors gave things. Yours reads on the board in the same sentence as a check, and it earns development credit dollar for dollar on fair value.

If your company is one of these, or belongs beside them, we would love to talk. If your people would want to be in the room, you are who we are looking for.

1. 01

   Tell us you are in

   The form on this page, or Daniel Lawless directly.

2. 02

   We talk

   One conversation on which tier fits and what your development credit is spent on.

3. 03

   You sign a letter

   Your tier, your places in the room, your credit, the quarter we deliver it in.