Test Flight: Glasswing Ventures AI Hackathon
Glasswing Ventures · Test Flight: Glasswing Ventures AI Hackathon
Prize breakdown
Grand Prize
$300K in compute credits, awarded to the winning team. Compute provided by our partners.
Non-cashSecond Place
$40K of compute credits
Non-cashThird Place
$15K of compute credits
Non-cash
Timeline
- Submissions openSep 26, 2026
- Submission deadlineSep 27, 2026
About
Test Flight is a two-day, in-person AI hackathon hosted by Glasswing Ventures at 275 Newbury Street in Boston on September 26 and 27, 2026. One weekend, and $300,000 in compute credits on the line for the team that wins.
The brief is Enterprise-Ready AI. Teams build AI-native solutions to problems enterprises actually have, not AI features bolted onto existing workflows. What gets rewarded is a working product demoed live, with a credible path to deployment and a measurable return.
Compute and engineering support are provided throughout the weekend, backed by AWS, Microsoft Azure, and TensorWave. Meals are covered both days.
Schedule. Saturday: registration and breakfast at 9:30 AM, welcome remarks at 10:00, team formation and compute setup at 10:30, building from 11:30 AM until 8:00 PM. Sunday: doors at 9:30 AM, hard code freeze at 2:00 PM, team presentations from 2:00 to 4:30, awards ceremony 4:30 to 5:30.
Who should apply: technical builders, individually or in teams of up to four. Solo applicants and partial teams are matched with other qualified builders. Admission is by application and reviewed on a rolling basis, so applying early matters. Applications close September 19, 2026. Free to participate.
Apply at https://luma.com/gzpv85yq
Glasswing Ventures is a Boston-based venture firm with over $450M in AUM, investing in AI and frontier-technology companies at the earliest stages.
Requirements
What to build: an AI-native solution to a real enterprise problem. The AI should be load-bearing, not decorative. Judges want something that works, not a slide about something that could work.
What to submit, before the 2:00 PM code freeze on Sunday: a working demo you can run live; a short statement of the customer problem and who would buy the fix; the business case, meaning what outcome improves and how a buyer would measure it; your operational assumptions around data, security, and integration; and a link to your repo or deployed project.
Every team presents live to the judging panel between 2:00 and 4:30 PM on Sunday. Judging is on four criteria: Customer Problem, Business Case, Operational Fit, and AI Differentiation.
- Submissions open
- Sep 26, 2026
- Deadline
- Sep 27, 2026
- First seen
- Aug 19, 2026
- Last seen
- Sep 18, 2026