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Where bold ideas are mined, get recruited, are refined, get funded, are launched, and become reality.
Converge AI funds, mentors, and accelerates students and innovators — connecting them with the capital, expertise, and community to build what's next.
What a year at Converge looks like
We never clock out.
Scouting emerging ideas, recruiting new organizations into our network, and carrying innovations all the way to market — without an off-season.
Finding the founders.
We recruit and pressure-test each cohort, separating the merely promising from the teams genuinely ready to be refined.
Signal from the noise.
We comb through entire fields of hackathon winners to surface the few ideas with real teeth.
Mentorship that compounds.
Every track is a twelve-week sprint that turns a rough prototype into a chartered, fundable company.
Heads down, on the road.
Shoulder to shoulder with teams, hyper-prototyping new opportunities until they actually work.
Two shots a year.
We prep, run, and break down two full hackathon seasons — the front door to everything that follows.
Launch world-changing ideas.
Converge AI — we Accelerate Innovation.
This Is How We Spark Ideas.
Lift-off
It starts with a spark.
An idea you can't stop thinking about. A problem you keep poking at. Or maybe just a hunger to build something — and we'll spark the rest.
Stage 1 — The Hackathon
You bring it to the table.
A weekend, a team, a deadline. Real problems, and the kind of pressure that forces something useful to ship.
Stage 2 — The Collective
You take the stage.
Twice a year we fly the winners out to our biggest gatherings — to present in front of a crowd of thousands.
Stage 3 — The Gauntlet
Then we put you through the gauntlet.
Mentors push. Peers challenge. Your idea sharpens into something real — or pivots into something better.
Stage 4 — The Fork
You hit a decision point.
You've built something that works. The accelerator splits into multiple outcomes — and we've watched every one play out.
Outcomes
Funded. Acquired. Hired.
Up to $250,000 in seed capital. Acquisitions before graduation. Offers at the companies your mentors run.
Orbit
A whole new level of existence.
Acceleration isn't a stage — it's a status. You stay in the network for life: as a mentor, an investor, the next person to pick up the phone.
By the numbers, every year
Real Impact. Real Results.
Students Engaged
Projects Incubated
Schools & Universities
Active Mentors
Academic partners
Schools We've Worked With
Partnering with universities and high schools across the US and globally to bring real-world innovation opportunities to students.
MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Carnegie Mellon
Georgia Tech
Cornell
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Purdue
Northwestern
Princeton
NYU
U of Michigan
UIUC
Brown
Tufts
Rice
Northeastern
UC Berkeley
Duke
In the field
Where Innovation Happens
From 48-hour build sprints to full innovation summits — this is what it looks like when ideas get real.
World Economic Forum 2025
World Economic Forum 2025
Converge AI joined Hedera at the World Economic Forum, bringing student innovation to the global stage alongside policymakers, technologists, and the world's most influential leaders in business and finance.
Student Pitch Day
Student Pitch Day
Founders took the stage to present their startups to a room of investors, mentors, and peers — from raw ideas to polished decks, the energy in the room was electric.
Demo Day Spring 2025
Demo Day Spring 2025
The spring cohort unveiled their finished products to a packed room of investors and community partners — months of work, six minutes on stage, zero excuses.
Fintech Innovation Summit
Fintech Innovation Summit
Regulators, financial institutions, and global leaders in finance and fintech gathered to shape the future of the industry.
Harvard Hackathon 2025
Harvard Hackathon 2025
Harvard's campus played host to an intense weekend of building, where student teams tackled real-world problems using AI tools and rapid prototyping under real time pressure.
Duke Hackathon 2026
Duke Hackathon 2026
Teams of Duke students and collaborators went head-to-head in a 48-hour build sprint, pitching AI-powered solutions to a panel of judges from industry and academia.
Mentor Matchmaking
Mentor Matchmaking
One-on-one sessions between student founders and seasoned mentors. These conversations turned into internships, co-founder relationships, and lifelong career connections.
The Launch
100+ Students & Investors.
One Room. Dallas.
A private launch event that brought together the next generation of builders and the investors ready to back them. Watch what happened in the room.
Partners & sponsors
Backed by the Best
From global tech leaders to community credit unions — our network is built on people who believe in what we're building.
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