genEquality Hackathon

2018-2019 genEquality Hackathon

The inaugural genEquality Hackathon kicked off in New York City during Global Citizen Week and the UN General Assembly in September 2018 and continued with Hack Nights and events through January 2019.

Participants were assigned a Hackathon Mentor, and had access to a roster of expert advisors from organizations such as Vice, Google, Microsoft, ideas42, as well as exclusive partner resources such as $5,000 in Amazon Web Services (AWS) credits.

Two-thirds of our inaugural Hackathon participants were women and hailed from around the world, including across the US, Mexico, Germany, India, Myanmar, and Japan.

At the inaugural Showcase + Pitch Competition, we learned about and saw demos from a variety of participants and teams on tech + tools they have developed.

Our Judges Panel included executives and investors from Giphy, JustWorks, Wired, PlumAlley, and the Wharton Angel Investor Network.

Our participants and teams pitched for up to $10,000 in seed funding and prizes that include 1:1 advisory time with a partner from Y Combinator.

The inaugural genEquality Hackathon Pitch Competition winners are:

• MonumentAll
  An augmented-reality app that helps navigate the world of public monuments and memorials using a more gender-inclusive lens.
  
  

• Constitute
  A Twitter-based app that analyzes and raises awareness of online rhetoric towards female politicians and candidates.
  
  

• WMN
  A corporate diagnostics app that quantifies the impact of empowerment initiatives in the workplace.