🧠 SXSW Sydney 2025 AI Hackathon: 90 Builders, 8 Hours, and a Whole Lot of Magic
Saanvi
Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:01:24 GMT
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Ninety builders. One massive 8-hour sprint.</p><p>That’s what went down at the SXSW Sydney 2025 AI Hackathon, and we’re still buzzing from it.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://buildclub.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Build Club Wrapped! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Together with<strong> SXSW Sydney</strong> and the <strong>National AI Centr</strong>e, we hosted Australia’s biggest AI hackathon. It was four days of deep dives, demos, and drop-everything builds, all leading up to one high-stakes Sunday where 23 teams shipped, pitched, and dreamed in real time.</p><p>Within 24 hours, the top five teams were on the Discovery Stage, presenting live to judges, founders, and hundreds of curious attendees. Some had barely slept. All of them brought the kind of energy that reminds you why hackathons exist: to create, to learn, and to launch ideas that might just stick.</p><div><hr></div><h3>🥇 Winner: InvestiGate – “DealFlow AI”</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LK71!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0c116c0-b024-4834-a145-88794b2dee51_800x533.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LK71!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0c116c0-b024-4834-a145-88794b2dee51_800x533.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p><strong>Team:</strong> Sanyam Jain, Samarth Achwale, Namit Khurana<br><strong>Website:</strong> <a href="https://campus.buildclub.ai/projects/0199f0db-9fa6-789c-b2ad-22e81f637aa6">InvestiGate Project</a></p><p>If venture capital had an autopilot, this would be it.</p><p>InvestiGate automates venture capital deal sourcing by turning any startup website into an investment-ready one-pager, helping investors discover promising founders faster and helping startups get noticed.</p><p>Over the weekend, the team from UNSW built, iterated, and pitched non-stop. Their clarity and execution stood out immediately. One judge summed it up perfectly:</p><blockquote><p>“You’re the first ones not asking VCs for money, but actually trying to solve their problem.”</p></blockquote><p>That line captured what made InvestiGate special. They weren’t just coding for cool points. They were building around a real user pain.</p><blockquote><p>“We learned it’s not just what you build,” the team told us after. “It’s how you communicate it, the story, the clarity, the outcome.”</p></blockquote><p>They used Firecrawl, Lovable, Groq, Toolhouse, Manus AI, and Relevance AI to go from concept to working prototype in record time. Next up is mentorship with Antler to refine their product and pilot it with early users.</p><p>Winning is just the start for them, and we can’t wait to see where they take it.</p><div><hr></div><h3>🥈 1st Runner-Up: PAIO – “Agent Ops”</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xKmx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7607b53e-1f61-4f2b-8c47-7e6f8d5406d4_800x543.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xKmx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7607b53e-1f61-4f2b-8c47-7e6f8d5406d4_800x543.jpeg 424w, 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It’s part monitoring system, part peace of mind, and it couldn’t be more relevant as AI moves into the physical world.</p><p>Tobias’s thoughtful approach to AI safety and transparency earned him the runner-up spot and a lot of respect from the judges.</p><div><hr></div><h3>🥉 2nd Runner-Up: AI Supervisor (Super) – “Agent Ops”</h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!msFA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1f21ad8-e1bb-4fbb-b3b1-6179f877446e_800x516.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!msFA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb1f21ad8-e1bb-4fbb-b3b1-6179f877446e_800x516.jpeg 424w, 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x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Team:</strong> Shiney Zhang, Siddharth Choudhury, Maverick Cui<br><strong>Website:</strong> <a href="https://campus.buildclub.ai/projects/0199f0dc-d660-7c50-adae-be6b331ee102">AI Supervisor from Super AI</a> </p><p>Meet Super, the AI that watches the AIs.</p><p>Super is a meta-agent monitoring and self-healing system for AI operations. It doesn’t just monitor, it diagnoses and fixes agent issues automatically, keeping complex AI systems running smoothly.</p><p>It’s bold, technical, and practical. The team’s approach to agentic reliability and self-repair turned a lot of heads and earned them third place.</p><div><hr></div><h3>The Real Win: The Community</h3><p>Hackathons are never just about the prizes. They’re about the process, the messy middle where people push limits, share ideas, and discover what they’re capable of.</p><p>All weekend, we saw that builder mindset in action. Teams formed on the fly, swapped tools, debugged each other’s code, and still found time to cheer one another on.</p><p>We’re endlessly grateful to everyone who made it possible:<br>our partners at National AI Centre, SXSW Sydney, and City of Sydney!</p><p>You made this more than a hackathon. You made it a community.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Why We Build</h3><p>For us at Build Club, this weekend was a reminder of why we do what we do.</p><p>Hackathons aren’t just about shipping fast. They’re about learning faster. They’re where you test ideas, find collaborators, and remember that creativity isn’t a solo act.</p><p>As the InvestiGate team put it best:</p><blockquote><p>“SXSW reminded us why we do this — solve real problems, ship fast, and tell the story clearly.”</p></blockquote><p>Couldn’t agree more.</p><p>Here’s to the builders who keep showing up, staying curious, and creating the future one weekend at a time. We’re proud to build with you, and we can’t wait to do it again soon. 🚀</p><div><hr></div><p>If you were there, you know the feeling: the buzz, the chaos, the breakthroughs.<br>If you missed it, don’t worry. This is just the beginning.</p><p>See all the rest of the submissions here 👉<br>🔗 <a href="https://lnkd.in/ghYKtsKx">https://lnkd.in/ghYKtsKx</a></p><p><strong>– Team Build Club 💙</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{"url":"https://buildclub.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Build Club Wrapped! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email…" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>