CamelHack 2026

The Full Story

From New York boardrooms to demo day: how four days of CamelHack 2026 unfolded.

CHAPTER 01
New York City · Thursday, October 8

NYC Tech Trek

One day. Five rooms. The founders and investors shaping what's next. Before a single team forms, CamelHack starts in New York.

CamelHack participants talking with a speaker in a New York subway station
5
stops
8
founders & investors
01
Oasis Security
×Cyera

Securing the AI era

Kicking off at the frontier of security, where AI meets identity and data.

Amit Zimmerman · Co-Founder & CPO, Oasis Security
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02
BoxGroup
×Basis

The agentic economy, reimagined

A legendary seed investor and the founder building AI agents for accounting, on what happens when software starts doing the work.

David Tisch · Co-Founder & Managing Partner, BoxGroup
Mitchell Troyanovsky · Co-Founder & CTO, Basis
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03
Lux Capital
×Cognition

Deep tech meets the AI engineer

Science-fiction-to-science-fact investing, meets the team building autonomous software engineers.

Josh Wolfe · Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital
Ron Miasnik · Head of BD, Cognition
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04
Battery Ventures
×Array

The B2B fintech playbook

How to sell to banks and enterprises, from first pilot to scale, with Battery Ventures and Array's CEO.

Brandon Gleklen · Partner, Battery Ventures
Martin Toha · CEO, Array
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05
Andreessen Horowitz
×Runway

Closing Dinner with A16Z and Runway

Runway's co-founder on big visions, creative AI, and catching the wave before everyone else.

Alejandro Matamala-Ortiz · Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, Runway
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CHAPTER 02
Friday evening

Shabbat dinner

After a day in New York's boardrooms, we slowed down. Participants, mentors, and partners gathered around one long table for Shabbat dinner.

Candles, challah, and the kind of conversations that turn strangers into co-founders.

CHAPTER 03
The weekend

48 hours of building

Then the laptops opened. Fifty builders from Harvard, MIT, and Israel's top tech units spent 48 hours turning ideas into working products.

Mentors and investors from our partner funds were in the room the whole way: pushing, challenging, and helping teams ship.

CHAPTER 04
Final day

Demo day

Every team took the stage to show what they built, in front of judges, investors, and partners.

For many it was only the beginning: seven teams are already raising, some from partners they met right here.

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