DSU DEVHACK 3.0
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Dayananda Sagar University's national 36-hour hackathon for student developers, designers, and innovators, featuring a total prize pool of ₹20 Lakhs+.
- Funding amount
- Up to ₹20 Lakhs
- Funding type
- Competition
- Provider
- Dayananda Sagar University
- Application deadline
- Rolling
- Location
- Open to startups registered in India
About this competition
DSU DevHack 3.0 is the third edition of Dayananda Sagar University’s flagship national hackathon, designed as a premier 36-hour high-stakes arena. This event challenges the country’s brightest student developers, designers, and innovators to transform raw ideas into production-ready solutions. It emphasizes pushing technical boundaries, navigating intense engineering constraints, and solving real-world problems under pressure.
Who Should Apply This hackathon is ideal for student developers, designers, and innovators from across India who are eager to build breakthrough AI applications, master blockchain architectures, or develop hardware-software integrations. Participants will engage in continuous coding, high-octane collaboration, and rapid prototyping.
Tracks & Themes While specific tracks are not detailed, the hackathon encourages projects in areas such as AI applications, blockchain architectures, and hardware-software integrations, providing a broad scope for innovation.
Format & Timeline The event is a 36-hour continuous building marathon, taking place physically in Ramanagara, India. Participants will benefit from direct feedback, technical guidance, and architecture reviews from industry experts and veterans throughout the hackathon.
Prizes DSU DevHack 3.0 offers a massive total prize pool exceeding ₹20,00,000. Specific cash prizes for top ranks include:
- Winner: ₹1,00,000
- First Runner-Up: ₹75,000
- Second Runner-Up: ₹25,000
Beyond cash, participants will gain unparalleled networking opportunities with a massive community of like-minded builders, tech leaders, and corporate sponsors.
Eligibility Open to student developers, designers, and innovators from across India. The competition is a national event focused on fostering talent within the country.
How to Apply Interested participants can register through the official Devfolio application link. Prepare to think it, code it, and ship it!
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Organizers
Dayananda Sagar University (DSU) Dayananda Sagar University, established in 2014 under the Karnataka Private Universities Act, is a multi-disciplinary private university located in Bangalore, Karnataka. With roots in the Dayananda Sagar Institutions (DSI) — one of South India's…
Learn morePrizes & Awards
- Amount
- Up to ₹20 Lakhs
What You Get
- Total prize pool of \u20b920,00,000+.
- Cash prizes: \u20b91,00,000 for winner, \u20b975,000 for first runner-up, \u20b925,000 for second runner-up.
- Direct feedback, technical guidance, and architecture reviews from industry experts.
- Networking opportunities with builders, tech leaders, and corporate sponsors.
- Bootstrap friendly
- Yes
How to apply
Four steps from draft to disbursement — one action each.
- 1
Submit on the official portal
Use the official application link and verify all details before final submission.
- 2
Follow up
Reach out 5–7 days after submitting to confirm receipt and ask about the review timeline.
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