​Bio x AI Hackathon at Entrepreneur First London

​Could you be one of the exceptional biologist or machine learning innovators selected to participate in EF's second annual, weekend-long Bio x AI Hackathon?

​​Join a curated group of talented scientists and engineers with diverse skills and backgrounds, united by a shared mission; to drive breakthroughs in biology through leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence.

This year, we're excited to announce partnerships with Amino Collective, an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in health and bio to help life-changing ideas come to life, and Valence Labs, who will provide access to their Polaris platform – a powerful new tool that allows the ML community working on drug discovery problems to easily share and access datasets.

​If you're a skilled biologist or machine learning specialist eager to collaborate with other world-class technologists and develop AI-enabled tools that address some of the most ambitious challenges in biology, this hackathon is tailor-made for you!

​​Apply now!

Application Deadline: 25th of October

​​Event Date: 2nd - 3rd of November

​Prizes:

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1st Place:

• ​£2k Cash Prize

• ​Team lunch with Matt Clifford (Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First; Chair, ARIA) & EF's Talent Investors.

• ​Ideation and Team building Workshop at EF.

​2nd Place:

• ​Team lunch with Matt Clifford (Co-Founder of Entrepreneur First; Chair, ARIA) & EF's Talent Investors.

• ​More TBA...

​Hackathon Agenda:

​Day 1:

• ​Registration + Breakfast and Coffee

• ​Intros

• ​Team Finalisation

• ​Hackathon Starts ⏳

• ​Lunch

• ​Hackathon Continues

​Day 2:

• ​Breakfast and Coffee

• ​Hackathon Continues and Finishes ⌛

• ​Presentations and Judging

• ​Prize Giving

• ​Lunch and Closing Events​

​About Entrepreneur First:

​Entrepreneur First invests in exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch. We bring together talented outliers to develop their most ambitious ideas and raise money from the world’s best investors.

​Since pioneering Talent Investing in 2014, we’ve learned to recognize individuals with extraordinary futures before anyone else, embedding them in a community of ambitious peers and giving them the tools they need to succeed, fast. We back them before they have a company, a team, even before they have an idea, based purely on talent.

​​​The startups cofounded on our programs are now worth over $10B, and include Tractable, Magic Pony Technology, Cleo, La Vie, Aztec, Sonantic, and many more.

​​​EF is backed by some of the world's leading founders and investors, including Patrick and John Collison (Stripe); Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Tom Blomfield (GoCardless and Monzo), Sara Clemens (Whatnot and Twitch); Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind); and Matt Mullenweg (Wordpress). We exist to make great companies happen that otherwise wouldn’t.