What Devpost does

Devpost operates a two-sided hackathon platform that connects developers (referred to as "Makers") with organizations ("Posters") who host software innovation competitions. The company runs two primary products: the public Devpost.com platform, where developers worldwide browse and participate in hackathons and showcase software projects, and Devpost for Teams (devpost.team), an enterprise add-on that enables corporations to run private internal hackathons with SSO authentication, custom registration, project templates, built-in judging tools, and reporting dashboards. The platform is built on Ruby on Rails, hosted on AWS via Engine Yard and Heroku, with MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, nginx on Gentoo/Ubuntu Linux, and supports social login via GitHub, Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn with Bcrypt-hashed passwords.

Devpost monetizes through enterprise subscription revenue from Devpost for Teams customers (e.g., SAP, Valenz Health, Grafana Labs, Okta) running internal innovation and AI adoption programs, while public hackathons appear to be supported by sponsor relationships with major technology brands including Microsoft, Google, Meta, AWS, Atlassian, Okta, and Square. The company serves a hybrid customer base spanning large enterprise corporations seeking internal innovation infrastructure, technology companies running developer ecosystem engagement campaigns, and AI-focused organizations using hackathons for workforce upskilling.

The company is privately held, headquartered in New York, with 11–50 employees and approximately $10.5M in cumulative disclosed funding across two rounds (2009: $4.1M led by Opus Capital; 2018: $6.4M). Devpost maintains GDPR and CCPA compliance certifications and reports customer outcomes including 25% of hackathon projects shipping to production and over 50% of submitted projects achieving immediate production capacity for enterprise customers.

Name

Devpost

Legal name

Devpost, Inc.

Website

https://devpost.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Devpost operates a two-sided hackathon platform connecting developers with organizations hosting software competitions, offering both public hackathons via devpost.com and the Devpost for Teams enterprise solution for internal corporate innovation and AI adoption programs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hackathon Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Developer Experience (DevEx) Tooling & Productivity Engineering (BPAEAKAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

DevOps Consulting & Transformation (BPAEAKAA), DevSecOps & Supply Chain Security (DevOps toolchain security) (BPAEAKAI)

Keywords

• Hackathon management platform
• Developer community platform
• Enterprise innovation software
• Internal hackathon tools
• AI hackathon platform

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Devpost for Teams Subscription: Enterprise-level subscription service for companies to run internal/private hackathons. Provides secure authenticated access, custom registration, project templates, judging tools, and reporting capabilities. Companies like Valenz Health, Okta, and Grafana Labs use this service for internal innovation programs.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Devpost operates a two-sided hackathon platform where developers ("Makers") create profiles and submit software projects to public hackathons hosted by organizations ("Posters"), and Devpost for Teams is a private, secure enterprise add-on enabling companies to run internal corporate hackathons with SSO authentication, custom registration, project templates, built-in judging tools, and reporting dashboards. The platform also supports AI-focused internal hackathons for workforce upskilling and rapid prototyping of agents and automated workflows.

Product overview

Devpost operates as a two-sided hackathon platform comprising the core public Devpost platform (devpost.com) where developers participate in public hackathons and showcase software projects, and Devpost for Teams (devpost.team) as an enterprise add-on enabling organizations to host private internal hackathons with secure SSO, custom registration, built-in judging tools, and detailed reporting. The product portfolio also includes the Internal Hackathons for AI Adoption sub-product focused on enterprise AI workforce upskilling, plus planning resources such as the Internal Company Hackathon Template and Planning Kit for operational guidance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Devpost for Teams: Enterprise solution for internal company hackathons that provides secure, authenticated access via SSO, custom registration, hackathon templates, built-in judging tools, and reporting for high-stakes internal events.

Products and services

• Devpost Public hackathon platform that connects developers (Makers) who create and share software projects with organizations (Posters) hosting hackathons to drive software innovation, developer engagement, and platform adoption. Includes profile creation, project submission, team formation, judging, and voting tools.
• Devpost for Teams Enterprise subscription product that provides a private, secure environment for organizations to run internal hackathons, featuring SSO authentication, custom registration, project templates, built-in judging and voting tools, and detailed reporting for employee innovation, team building, and internal tool development.
• Internal Hackathons for AI Adoption Sub-product of Devpost for Teams focused on AI-specific internal hackathons, enabling companies to upskill employees on AI, build functional agents and automated workflows, and identify production-ready AI prototypes through hands-on experimentation.

Quantifiable outcome

• 25% of hackathon projects ship to production, 10-15% reach roadmap
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• MNEEminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 3 December 2025MNEE, a USD-backed stablecoin, partnered with Devpost to host a $50,000 virtual hackathon challenging developers to create applications for programmable money on Ethereum. Devpost provides the platform infrastructure for the hackathon event.
• HackerOneminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 April 2024Press mention of interview with HackerOne discussing hackathons and live hacking, indicating a strategic relationship between two hackathon platform providers.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Topcoder: Topcoder operates competitive programming challenges and hackathons, including enterprise crowdsourcing competitions, overlapping with Devpost's public-hackathon organizer business.
• HackerRank: HackerRank combines coding challenges, hackathons, and developer assessments for enterprise recruiting, competing with Devpost for enterprise innovation and developer engagement budgets.
• HackerOne: HackerOne hosts bug bounty and live hacking events for security researchers, overlapping with Devpost in the hackathon-event infrastructure space (referenced as a partner in Devpost's own data).
• HackerEarth: HackerEarth runs enterprise hackathons and developer evaluation programs, directly competing with Devpost for Teams for internal corporate hackathon business while also operating a developer community.

Others

• CircleCI: CircleCI is a developer-tooling platform (CI/CD) that has historically sponsored Devpost hackathons and represents the type of enterprise developer-tools company Devpost serves as a community-engagement channel.
• Atlassian: Atlassian is a Devpost customer/trusted partner (per the website logo wall) and an enterprise collaboration incumbent whose tools are often used to run internal hackathons that Devpost for Teams helps organize and measure.

Broad incumbents

• GitHub: GitHub is a broad developer platform that includes social coding, project hosting, and increasingly event/community features, and serves as a competitive gravitational center for developer communities that Devpost aggregates.
• Kaggle: Kaggle (a Google subsidiary) runs data science competitions and community challenges at massive scale, a structural analog to Devpost's public hackathon business in a different vertical.
• Eventbrite: Eventbrite is a broad event-management platform that some organizers use for hackathon logistics; Devpost's domain-specific tooling differentiates it, but Eventbrite represents the generic incumbent.
• Stack Overflow: Stack Overflow is a broad developer community and knowledge platform with enterprise offerings, competing for the same enterprise budget line items (developer engagement, community) as Devpost for Teams.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/devpost
• Facebookfacebook.com/devposthacks
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/devpost
• Instagraminstagram.com/devposthq/?hl=en

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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