AngelHack

AngelHack is a global hackathon organization. It began in San Francisco with its first hackathon in December 2011 at Adobe and has expanded to over 105 cities globally and 53 countries in the past eight years. The company primarily organizes hackathons, but has recently expanded into innovation consulting, virtual hackathons, acceleration and incubation.

AngelHack
IndustryHackathons
Founded2011 (2011)
FoundersSabeen Ali and Greg Gopman
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California

The company has a developer community of 250,000 members.[1] The company also claims to have twenty-one percent (21%) female membership, well above the industry average.

Annual Global Hackathon Competition

AngelHack hosts an annual global hackathon competition where entrants compete to build and launch new software over the course of 36-hours. Hackathon events are hosted in several cities around the world and winning teams are chosen to receive acceptance into the AngelHack Hackcelerator program.

Every year the competition has a non-technical theme which inspires its developer community to do better and to think outside of the typical developer mindset.

AngelHack HACKcelerator

AngelHack also runs the HACKcelerator,[2] a pre-accelerator program that provides mentorship to entrepreneurs and showcases companies to investors. Notable AngelHack HACKcelerator teams include WeFunder and Microryza,[3] both of which have been inducted to Y-Combinator.[4] Another HACKcelerator project, Waigo Translate, has been inducted into 500 Startups.[5] Two HACKcelerator graduates have been acquired by Google: SlickLogin[6] and Appetas.[7] Another team, Osper, was able to raise over $10 million in seed-funding. In 2015 AtumSoft secured their first $100,000 in funding from Lab360 and facetime with Y-Combinator.[8]

Ownership

Gregory Gopman founded AngelHack with Krystyl Baldwin in 2011.[9] When Krystyl had left, Sabeen Ali joined as Co-Founder in 2012. The two had a rather public and contemptuous separation. Gopman was reported[10] to have stolen company funds and former employees recall Gopman as never being around and “galavanting abroad”. In February 2014 then Co-Founder and CEO sued Gopman.

Currently, AngelHack is a female-owned, female-majority company.

Lawsuit Sabeen Ali v. Gregory Gopman

In the lawsuit[11] filed in a California State Superior Court, Gopman's co-founder and AngelHack CEO Sabeen Ali accuses Gopman of removing Ali from the company bank accounts without authorization while diverting $70,000 to his credit card debt, and $4,500 a month to pay his rent. Gopman is also accused of allegedly changing AngelHack corporate account information, including the passwords to social media accounts, and emailing all AngelHack employees claiming that he would fire them.

According to the suit, the trouble began right around the time that Gopman and Ali signed an agreement replacing Gopman as AngelHack CEO. The suit claims breach of contract and seeks an injunction against Gopman.

Sabeen Ali

Prior to AngelHack, Sabeen founded and sold her own leadership training and organizational development company; Team Building ROI, which provided leadership and organizational development training to companies such as Google, IBM, Blackberry, NetApp, Cisco, and others. She holds an M.S. in Organization Development from the University of San Francisco and is an expert in change management.

She speaks internationally to corporate, nonprofit and student audiences on rapid innovation, entrepreneurship, acceleration, women in tech initiatives, and more. She has received numerous accolades for her work, most recently including the Harari Conscious Leadership and Social Innovation award. Her work with AngelHack and CFAC has been highlighted in Inc., Fast Company,[12] Voice of America,[13][14] and featured in the hit documentary: Seed.[15]

Acquisitions

AngelHack announced its first acquisition in 2016.[16] Codeity, a developer recruiting platform.

References
  1. Mackin, Scott (15 November 2013). "AngelHack Barcelona: Join the Largest Hackathon on the Planet". BarcInno.
  2. Ha, Anthony (21 March 2013). "AngelHack Launches A Startup Accelerator, Bringing Its Hackathon To 30+ Cities This Spring". TechCrunch.
  3. "Y Combinator Backed Microryza is a Kickstarter for Science". Crowdfund Insider. 25 February 2013.
  4. Lawler, Ryan (19 March 2013). "Y Combinator-Backed WeFunder Launches To Bring Crowdfunding Startups To The Masses". TechCrunch.
  5. Millward, Steve (17 December 2012). "Waigo App is a Pair of Eyes That Helps You Get a Bellyful of Chinese Food". TechInAsia.
  6. Kumparak, Greg (16 February 2014). "Google Acquires SlickLogin, The Sound-Based Password Alternative". TechCrunch.
  7. Lunden, Ingrid (7 May 2014). "To Battle Yelp, Google Buys Appetas, A Website Builder For Restaurants". TechCrunch.
  8. Venturella, Patrick (25 February 2016). "There and Back Again: Atumsoft's Journey from #StartupCincy to Global Demo Day". Cintrifuse.
  9. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/angelhack
  10. D'Onfro, Jillian (27 February 2014). "The Tech Founder Who Ranted Against Homeless 'Trash' Is Accused Of Using Startup Money To Pay Credit Card Debt". BusinessInsider.
  11. "Lawsuit Sabeen Ali v. Gregory Gopman". 4 February 2014.
  12. Elias, Jennifer (14 May 2014). "Why Do Big Companies Do Hackathons?". FastCompany.
  13. Lee, Elizabeth (31 January 2017). "Global Hackathons Turn Ideas Into Entrepreneurial Reality". Voice of America.
  14. Lee, Elizabeth (8 February 2017). "Silicon Valley Group Turns Ideas Into Businesses". Voice of America.
  15. . Prime Video https://www.amazon.com/Seed-Sabeen-Ali/dp/B06Y15DP58. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  16. "AngelHack Makes its First Acquisition of 2016 as it Expands into Recruiting". 5 April 2016.
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