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Platanus Hack 26 Bogotá (LATAM Tour)
Organized by Platanus (LATAM startup accelerator).
- Dates
- 21–23 Aug 2026
- Format
- in person
- Where
- Buk Colombia offices · Bogotá
- Participants
- 120
- Teams
- 24
- Team size
- [object Object]
- Results
- submissions only
How it is judged
No published rubric. Infer lenses from the judge profile and the prizes.
Hacking alongside Anthropic. A public voting page exists; official results page not retrievable on 2026-09-14.
Prizes and lanes
| Prize | Reward | Criteria |
|---|---|---|
| Cash pool | USD 3,000 split among winners; best team goes to the LATAM final in Chile (November) |
Submissions and base rates
Full roster. All 24 submissions are indexed, so track and domain counts are real base rates.
By track
By domain
| Project | Placement | Track | Domains |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aegis Stops your data leaking to ChatGPT and ~170 other AIs, deciding on-device and explaining each block. | Submitted | AI Security |
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| AuXio Two-way simultaneous interpreter for emergency (123) calls that preserves critical words and alerts family. | Submitted | Emergencies |
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| Bus Factor HQ Arcade simulator of organizational emergencies: what breaks if your key person is gone tomorrow. | Submitted | Emergencies |
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| complAI Watches Colombian regulation for your company, alerts you where you live and opens the PR that makes you compliant. | Submitted | Access |
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| deley.com Know your judge before you face them. | Submitted | Access |
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| dipia Simulates the life that hasn't happened yet with the people already in your room. | Submitted | Simulations |
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| Helius Phone-to-phone emergency network to detect, locate and assist people during an earthquake, even without internet. | Submitted | Emergencies |
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| Hippocamp Your network's memory, before you publish. | Submitted | Simulations |
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| HIVE Estimates how many people will comply with a policy and who bears the cost. | Submitted | Simulations |
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| Moirai Reads your blood test, simulates ten thousand ten-year futures and names the decision costing you the most years. | Submitted | Simulations |
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| NeuroEcho Audio synthesis engine generating new music that replicates the neural response of your favorite songs. | Submitted | Simulations |
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| Pa'lante Extracts and normalizes scattered financial context (email, PDFs, tax, credit bureau) and shares it with any AI agent via API/MCP with revocable per-section consent. | Submitted | Access |
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| Parallax Simulate a change before applying it, then measure how much of it was real. | Submitted | Simulations |
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| Peaje Put a toll on your website so AI agents discover it, use it and pay you. | Submitted | Access |
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| PLUMB Detects and prioritizes irregularity signals in Colombian public-works contracting using SECOP II data. | Submitted | Access |
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| Provenance Firewall Agent memory can change shape but cannot gain authority without explicit authorization. | Submitted | AI Security |
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| PULSE Unified emergency-security logic platform. | Submitted | Emergencies |
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| PULSO From a paramedic's dictation to the hospital that can actually receive the patient, in under 90 seconds. | Submitted | Emergencies |
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| Replica Emergency communication network that keeps working when infrastructure collapses. | Submitted | Emergencies |
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| Roxy When agents delegate to other agents, verifies every action before it touches your data — and proves it. | Submitted | AI Security |
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| Stegora The creator's signature lives inside the file, not in a label that disappears when shared. | Submitted | AI Security |
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| TEMIS Voice assistant helping people draft and file health-rights legal actions with verifiable legal information. | Submitted | Access |
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| Vity Which building falls in the next earthquake, who it falls on and what it costs to prevent. | Submitted | Simulations |
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| WOKI Ask for help and coordinate rescues without internet, with remote visibility once the network returns. | Submitted | Emergencies |
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Priors from other startup accelerator events
No confirmed winners from other events of this kind yet. Use patterns by kind of event and treat any prior as weak.
Curator note. hack.platan.us root still lists Bogotá as 11–13 Sep 2026 (stale tour table); the edition page and organizer post say 21–23 Aug. /26-co/vote/results returned a server error. Emergencies was the most crowded track with Simulations (7 each).
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Sources
- https://hack.platan.us/26-co/vote — Lists all submissions by track. Not results.
- https://hack.platan.us/26-co — Dates 21–23 Aug 2026, 120 hackers.
- https://es.linkedin.com/posts/natochi_platanus-hack-llega-a-bogot%C3%A1-%C3%BAltimos-activity-7493697094302572546-1Iyn — Organizer post: 36h with Anthropic at Buk, USD 3,000, teams of 3–5, best team to Chile final.