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Platanus Hack 26 Buenos Aires (LATAM Tour)

Organized by Platanus (LATAM startup accelerator).

Dates
8–10 May 2026
Format
in person
Where
Buenos Aires
Participants
110
Teams
25
Results
submissions only

How it is judged

No published rubric. Infer lenses from the judge profile and the prizes.

Public voting page exists; official results page not retrievable on 2026-09-14.

Submissions and base rates

Full roster. All 25 submissions are indexed, so track and domain counts are real base rates.

By track

  • vertical ai8/25
  • future7/25
  • ai security6/25
  • agentic money4/25

By domain

  • ai security6/25
  • agentic payments5/25
  • identity provenance4/25
  • agent infrastructure3/25
  • dev tools3/25
  • marketing growth3/25
  • education2/25
  • health2/25
ProjectPlacementTrackDomains
Addie
AI agents negotiate in real time for ad seconds on your stream and pay in USDC on-chain.
SubmittedAgentic Money
  • agentic payments
  • marketing growth
alethIA
Gets you closer to the fact, not the news story.
SubmittedFuture
  • identity provenance
Atajo
Conversational AI agent agnostic to financial accounts.
SubmittedAgentic Money
  • agentic payments
  • fintech
BETO
The tech-savvy friend for older adults.
SubmittedVertical AI
  • accessibility
  • social connection
brunito
Automates end-to-end curriculum management from planning to assessment.
SubmittedVertical AI
  • education
casita-fast
Real-estate agent that searches, filters and contacts sellers to find property faster.
SubmittedVertical AI
  • real estate
Consentinel
No tagline shown.
SubmittedFuture
  • identity provenance
Gohan
Smart personal trainer inside your gym's apps: MCP and AI chat as a service.
SubmittedVertical AI
  • health
  • agent infrastructure
Hackan't
Protects Claude Code from malicious repos that try to execute code through hooks and compromised tool calls.
SubmittedAI Security
  • ai security
  • dev tools
Helix
Autonomous multi-agent PM that finds opportunities, codes multivariate experiments behind flags, measures with Thompson sampling and deletes losing variants.
SubmittedVertical AI
  • dev tools
  • productivity
KnowAhuman
Talent–startup matching where AI agents converse and evaluate real fit.
SubmittedFuture
  • careers hr
MCD
Replaces CROs by capturing patient adherence data via WhatsApp AI for pharma labs.
SubmittedVertical AI
  • health
negocIA
Native marketplace for agents that make your life easier.
SubmittedAgentic Money
  • agentic payments
  • commerce retail
Omni
Connects each teammate's AI agents so project knowledge is always available without waiting on a person.
SubmittedFuture
  • productivity
  • agent infrastructure
Orbit
AI tutor that only teaches what you uploaded.
SubmittedFuture
  • education
T2M
Agentic go-to-market.
SubmittedVertical AI
  • marketing growth
team-26 (untitled on voting page)
No name or tagline shown on the voting page.
SubmittedAgentic Money
  • agentic payments
Tranquera
A controlled gate between intent and response.
SubmittedAI Security
  • ai security
Twin
Portable digital self: a 'login with Google' for your personality.
SubmittedFuture
  • identity provenance
Verbalize
Audits what an LLM is thinking while it talks, not just what it says.
SubmittedAI Security
  • ai security
Verenice
Autonomous marketing team any Latin American micro-entrepreneur can afford.
SubmittedVertical AI
  • marketing growth
Vibefence
Your AI has root. Vibefence takes it away.
SubmittedAI Security
  • ai security
  • dev tools
wardlm
OS-level security layer for agents.
SubmittedAI Security
  • ai security
yieldOS
Security suite with oracles for AI agents: the model proposes, evidence decides.
SubmittedAI Security
  • ai security
  • agentic payments
zero.
The identity layer for the agentic internet.
SubmittedFuture
  • identity provenance
  • agent infrastructure

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. AI Security (6) and Vertical AI (8) dominated. /26-ar/vote/results returned a server error.

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Sources

  1. https://hack.platan.us/26-ar/vote · voting page · retrieved 2026-09-14 — Lists all submissions by track. Not results.
  2. https://hack.platan.us/26-ar · official event page · retrieved 2026-09-14 — 8–10 May 2026, 110 hackers (page also shows a 120 figure).
  3. https://github.com/platanus-hack/platanus-hack-26-ar-team-26 · repo · retrieved 2026-09-14 — Confirms team-26 track Agentic Money.