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Ana Ruiz
Product Designer · Mexico City
89%Team Fit
Figma · UX Research · Pitch
🏆 0 wins🥈 2 finalist💻 7 competitions
- Covers your design + pitch gap
- Same timezone
- 2 finalist appearances
- ⚠️Prefers in-person build sessions
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MIT Innovation Challenge
Take a technical prototype to an investable narrative. Mentored track with weekly checkpoints before finals.
- Dates
- Nov 14 – Nov 16, 2026
- Deadline
- Nov 3 · closes in 27 days
- Team size
- Teams of 3–5
- Prize
- $25,000 USD funding
Requirements
Eligibility
StudentGraduateStartup
Skills
ProductBusinessPresentation
Submission
Repository, 3-minute demo video and a short deck by the submission deadline.
Timeline
- •Applicationsuntil Nov 3
- •Mentor matchingNov 6
- •FinalsNov 16
Good for your Skill Tree
Completing this challenge would progress:
- Product+3 evidence
- Business+2 evidence
- Presentation+1 evidence
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Rodrigo Vela
Business Developer · Monterrey
83%Team Fit
Go-to-market · Partnerships · Financial Model · Sales
🏆 2 wins🥈 4 finalist💻 13 competitions
- Turns demos into business cases
- Strong at case + startup competitions
- ⚠️Limited hackathon weekend availability