c0mpiled-18: YC Startup School Hackathon - Taipei Edition

📅 Wednesday, November 11, 2026 | 6:00PM – 12:00AM

🍕Dinner, Drinks, and Snacks Provided | Free to Attend

🚀 Overview

Transpose Platform is excited to bring our c0mpiled hackathon series to Taiwan for the first time, just in time for the first-ever YC Startup School in Asia 💥

c0mpiled is a one-day, build-first hackathon: pick a topic from Y Combinator's Request for Startups, build on site, and get judged the way Silicon Valley judges early teams.

Since 2025 the series has run in San Francisco, Tokyo, UAE, Osaka, and Korea with YC alumni founders as judges and mentors at every edition.

🧩 Tracks:

Transpose Platform Track: YC Request For Startups

• Pick a topic and build on it!

CDIB Track: Financing the physical AI Buildout

• Make tools that help teams, lessors and investors price, monitor, and de-risk the hardware behind AI.

🎁 Prize Pool:

Transpose Platform

🥇 1st Place: Office Hours with YC Partner + $3,000

🥈 2nd Place: $1,300

🥉 3rd Place: $700

Winning teams also receive YC application mentoring from Transpose Platform and the visiting YC alumni founders.

CDIB Capital

🥇 1st Place: $3,000

🥈 2nd Place: $1,300

🥉 3rd Place: $700

🚀 Sponsors:

• CDIB Capital

  • CDIB Capital is one of Taiwan's longest-running investors in technology. For decades, it has backed companies in semiconductors, AI, energy and advanced manufacturing, from early-stage startups to established industry leaders.

• GMI Cloud

  • GMI Cloud is an AI inference cloud build on NVIDIA infrastructure. One API gives builders access to 200+ models across text, image, video and audio, plus a sandbox for running agents.

  • All participants will receive GMI credits to use on their projects 🚀

💳 Credits:

GMI Cloud

• $20 voucher for all participants

Stripe

• $250 in credits to offset fees for Stripe payments, connect, and billing.

• $250 off Stripe Atlas startup incorporation

👨🏻‍⚖️ Judges:

• Sina Matian — Product Engineer @ Y Combinator

• Jacky Lu — FDE @ GMI Cloud

• Andres Viera — SWE @ Circleback (YC W24)

• Felipe Pontiggia — SWE @ Circleback (YC W24)

• TBD

🗓️ Agenda:

• 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM: Check-ins | Team Formation

• 6:00 PM - 6:30PM: Introductions

  • Garry Tan — President & CEO, Y Combinator

  • TBD

• 6:30 PM - 10:30PM: Hacking

• 10:30 PM - 11:30PM: Judging | Optional Demos

• 11:30 PM - 12:00 AM: Awards and Closing

🙌 Who should apply?

• Engineers, designers, and researchers building with AI, in Taipei or visiting.

• University and graduate students.

• Aspiring founders and early-stage teams (pre-seed or seed) preparing for the US market.

You do not need a startup or a finished idea. You need to be able to ship in a day and present in English.

🤝 Team Format and Selection:

• Teams of up to 4, or solo.

• About 200 participants will be selected from applications. Selection considers past experience and projects shipped.

💻 Rules and Submission:

• Build session: Existing models, APIs, and libraries are allowed; the product itself must be built during the event.

• Submission: a 90-second demo video & Github URL. Plus an optional live demo to peers during the judging session.