300 teams — online and onsite combined — took part in the very first AXGO. Explore what it means to be a founding-year winner, the Demo Day top 3, and moments from the event below.
The complete winners roster — Grand Prize, Gold, Silver, and Bronze — is available as a downloadable PDF. Search for your name, or share the file with your school, sponsor, or family.
Download Winner List (PDF)AXGO started as a simple bet: that with the right tools, anyone — a student, a first-time builder, someone just curious about AI — can turn an idea into something real in a single day. On July 14, 2026, 300 teams took that bet with us, joining online and onsite from South Korea, Vietnam, Iran, the United States, Thailand, and Indonesia.
This is Year One. The numbers are small by design — we wanted to get the format right before we scale it. What isn't small is what every one of these teams proved: that they could take an idea, wrestle it into a working build, and put it in front of judges who didn't go easy on them.
If your name appears below, you're not just a winner of one event. You're part of the founding cohort of AXGO — the first people to do this, before it was a known thing to do. That's worth being proud of. And if your name doesn't appear this time, we hope to see you back for Season Two.
65% of all 300 teams — 195 in total, across online and onsite — are recognized across four award tiers. The full winners roster is available at the top of this page as a downloadable PDF.
Every project was scored independently by a panel of judges across the same 8 criteria — the same bar for every team, online or onsite.
Is the problem clear and real?
Is the target user clear?
Is the approach fresh and sound?
Is AI used aptly and well?
Is it actually built and working?
Is it easy and intuitive?
Is the impact and value big?
Is there room to grow further?
14 teams presented onsite on July 14, 2026. Here are the top 3 — try the winning build live, and watch how each team pitched it.
AXGO 2026 is Year One — here's what carrying an award (or a Demo Day placement) from this event actually stands for.
You're one of the first-ever AXGO award recipients — a title that only exists once. Every future edition builds on what this group started.
Scored across 8 criteria by judges who didn't know you and weren't grading on a curve. This result reflects the work, not the crowd.
A working build, judged and ranked against real peers — concrete evidence for a resume, a university application, or a pitch deck.
Founding-cohort recognition carries forward as AXGO grows — and it's the fastest path from "I built a demo" to "I have a real product."
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AXGO 2026 was Year One. AXGO 2027 will be bigger — and whether you medaled or not, we want you back. If you already have a working build, the next step is putting it in front of real customers.