Partner with SYE 28 to 30 August 2026

Sixty builders worth backing

One weekend in Stockholm, judged on real revenue rather than demos.

60 hand-picked builders

Flown in from across Europe.

2 000 in the crowd

The top 3 pitch live at Nordic Tech Week.

36 hours, one room

One room in Stockholm. Small on purpose.

Become a partner See the tiers
The event

Real customers by Sunday.

SYE Hackathon is a 36-hour build sprint run out of Stockholm by Sweden's youngest entrepreneurs, and open to builders from across Europe. Sixty hand-picked builders, with travel covered for anyone coming from outside Sweden, spend one weekend building products, finding real users and chasing real revenue. Projects are judged on traction, not demos. The top 3 teams pitch live in Kungsträdgården in front of around 2 000 people during Nordic Tech Week.

The weekend
FridayKickoff at 18:00, opening dinner at 19:00
SaturdayFull build day, breakfast to midnight
SundayDemo day, judging and winners
Nordic Tech WeekTop 3 pitch live in Kungsträdgården
Why this room
  • The room is picked, not ticketedEvery builder applies and 60 are selected. No tourists, only people who ship.
  • The jury is realJudges from Sting, SSES, Stora Enso, Swish, Prelint and Strawberry score revenue, users and traction.
  • The cohort posts while they buildThe Linkup marketing prize means the whole room documents the weekend publicly, mostly on LinkedIn.
Ways to partner

From one dinner to a title partnership.

01

Feed the builders

Cover a dinner, a breakfast or the snack table for 60 builders. Your name goes on the agenda and the whole room knows who kept them building.

02

Prizes and credits

Put your product in every builder's hands with credits, or back a named prize category the way ElevenLabs and Plue do.

03

Fund the weekend

Cash partners back the prize pools, cover travel for the builders flying in, and keep the weekend free for every participant. See the tiers below, or ask for the full prospectus.

04

Be in the room

Send someone to demo day, host a mentor hour or take a short moment on stage. The room is small on purpose, you will actually meet everyone.

Tiers

Pick your level.

Silver, $750

In the material

  • Logo on sweyoung.com and in every participant's event material
  • Your credits or product in the cohort's hands
  • Named in the recap video
Gold, $1,500

On the prize table

  • Everything in Silver
  • A named prize category with your brand on it
  • A mentor hour or a short moment on stage
  • A seat at demo day
Title, $2,500

Name the weekend

  • Everything in Gold
  • The weekend presented with your name on it
  • The opening or closing slot on stage
  • First look at the teams before the top 3 pitch live

Prefer kronor, in-kind or something in between, like one dinner? Everything here is flexible. Write to us and we will shape it together.

What you get

Reach that outlasts the weekend.

  • Your logo where the builders lookOn sweyoung.com and in the event material every participant gets.
  • Social proof across LinkedInEvery team competes for the Linkup marketing prize, so sixty builders post publicly all weekend and tag the partners who back them.
  • A recap video made to be sharedWe film the whole weekend and cut a short, fun recap you can post across all your own channels.
  • A named prize or categoryYour brand on the prize table, like best project built with ElevenLabs.
  • A direct line to the cohortSixty of the most determined young builders in Europe, plus a jury from Sting, SSES, Stora Enso, Swish, Prelint and Strawberry.
36h filmed, cut for social
The recap

The whole weekend, on film.

We film the whole weekend. The builds, the opening dinner, the 2 am energy, demo day. Then we cut it into a short recap made for social, and every partner gets the file to post across their own channels. Between that and sixty builders posting on LinkedIn as they go, your name travels well past the room.

Already in

Good company.

More coming soon

A bit on each of them, and why they are in.