Partner with BioHacks.
Support McMaster's first bioengineering hackathon and connect with a community of driven, interdisciplinary students. Funding tiers start at $750, and we're happy to design custom partnerships around what you want to get out of the event.
Why sponsor
→Reach motivated students
Connect directly with students in engineering, science, and health across McMaster and visiting institutions - at every year of study.
Build your brand
Increase awareness among the next generation of bioengineering and biotech talent before they enter the workforce.
Test your tools at scale
Hand participants your dataset, beta API, or platform and watch hundreds of motivated builders put it through its paces over a weekend.
Sponsorship tiers
→Three tiers, plus space to design custom partnerships.
Tier 1
From $750
- Logo on the BioHacks website
- 1 representative at the networking event
- Logo placement at the bottom of the email banner
- Recognition at the closing ceremony
Tier 2
From $2,000
- Everything in Tier 1
- Up to 2 representatives at the networking event
- Logo placement in the middle of the email banner
- Custom project stream, co-designed with the sponsor
- Option to send judges
Tier 3
From $5,000
- Everything in Tier 2
- Up to 7 representatives + a promo booth at the networking event
- Featured logo at the top of the email banner
- Promotional workshop slot during the event
- Option to send a keynote speaker
- Access to the participant resume bank for recruiting
Beyond the tiers
→The tiers above cover most partnerships. If you have something more specific in mind - a challenge track on your dataset, a recruiter booth, a flagship workshop - these are the formats we already plan to support, and we're happy to design something around them.
Custom challenge tracks
Sponsors can provide a proprietary dataset or a beta API and frame a problem around it. Hackers - including life-sci and science students who may be picking up code for the first time - build solutions on top of it. You get focused QA, a feedback corpus, and a real signal on how non-experts interact with your product.
1:1 recruiter resume reviews
Send a couple of recruiters to run 1:1 resume critiques on the day of the event. Participants meet real industry recruiters; you build a top-of-funnel pipeline into the bioengineering and biotech roles you're hiring for. We'll market this hard - it drives serious sign-up traffic.
Speakers, judges, workshops
Beyond the tier defaults, Tier 2 and Tier 3 sponsors can co-design how they show up: technical workshops, fireside chats, judging panels, or breakout sessions. Tell us what you'd want and we'll build the slot in.
Ready to talk?
Let's build BioHacks together.
Reach out and we'll walk you through the tiers, custom partnership options, and where your support fits the event best.
Become a sponsor