Sponsorship
Partner with BioHacks.
BioHacks brings Health Sciences, Engineering, and Business students together for two days of building around one real, patient-centred case. Sponsoring puts your brand in front of the people who will shape medicine and biotech next, and backs work aimed squarely at improving patient lives. Tiers start at $500, Platinum is fully custom, and we'll gladly build a partnership around exactly what you want from the weekend.
Our 2025 International Research Case Competition, on reimagining ultrasound for maternal health in rural communities, drew 100+ submissions worldwide, with the top 8 published in URNCST.
Why sponsor
Reach motivated students
Connect directly with Health Sciences, Engineering, and Business students from McMaster and visiting universities, at every year of study and already building toward careers in medicine, biotech, and engineering.
Put your brand in front of them
Featured social posts, prominent logo placement, and event branding keep you in front of the next generation of clinicians, engineers, and biotech founders, on our channels through the lead-up and on-site all weekend.
Back patient-centred work
Every team spends the weekend on a real, patient-centred case. Your support goes straight toward work aimed at improving how people are diagnosed, treated, and cared for.
Sponsorship tiers
Four tiers, plus space to design custom partnerships.
Bronze
$500
- Limited resume bank access
- 1 on-site recruiter
- Standard social media promotion
- Logo on website + event materials
- Closing ceremony recognition
- Participant analytics access
Silver
$1,000
- Everything in Bronze, plus:
- Full resume bank access
- Up to 2 on-site recruiters
- Standard networking booth
- Email banner + standard logo placement
- Judging & speaker opportunities
Gold
$2,000
- Everything in Silver, plus:
- Up to 3 on-site recruiters
- Resume review sessions
- Large networking booth
- Featured social media + top logo & banner
- Host a workshop
Platinum
Inquire
- Everything in Gold, plus:
- Up to 4 on-site recruiters
- Custom challenge stream
- Keynote speaker slot
- Co-host level influence
- Custom add-ons upon inquiry
Compare every perk
The full breakdown, tier by tier.
| Perk | Bronze$500 | Silver$1,000 | Gold$2,000Popular | PlatinumInquire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recruiting | ||||
| Resume bank access | Limited | |||
| On-site recruiters | 1 | Up to 2 | Up to 3 | Up to 4 |
| Resume review sessions | – | – | ||
| Marketing | ||||
| Logo on website | Basic | Standard | Top | Top |
| Email banner placement | – | Bottom | Top | Top |
| Social media promotion | Standard | Standard | Featured | Featured |
| Closing ceremony recognition | ||||
| Branding on event materials | ||||
| Technology & product | ||||
| Custom challenge stream | – | – | – | Inquire |
| Workshop hosting | – | – | ||
| Event presence | ||||
| Networking booth | – | Standard | Large | Large |
| Judging opportunity | – | |||
| Speaker opportunity | – | Keynote | ||
| Special benefits | ||||
| Participant analytics access | ||||
| Co-host level influence | – | – | – | Inquire |
| Add-ons | Available upon inquiry | |||
Prefer the printable version? Download the full sponsorship package (PDF).
Beyond the tiers
The tiers above cover most partnerships. If you have something more specific in mind - a challenge stream 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.
Put your name on a track or prize
Lend your name to one of our competition tracks, like "The [Company] Detection & Diagnostics Track," or fund a prize awarded in your name to a winning team. It's the most direct way to tie your brand to the work students will remember.
Custom challenge stream
Platinum partners can hand teams a proprietary dataset or a beta API and frame a problem around it. Hackers, including science and health students picking up code for the first time, build solutions on top of it. You get focused QA, a feedback corpus, and real signal on how non-experts use your product.
Judges, mentors, and workshops
Send judges to evaluate the final pitches, mentors to coach teams through the weekend, or run a technical workshop or fireside chat. Tell us what you'd like to share and we'll build the slot around it. Add-ons are available on inquiry.
Ready to talk?
Let's build BioHacks together.
Reach out and we'll shape a partnership around your goals: a named track, a custom challenge, judges and mentors, or a speaking slot. We'll show you exactly where your support lands, or you can grab the full package to share with your team.