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Results

Final winners and finalists for Google DeepMind x Cactus Compute Global Hackathon

Winners

Final Round

1st Place

CactusRoute by Max Health

Team led by two technical founders (TUM/Johns Hopkins) specializing in FHIR health-tech, AI agent swarms, LangGraph, and OpenAPI/FastMCP infrastructure for deep-tech startups.

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Maximilian

Mike

2nd Place

cloudNein

cloudNein empowers CFOs with instant, private financial AI using on-device FunctionGemma and anonymized cloud reasoning to protect sensitive data.

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Ian

Christoph

Ridvan

3rd Place

WarriorsPersonalAssistant

Team consisting of a Cornell aerospace PhD, a Stanford researcher, and startup founding engineers skilled in edge AI, robotics, full-stack, and on-device voice agents.

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Marzieh

Arhant

Mehrdad

Sneha

Finalists

Preliminary Round

Finalist

FAT BOSS (REALLY FAT)

Team consisting of Stanford, UCSC, and SUNY CS alumni, including founding engineers and a security CEO, skilled in PyTorch, Python, Go, and cloud-native microservices.

Finalist

Mingle

Team consisting of a Stripe SWE and Apple Senior Applied Scientist with CS and Data Science degrees from UT Austin and Duke, specializing in RAG, PyTorch, and agentic systems.

Finalist

CactusRoute by Max Health

Team led by two technical founders (TUM/Johns Hopkins) specializing in FHIR health-tech, AI agent swarms, LangGraph, and OpenAPI/FastMCP infrastructure for deep-tech startups.

Finalist

TrailSense

Team led by a Nutanix Senior PM and ex-Intel/AMD engineer with 20 years of experience, specializing in full-stack Next.js, Python, and agentic AI integrations.

Finalist

cloudNein

cloudNein empowers CFOs with instant, private financial AI using on-device FunctionGemma and anonymized cloud reasoning to protect sensitive data.

Finalist

WarriorsPersonalAssistant

Team consisting of a Cornell aerospace PhD, a Stanford researcher, and startup founding engineers skilled in edge AI, robotics, full-stack, and on-device voice agents.

Finalist

Cactus Commander: Hybrid Voice Agent for Apple Notes

Team led by an Amazon Applied Scientist with an MS in Data Science from Michigan, specializing in NLP, ASR, and Python-based ML systems.

Prizes Offered

Prizes

Prize Name	Description
Grand Prize	$5,000 in GCP Credits
Runner-Up	$2,500 in GCP Credits
Third Place	$1,000 in GCP Credits