Companies · Mexico City, Mexico
Mobil3 is based in Mexico City. We design and run hackathons, innovation challenges, university programs and developer adoption programs for protocols, fintechs, AI companies and corporates that need to reach the developers, students and founders building here, and we report what came out.
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People in our programs get credits, tools and support from this network.
Mexico City concentrates the country's fintechs, corporate headquarters, investors and the largest universities. It is where Mobil3 ran its 2025 hackathon with the Monad Foundation and where Hacktoberfest México takes place during Mexico Tech Week. For a company entering Mexico, it is usually the first city, and we already have the rooms and relationships in place.
· Publi.co Reforma, Av. Paseo de la Reforma 333, Cuauhtémoc · Five-day hackathon
Five days of building with the Monad Foundation, with mentors and judges from the industry and developers from Mexico and Latin America.
644 check-ins · 12 countries · $75K USD in prizes
· Two days during Mexico Tech Week
Building with open source AI and open-weight models, with mentors and partner tools for every team, together with Major League Hacking.
A case in Mexico City
Firecrawl, ElevenLabs, Lovable, n8n and MojoAuth each set a challenge built on their product, and Google set the Gemma 4 challenge through MLH. Their tools were open to every team from day one, not only to the teams that picked their challenge.
Two days inside Mexico Tech Week: on October 27 the teams formed and the partners presented their challenges; on the 28th came Build Day and Demo Day. A jury of three, Abimael Martell of Firecrawl among them, scored five criteria, including the meaningful use of the technology and of open source.
Among the winners of the partners' challenges: Barasu, a grocery list that compares prices across stores (Firecrawl); Budi, an open source Chrome extension that turns what you save into audio lessons (ElevenLabs); Futuro, which guides students to find their vocation (Lovable); and KYP, which checks suppliers against Mexico's SAT 69-B list (n8n). At the close, each partner got how many teams used its tool, who won and what they built.
Single-day or multi-day challenges built on a real problem from your team, with recruitment, mentorship, judging, demo day and follow-up.
Campus activations, workshops and institutional programs that put your product and your problems in front of students and faculty.
Workshops, credits, starter kits, office hours and project showcases that get developers using your product, with adoption measured at the end.
Roundtables, founder and operator dinners, meetups and brand activations for companies entering the local market.
Audience, outcome and the constraint that cannot move. Usually two weeks.
Format, participants, KPIs and deliverables, agreed before anything is booked.
Recruitment, operations, mentors and judges, with our team on the ground.
Who took part, what got built and what came out, against the agreed KPIs.
Discovery usually takes two weeks and design is agreed before anything is booked. A single-day challenge can run within weeks; a multi-day program with universities and partners needs more runway. Our guide to corporate hackathons in Mexico covers the timeline and what drives the budget, and the proposal gives you realistic dates.
Yes. Mobil3 works with universities, public innovation offices and builder communities in Mexico City, including the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and the city's economic development ministry. Recruitment is part of every program, so the right students and developers are in the room for your challenge.
Protocols, fintechs, AI and developer tool companies, corporates and investors that want real presence in Mexico. They use Mobil3 for developer adoption, innovation challenges built on a business problem, campus activations and roundtables that open relationships with the local market.
Yes. Mexico City is our base: we run the Mobil3 Hackathon, with participants from 12 countries in its 2025 edition, in-person build sessions for developers and open coworks for builders, along with programs for companies, universities and government.
It depends on the format. The latest hackathon was Hacktoberfest México 2026, on October 27 and 28, 2026, at Dev Townhouse in Colonia Juárez and Sandbox Hub by Igeneris in Polanco; the Mobil3 Hackathon 2025 was at Publi.co Reforma. Build sessions and coworks run in city venues confirmed at registration, and programs with companies or government run where the audience is, including university campuses.
Send a written request through the contact page with your goal, the audience you need to reach, the city and your timing. Mobil3 replies by email within two business days. If there is a fit, you get a short proposal with scope, format, KPIs and next steps.
Tell us what you want to achieve and we reply within two business days.
We are building partnerships with local governments, universities, communities and companies beyond Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey. Tell us what you would like to build together.
