Capital One Launchpad 2025 Hackathon

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2260 Registered Allowed team size: 1 - 4
2260 Registered Allowed team size: 1 - 4
Solution Phase
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starts on:
Jul 30, 2025, 05:30 AM UTC (UTC)
ends on:
Aug 18, 2025, 06:29 PM UTC (UTC)

Overview

About Capital One

Capital One was founded on the belief that no one should be locked out of the financial system. We’re dedicated to helping foster a world where everyone has an equal opportunity to prosper. At Capital One, we're making things better for our customers and associates through innovation and collaboration.

More than 25 years ago, Capital One revolutionized the credit card industry. Our founding as a company was based on using technology, data, and analytics to tailor products and services to customers’ needs. Throughout our history, we have taken a rigorous and thoughtful approach to technology development to help us unlock insights, make decisions, and drive innovation and value for customers. As part of this journey, we became the first U.S. bank to go all in on the cloud, enabling us to leverage data and technology more nimbly and effectively than ever before. Whether helping customers shop more safely online or providing new insights into their finances through our award-winning mobile app, we’re constantly finding ways to use technology to make things easier and better for our customers. That foundation is critical to our ability to leverage the next frontier of AI to drive innovation with impact at scale.

Banking is in our DNA, but we are so much more than a bank. With more than 100 million customers, we have an incredibly exciting opportunity to deliver everyday convenience and value through more real-time, personalized financial solutions and services for millions of people. Our culture and values play an important part in keeping every associate inspired to advance this work on our mission to Change Banking for Good.

About Capital One India

From our founding, Capital One India has used tech and data to transform the financial industry. Today, our breakthroughs are making banking better for millions of people. Guided by this innovative spirit, we’re going further than ever before with an even deeper expertise in tech, product design, advanced analytics, data science and Machine Learning and AI. We’re all in. And we’re all in on a talented associate community that’s making it all possible.

Life at Capital One is about more. It’s about your growth and development. We help associates grow technical and professional skills in advanced analytics, product management, development and deployment, data science and Machine Learning and AI. And, in a nurturing environment that values problem solving, creativity and innovative thinking.

Capital One Launchpad

Capital One Launchpad is our flagship innovation challenge in India - designed to engage, empower, and collaborate with the next generation of AI/ML innovators. More than just a hackathon, Launchpad is a platform where bold ideas meet real-world impact, powered by data and intelligence. 

In this inaugural challenge, the focus is on one of India’s most vital sectors: Agriculture. The competition will explore how AI-powered agentic prototypes and solutions could potentially empower farmers and other members of the agricultural sector to make more confident, timely, and informed agricultural decisions.

What do you stand to win?

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You also get an exclusive chance to attend cutting-edge tech talks, and a behind-the-scenes look into how latest science & technology advancements power one of the world’s most data-driven financial institutions

Whether you're a builder, thinker, or explorer of emerging tech - if you love shaping intelligence from data, solving hard problems, and building with purpose at scale - Capital One Launchpad is your stage. (Refer to the eligibility criteria)

Registrations are now open. Form your team, bring your sharpest ideas, and let’s reimagine grassroots intelligence - together.

Themes

The Challenge: Exploring and Building Agentic AI Solutions for a High-Impact Area of Society: Agriculture

Agriculture is a high-impact area of Indian society which is well-suited to continuous innovation and experimentation with data, analytics, and AI/ML. AI-driven solutions in this sector have potential to help farmers and others in this sector help answer questions like:

  • “When should I irrigate?”
  • “What seed variety suits this unpredictable weather?”
  • “Will next week’s temperature drop kill my yield?”
  • “Can I afford to wait for the market to improve?”
  • “Where can I get affordable credit, and will any state/central government policy help me with finances?”

In this challenge, the questions above may require a multi-modal agentic solution for real-time answering. And the hypothetical user constraints to consider are many, such as lack of internet access.

Your AI agent could potentially address a lot of local constraints if it could:

  • Understand local, natural-language queries
  • Synthesize insights across domains like weather, crop cycles, pest science, soil health, finance
  • Infer meaning, adapt to context, and explain its answers
  • Be usable by someone with low digital access but high decision responsibility

You will have to tackle:

  • Noisy, incomplete, non-standard public datasets
  • Multilingual, code-switched, colloquial questions
  • Hallucination risks in LLMs and grounding in facts
  • Design for reliability, explainability, and trust
  • Real-world edge cases, where the wrong answer has real costs

From retrieval to reasoning, interface to insight, you will need to bring your best thinking in AI/ML, software, product and design.

The task is to build a human-aligned AI-powered advisor which could be used for all sorts of agri-related queries. These could include input materials, crops, harvest, finance or policy related queries. The solution aims to be highly accessible to multiple demographic regions of India and could be aimed at a farmer, financier, vendor or any node in the agricultural industry.

Important Note: Participants can only use publicly available datasets.

We call for the participants to utilize a myriad of hyperlocal unstructured datasets available through public portals. All participants are individually responsible for complying with the terms and conditions of the datasets you use and abide by them, including citing and sourcing the datasets.

Wonder why we chose this problem statement?

The goal is to discover innovation that emerges as the participants solve these problems. Innovation across different sectors and industries can expand the possibilities of AI. Participants will address complex challenges and demonstrate how their talent can drive transformative change in diverse fields. We imagine that the challenges addressed through the solution would be domain-agnostic and apply universally.

Prizes INR 1200000 in prizes

Main Prizes
First Prize
INR 600000
Second Prize
INR 400000
Third Prize
INR 200000
starts on:
Jul 30, 2025, 05:30 AM UTC (UTC)
closes on:
Aug 18, 2025, 06:29 PM UTC (UTC)

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