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title: "Celebrating the Winners of the 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/celebrating-the-winners-of-the-2026-built-on-databricks-startup-challenge-bwnkpuqdb
source_url: https://www.databricks.com/blog/celebrating-winners-2026-built-databricks-startup-challenge
type: article
source: "databricks"
published: 2026-07-01T21:55:46.532Z
updated: 2026-07-01T21:56:08.520Z
tags: ["startup", "ai-agents", "databricks"]
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language: en
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# Celebrating the Winners of the 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge

**[databricks](https://daily.dev/sources/databricks)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Databricks has announced the winners of its 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge, a global competition for early-stage B2B startups building on the Databricks platform. The Grand Prize Winner is VisionHeight, an agentic threat intelligence platform that maps adversary infrastructure across the internet before attacks launch. The two other winners are Linkup, a production-grade web search API for AI applications, and Intelo, an agentic workforce platform for retail merchandising and planning. Databricks also announced a new startup program offering up to $200,000 in credits across Databricks and Neon for qualifying early-stage founders.

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Tags: [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#databricks](https://daily.dev/tags/databricks)

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