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Sponsored Events
Companies can sponsor Nepher tournaments, hackathons, and benchmarks for brand visibility, recruitment, and credibility with the robotics community. Sponsors back an event — the Nepher team creates and operates it.
Sponsored Tournaments
Sponsored tournaments are listed at nepher.ai/tournament/sponsored: competitions backed by enterprise sponsors — brand visibility, recruitment tracks, and Nepher Verified relevance where enabled.
A sponsor profile can include:
| Field | Shown publicly |
|---|---|
| Sponsor name and logo | Yes — on the tournament page, task repo, leaderboard, and winner announcement |
| Description | Yes |
| Careers URL | Yes |
| Recruitment track | Yes, when enabled — a hiring path for top performers |
| Nepher Verified relevance | Yes, when the event relates to a Verified credential |
Commercial details (invoices, NDAs) stay private between the sponsor and Nepher.
Sponsored Hackathons
Hackathon sponsors provide a logo, a company challenge statement, and, where enabled, a recruitment track. Sponsored hackathons are featured on nepher.ai/hackathon. See Hackathons.
Sponsored Benchmarks
A benchmark sponsorship creates a co-branded evaluation benchmark on EnvHub, used for tournaments and policy validation.
Integrity Rules
- Sponsors never create or administer events directly.
- Sponsorship does not grant access to hidden tests, seeds, or control over scoring.
- Tournament results are settled by decentralized validators exactly as in unsponsored events (see Incentive Mechanism).
How to Sponsor
Use nepher.ai/enterprise/contact and choose Sponsor a custom tournament, Sponsor a custom hackathon, or Sponsor a benchmark. See the Enterprise Overview for the full engagement flow.