Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a global technology investor that specializes in enterprise software, today announced the winners of its 8^th Annual North American and Global Hackathons. Vista’s two independent business innovation competitions provide an opportunity for developers and engineers across the Vista portfolio to connect with peers and compete to advance enterprise software solutions.

This year’s competitions were anchored around the use of agentic AI, or AI systems designed to independently carry out tasks by observing its environment, interpreting context and taking action with minimal human interactions. Each competition was judged by a panel of Vista value creation and product and technology experts during separate, 24-hour competitions held in Washington, DC and Bangalore, India. Submissions were judged based on innovation and originality, feasibility of productization and deployment, potential business impact, completeness of vision and clarity of presentation.

“This year’s Hackathons showcased how agentic AI is rapidly evolving from emerging technology to a transformative force for the enterprise,” said Robert F. Smith, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. “By bringing together the collective expertise of Vista’s portfolio companies and the promise of the next generation of engineers, we are enabling and evangelizing the enormous promise of agentic AI across our portfolio while widening the aperture of opportunity for new talent to work with this new general-purpose technology. That’s the power of the Vista ecosystem at work: accelerating innovation, expanding access and driving impact at scale.”

Combined, the Hackathons featured over 300 competitors across 68 teams representing nearly half of Vista’s portfolio companies. For the second consecutive year, the North American event was hosted by the University of the District of Columbia and included student competitors from 20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (“HBCUs”) who worked alongside each of the portfolio teams. Bishop Fox served as the exclusive sponsor of the North America event.

Vista is proud to congratulate the winners of this year’s competitions in the following categories:

North America Hackathon Winners

• Best Agent – Duck Creek Technologies – Felix, the First Notice of Loss (FNOL) agent, streamlines claim intake and proactively tackles the $80B+ insurance fraud problem. It analyzes audio, images and text, to perform data entry, detect fraud and assign claims. Felix lowers operational costs, improves accuracy and boosts customer retention.
• Peer Choice Award – KnowBe4 – French Factor AI combats spear phishing by deploying specialized agents that mine public data, create realistic digital identities and execute social engineering tactics to expose vulnerabilities. The platform educates users about digital footprint risks, reduces phishing susceptibility and strengthens overall cybersecurity posture.
• Highest Business Impact – Vena – Vena Copilot's Planning Agent automates financial planning and analysis (FP&A) by generating optimal budget scenarios, detecting key correlations and updating assumptions in real-time. The secure, bias-mitigated solution cuts budgeting cycles by over 60%, driving smarter, faster decisions and creating significant potential savings.
• Best UI Orchestration – LogicMonitor – Edwin AI agent transforms the UI into a true orchestration layer, unifying every system into a single view and automating workflows end-to-end. By collapsing tool sprawl, triaging alerts and surfacing next best actions directly in the interface, LogicMonitor reduces support costs, accelerates adoption and delivers seamless automation at scale.
• Best Multi-Agent / Human-Agent Interaction (TIE)
  • Smartsheet – PM agent deploys multiple AI agents to build out project plans, detect project risks, identify resourcing conflicts and generate real-time dashboards, all grounded in Smartsheet's Knowledge Graph, enabling data-driven project management and operational efficiency.
  • Allvue – Agentic AI assistant orchestrates investment, allocation and validation agents to automate fund accounting, improve NAV accuracy, streamline investor reporting and enhance transparency.
• Spirit Award – Ellucian – Recognized for cross-company collaboration and student mentorship, Ellucian’s Career Agent provides tailored career recommendations and resume optimization for students using responsible, explainable AI to improve employment readiness.
• Honorable Mentions
  • Benchmark Gensuite – Genny AI Configuration agent lets users easily customize and scale AI agents without custom builds. It adapts to changing requirements, streamlines enterprise-wide updates and embeds responsible AI to boost agility, reduce costs and maintain trust.
  • Jamf – Hall Pass automates secure privilege elevation on macOS devices using layered AI agents to evaluate requests, monitor elevated activity, and enforce policy compliance — reducing IT overhead and strengthening endpoint security.

Global Hackathon Winners

• Best Agent – Innovapptive – Autonomous AI agents help address challenges in industrial spare parts management by cleansing material data, identifying substitutes across warehouses and automating vendor RFQs. The solution significantly reduces costly downtime, eliminates manual guesswork and shifts warehouse managers from firefighting to strategic optimization.
• Peer Choice Award – Eagleview – GeoSentinel AI transforms flood risk assessment with high-resolution geospatial data and modular AI agents, delivering precise, property-level intelligence that enables accurate insurance pricing, targeted infrastructure investments and proactive disaster preparedness.
• Highest Business Impact – Jaggaer – JAI Workflow Builder automates contract lifecycle management from vendor onboarding to RFPs, reducing negotiation timelines. This intelligent contract system flags risks, ensures compliance and leverages historical data for critical contract negotiations decreasing cost and increasing efficiency of procurement operations.
• Best UI Orchestration – LogicMonitor – LM ResolveIQ predicts IT service disruptions and system failures before they strike, automatically triaging alerts, pinpointing root causes and applying fixes — helping enterprises cut downtime, reduce alert fatigue and let engineers focus on higher-value work.
• Best Multi-Agent / Human-Agent Interaction (TIE)
  • Finastra – CrediGenie uses multi-agent AI to analyze real-time financial behavior and spending patterns, enabling personalized credit structures and expanding access to specific banking services for thin-credit populations.
  • Poppulo – Multi-agent onboarding workflow automates analysis, targeting and communications to streamline customer onboarding, reducing timelines from weeks to days and improving retention.
• Spirit Award – Infoblox – Recognized for its practical enterprise application, Infoblox’s AI platform standardizes build-versus-buy technology evaluations, helping enterprises optimize costs and align technology investments with business strategy.
• Honorable Mentions
  • Granicus – Digital agent monitors citizen feedback across calls, web, visits and social media, increasing response times, operational efficiency and public trust.
  • StarRez – StarMatch deploys nine specialized agents to improve roommate matching, reducing room-change requests and strengthening residential communities.

About Vista Equity Partners

Vista is a global technology investor that specializes in enterprise software. Vista’s private market strategies seek to deliver differentiated returns through a proprietary and systematic approach to value creation developed and refined over the course of 25 years and 600+ transactions. Today, Vista manages a diversified portfolio of software companies that provide mission-critical solutions to millions of customers around the world. As of March 31, 2025, Vista had more than $100 billion in assets under management. Further information is available at vistaequitypartners.com. Follow Vista on LinkedIn, @Vista Equity Partners, and on X, @Vista_Equity.

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