Candidly provides a cloud‑hosted platform that lets robotics competition organizers define challenges, manage participant registrations, and run automated, sandboxed evaluation of code submissions. The system generates real‑time leaderboards, ingests telemetry via REST APIs, and offers role‑based access, secure data export, and integration hooks for reporting.
Funding
$20.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Organizers of robotics competitions must coordinate challenge definitions, participant registrations, submission handling, and real-time scoring across multiple venues, often relying on ad‑hoc spreadsheets and manual processes that are error‑prone and hard to scale.
Solution
Candidly delivers a cloud‑hosted competition management platform that centralizes all logistical workflows for robotics events. Organizers can define challenges, set scoring criteria, and publish rules through a web interface, while participants submit code or configuration files directly via a dedicated competition screen. The system automatically validates submissions, runs sandboxed evaluation jobs, and updates live leaderboards in real time. Integrated APIs allow teams to stream telemetry data from robots for on‑the‑fly scoring and post‑event analytics. All data are stored securely and can be exported for reporting or integration with learning management systems.
Target Audience
Primary users are robotics competition organizers—universities, STEM clubs, and hackathon sponsors—and participating teams of students or hobbyists who need a reliable, end‑to‑end event management solution.
Features
- Web‑based challenge authoring tool with parameterized scoring rules and version control
- Secure submission portal supporting binary uploads, containerized execution, and automated validation pipelines
- Real‑time leaderboard and event dashboard with customizable visualizations and drill‑down metrics
- RESTful API for ingesting robot telemetry, enabling dynamic scoring based on live performance data
- Role‑based access control and SSO integration for organizers, judges, and participants
- Automated result export in CSV/JSON formats and optional webhook notifications to external systems
- Scalable cloud infrastructure with isolated execution environments to ensure fair and reproducible judging