Pet Care Innovation Prize
Awards up to $50,000 in cash and a Purina bootcamp to early-stage pet-care startups' Grand Prize winner.
The Pet Care Innovation Prize is Nestlé Purina's competition for early-stage pet-industry companies building novel products or services that solve real problems for pet owners, awarding up to $50,000 in cash plus a Purina bootcamp to the Grand Prize winner. Applicants apply online before the window closes; five winners are selected to attend an intensive bootcamp with Nestlé Purina leadership and …
The Pet Care Innovation Prize is open to early-stage companies in the pet industry building novel products or services that solve real problems for pet owners. It's aimed at founders, innovators and changemakers across the pet-care space broadly, not any one sub-category like food or health.
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