Prize competitions

Pays up to $7,000 in cash, plus a fully paid trip to Seoul, to anyone with an idea that reduces or replaces animal testing.

Pays cash prizes for on-device AI models that run on everyday budget laptops in Africa.

Awards US agriculture startups up to $100,000 in a national pitch competition for rural innovation, backed by $145,000 in total prize funds.

Awards cash prizes, mentoring and scholarships to innovators using or conserving agrobiodiversity.

Funds AI teams building generative-AI tools for clinical-dataset enhancement or automotive crash-test case generation, paying up to €100,000 in prizes after an initial €28,500 concept-stage award.

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Funds teams worldwide developing AI agents for science and technology research through MSIT's annual AI Co-Scientist Challenge, with up to USD 1.9 million in follow-on startup support for winners.

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Supports AI teams tackling climate and nature problems, including biodiversity and grid efficiency, through Bezos-backed concept grants.

Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.

Awards $40K+ in prizes to grad students at Columbia, Cornell Tech, NYU or Yale pitching AI-driven startups.

Awards $40K+ in prizes to graduate-student teams building AI-driven startups.

Awards $175,000 in cash prizes to student teams building AI-accelerated ventures.

Awards up to €100,000 to teams building a GenAI mission generator for farm robots.

Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.

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Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.

Pays $50,000 for a scalable, low-cost synthesis route for a Phase II drug candidate.

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Awards a EUR 5,000 cash prize to the top EIT Digital alumni-founded startup.

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Paid new US for-profit companies cash and lab vouchers to move perovskite solar-cell research out of the lab and into commercial manufacturing.

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Funds U.S. innovators developing and demonstrating heliostat components through a DOE prize competition under the American-Made Challenges program.

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Funds U.S. companies and organizations piloting cattle agrivoltaics projects through a phased prize competition to generate cost and outcome data.

Pays up to $10,000 each to teams synthesizing renewable-integration research for DOE.

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Funds U.S. teams developing low-cost solar-thermal desalination systems through a multi-stage prize competition with a $1 million grand prize.

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Awarded up to $500,000 cash and lab vouchers to solar-manufacturing innovators.

Awards $75,000 in equity-free funding to startups that relocate to St. Louis.

Pays cash prizes for pragmatic ideas that improve access, delivery, engagement or retention of long-acting HIV care.