Prize competitions

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Pays up to $50,000 each to 20 teams building human-based alternatives to animal testing.

Pays teams up to $7 million in total cash prizes to build human-based lab methods that can complement or replace animal testing in biomedical research.

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Awards up to $7,000,000 in cash prizes to teams building lab-based alternatives to animal testing.

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Pays U.S. non-academic nonprofits up to $300,000 to build research capacity and run their own maternal health research project.

Awards equity-free cash prizes and strategic investment access to ConTech startups pitching to a consortium of ten construction-industry corporate venture arms.

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Funds counter-UAS prototype developers competing for IDEaS Sandbox monetary prizes.

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Administers Hangzhou's Creating the World competition for overseas returnees and foreign nationals launching technology ventures.

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Supports climate leadership travel and networking opportunities for entrepreneurs across regions.

Pays teams up to $35 million in cash for delivering commercial-scale carbon removal credits.

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Pays U.S.-based teams up to $52.5 million in cash awards to design, build and operate first-of-a-kind direct air capture pilot plants.

Pays incubator organizations up to $750,000 to build support programs for DAC entrepreneurs.

Pays up to INR 3 lakh for rural water-testing and sanitation innovations.

Awards ₹1.25 lakh across 5 winning deep-tech ideas plus mentoring and incubation support.

Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.

Pays at least $7,500 to startups making food processing more sustainable and efficient.

Pays $75,000 per team to interdisciplinary developers solving U.S. utilities' data problems.

Pays interdisciplinary software and data teams up to $150,000 each to help U.S. electric utilities modernize their data systems and grid analytics.

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Funds teams designing cost-effective industrial energy storage concepts through a DOE prize competition for thermal and electric storage at industrial scale.

Pays up to INR 50 lakh for tested air-pollution-reduction technology in Delhi.

Pays a €10,000 cash prize to an early-career biologist with a bold research vision.

Pays a guaranteed $15,000 first prize for an integrated autonomous drone-docking system.

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Shares a $500,000 prize pool among university-founded startups building dual-use defense tech.

Pays U.S. entrepreneurs up to $800,000 per team, across three phases, to build cheaper ways of recovering critical materials from electronic scrap.