Prize competitions
Explore prize competitions and innovation challenges. This directory lists cash prizes, challenge programs and awards for solving a defined problem, from government agencies, foundations, corporates and challenge platforms, with the deadline, prize purse and entry rules on every listing.
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Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud
Aliyun · China
Pays a combined $70,000+ prize pool, with no equity taken, to individual developers, teams and startups worldwide who build AI applications using Qwen Cloud's models in an online hackathon.
Global Challenge Lab
🇬🇧Imperial Enterprise · United Kingdom
Offers a virtual innovation sprint supporting teams building practical solutions through structured mentoring and milestone-driven challenges.
Global Deep Tech Battle @ SLUSH 2026
swisstech · Switzerland
Awards a 3,000-euro cash prize to the winning deep-tech pitch at SLUSH 2026.
Global Early-Stage InsurTech Startup Competition
🇺🇸InsurTech NY · United States
Awards a $200,000 prize pool to early-stage InsurTech startups pitching in New York.
Global Innovation Challenge 2026
Social Shifters · United Kingdom
Awards up to $15,000 to youth-led startups tackling a social or environmental problem.
Green Energy & Climate Action Challenge under Bharat Startup Grand Challenge
🇮🇳DPIIT · India
Pays up to INR 5 lakh to Indian climate-tech and green-energy startups.
Greenovation Green Steel Challenge
🇮🇳EarthON · United States
Awards up to ₹25 lakh in cash for green-steel decarbonisation pilots in India.
Groundbreaking Hydro Prize
WPTO · United States
Awards $300,000 in cash prizes for ideas that cut small hydropower foundation costs.
Grow-NY Food & Agriculture Startup Competition
ESD · United States
Awards up to $1 million to food and ag startups that build their business in New York.
HackNexus'26
🇮🇳Droidecks · India
Pays a ₹70,000 total cash prize, split among winning student teams, in a three-round national online hackathon for Indian college students.
Halt the Hitchhiker: Invasive Species Challenge
🇺🇸Reclamation · United States
Pays inventors and startups cash prizes through a three-phase competition for solutions that stop invasive mussels from spreading through recreational watercraft ballast tanks, with the top Phase 3 prize reaching up to $125,000.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 12th
🇫🇷Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Offers deep-tech startup challengers equity-free seed support, mentorship, and investor exposure across sectors and global markets.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)
Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.
High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Prize
🇺🇸Office of Electricity · United States
Awards $200,000 in cash for new technology that strengthens the U.S. power grid.
Hill Prizes
🇺🇸LH Philanthropies · United States
Awards Texas researchers and innovators $500,000 in non-dilutive funding for their work.
How Tokenization, AI, and Quantum May Reshape Institutional Financial Markets
Wazoku · United Kingdom
Awards up to $500 for sharp expert insight on tokenization, AI and quantum in finance.
HST Grand Challenge
🇮🇳IIT Mandi Catalyst · India
Awards up to INR 2 lakh per theme to startups pitching at the HST Grand Challenge.
IC Taiwan Grand Challenge
NSTC Taiwan · Taiwan
Awards a $30,000 cash prize to startups collaborating with Taiwan's chip industry.
iCreate Drone Challenge 2025
🇮🇳iCreate · India
Pays for India's fastest, strongest and most enduring drone prototypes with ₹2 crore.
IIITD-IC FinTech Grand Challenge
🇮🇳IIITD-IC · India
Offers DPIIT-recognised Indian FinTech startups a Rs 5 lakh prize pool, equity-free.
Improving Health Provider Hand Hygiene Challenge
🇺🇸IRC · United States
Awards up to $30,000 for hand-hygiene solutions built for low-resource healthcare settings.
India-Japan DeepTech and AI Venture Challenge 2026
🇯🇵WEBMOB · India
Gives one Japan-based deep-tech founder a free $30,000 product build from an engineering team.
Industrial Energy Storage Systems Prize — Phase 2
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Funds teams advancing cost-effective industrial energy storage concepts through a proof-of-concept prototype stage of a DOE prize challenge.
Industrial Energy Storage Systems Prize — Phase 3: Validate
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Funds teams demonstrating prototype industrial energy storage systems through a DOE prize challenge for validated scalability.