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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Ingenious+ Youth Innovation Challenge
🇨🇦Ingenious+ · Canada
Pays Canadian youth aged 14 to 18 cash awards for innovation projects that address community, national or global challenges.
Innovate for Impact Challenge
World Food Prize · United States
Awards $50,000 to the top early-stage AgTech startup pitching at the Borlaug Dialogue.
Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP)
WPTO · United States
Pays teams up to $200,000 to develop new materials that convert ocean wave motion into electricity.
Innovation Award 2026
Vogt & Paap · Switzerland
Awards €15,000 in prize money plus up to €75,000 in support to sustainable-innovation startups.
Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab
Arduino · Global / Multinational
Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.
ISC3 Innovation Challenge
ISC3 · Germany
Awards a 25,000 EUR prize pool to global start-ups tackling that year's chosen theme.
ISC3 Innovation Challenge 2024 (Sustainable Chemistry for Textiles)
ISC3 · Germany
Awards €15,000 to the best sustainable-chemistry startup fixing a problem in the textile industry.
IT Arena Startup Competition 2026
🇺🇦IT Arena · Ukraine
Awards a $60,000 prize fund and connects finalist founders to $12.5M in potential investment at Ukraine's largest startup competition, held during IT Arena in Lviv.
Kaya AI IIT India Hackathon 2026
🇮🇳Kaya · India
Pays a ₹3,50,000 cash prize pool, no equity taken, to Indian students, developers and tech enthusiasts who build AI, IoT or enterprise solutions in a virtual hackathon.
KfW Founders Award 2026
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Awards 35,000 EUR total to young German start-ups founded since 2021.
Khalifa Fund Entrepreneurship Competition — 2nd
🇦🇪KFED · United Arab Emirates
Funds Abu Dhabi startups with AED 1M+ in equity-free prizes and in-kind support through a sector-focused entrepreneurship competition.
KidneyX Empower: Living Link Prize Challenge
🇺🇸KidneyX · United States
Awards up to $1 million to scalable solutions that increase living kidney donation.
Klaus Startup Challenge
🇺🇸Georgia Tech · United States
Invests up to $150,000 in winning Georgia Tech student teams' startups.
Large Animal and Solar System Operations (LASSO) Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Pays multi-stakeholder U.S. teams a share of over $10 million to build and study cattle agrivoltaics pilot sites that combine solar power with cattle grazing.
LDC Climate Resilience Prize 2025
LDC · Netherlands
Pays a non-dilutive CHF 100,000 to the startup with the biggest climate impact on food and ag.
LDC Impact Prize 2026
LDC · Netherlands
Splits a non-dilutive CHF 100,000 between two later-stage agri- and industrial-tech startups.
Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize Breakthrough Contest — Track 1: New Competitors
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays new competitors $200,000 each to build lithium-ion battery recycling solutions.
Logistics Innovation Challenge
🇮🇳Shree Cement · India
Pays Indian startups up to Rs. 1 lakh to solve cement logistics challenges.
Longitude Prize on ALS
🇬🇧Challenge Works · United Kingdom
Funds AI-driven ALS drug-discovery teams through four stages worth up to £7.5 million total.
LymeX Healthathon
🇺🇸HHS · United States
Pays a $250,000 prize pool for stories and insights from people living with Lyme disease.
LymeX Visible Voices Prize
🇺🇸HHS · United States
Pays up to $50,000 per prize from a $250,000 pool for Lyme disease education resources.
Macquarie Community Resilience Prize
🇧🇷Macquarie · Australia
Awards up to $250,000 to teams building climate-resilient jobs and infrastructure.
Make It in Brooklyn Climate Tech Pitch Contest
🇺🇸DBP · United States
Pays NYC climate startups up to $10,000 in cash and commercialization support.
MAKE IT Prize Facilities Track
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Awards U.S. manufacturers up to $4.5 million to build shovel-ready clean energy factories.