Prize competitions

Offers DPIIT-recognised Indian FinTech startups a Rs 5 lakh prize pool, equity-free.

Awards up to $30,000 for hand-hygiene solutions built for low-resource healthcare settings.

Gives one Japan-based deep-tech founder a free $30,000 product build from an engineering team.

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Funds teams advancing cost-effective industrial energy storage concepts through a proof-of-concept prototype stage of a DOE prize challenge.

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Funds teams demonstrating prototype industrial energy storage systems through a DOE prize challenge for validated scalability.

Pays Canadian youth aged 14 to 18 cash awards for innovation projects that address community, national or global challenges.

Awards $50,000 to the top early-stage AgTech startup pitching at the Borlaug Dialogue.

Awards €15,000 in prize money plus up to €75,000 in support to sustainable-innovation startups.

Awards a 25,000 EUR prize pool to global start-ups tackling that year's chosen theme.

Awards €15,000 to the best sustainable-chemistry startup fixing a problem in the textile industry.

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.

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.

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Awards 35,000 EUR total to young German start-ups founded since 2021.

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Funds Abu Dhabi startups with AED 1M+ in equity-free prizes and in-kind support through a sector-focused entrepreneurship competition.

Awards up to $1 million to scalable solutions that increase living kidney donation.

Invests up to $150,000 in winning Georgia Tech student teams' startups.

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.

Splits a non-dilutive CHF 100,000 between two later-stage agri- and industrial-tech startups.

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Pays new competitors $200,000 each to build lithium-ion battery recycling solutions.

Pays Indian startups up to Rs. 1 lakh to solve cement logistics challenges.

Funds AI-driven ALS drug-discovery teams through four stages worth up to £7.5 million total.

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Provides prize recognizing a specific significant recent lupus research discovery through the Lupus Insight Prize.

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Pays a $250,000 prize pool for stories and insights from people living with Lyme disease.

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Pays up to $50,000 per prize from a $250,000 pool for Lyme disease education resources.