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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MAKE IT Prize Round 2
🇺🇸DOE OTC · United States
Pays U.S. teams up to $4.5 million each to move critical energy technology manufacturing facilities from planning to shovel-ready.
MAKE IT Prize Strategies Track
🇺🇸DOE OTT · United States
Pays regional teams up to $250,000 to build a roadmap and secure manufacturer commitments for critical energy technology manufacturing in their community.
Manolo Sanchez Prize
🇺🇸Sánchez · United States
Awards $25,000 to a venture that expands financial access for underserved communities.
MassChallenge FinTech Challenge Program
🇺🇸MassChallenge · United States
Supports fintech startups with proven products through MassChallenge's program for modern financial services, payments, and regtech pilots.
MassChallenge Healthcare Challenge Program
🇺🇸MassChallenge · United States
Supports healthcare and life science startups to strengthen partnerships and scaling through a MassChallenge industry track.
MassChallenge UK Accelerator
🇬🇧MassChallenge UK · United Kingdom
Provides MassChallenge United Kingdom Accelerator participants with growth coaching, customer discovery, and investor preparation.
MEDICA Start-up Competition
MEDICA · Germany
Awards cash prizes and global exposure to digital-health startups pitching at Germany's MEDICA trade fair.
MedTech Innovator
🇺🇸MTI · United States
Offers early-stage medtech startups up to $500,000 through its yearly accelerator.
Microbattery Design Prize
🇺🇸AMMTO · United States
Pays teams up to $300,000 to design small-capacity batteries that beat today's microbatteries on performance, safety and recyclability.
Most Innovative Startup Award
🇿🇦VUKA · South Africa
Splits a R30,000 prize pool among standout early-stage startups pitching at Converge Africa.
NCATS Translational Science Education and Training Challenge
🇺🇸NCATS · United States
Awards five $10,000 prizes for standout translational-science education and training programs.
Next Startupper Award
VivaTech · France
Pays the winning student entrepreneur a €5,000 prize plus VIP passes and a Main Stage pitch slot at VivaTech in Paris.
NIH Data Sharing Index (S-index) Challenge
🇺🇸NEI · United States
Pays up to $500,000 from a $1 million pool for a new data-sharing measurement tool.
NIH Quantum Computing Challenge
🇺🇸NCATS · United States
Awards up to $1.3 million across stages for new quantum algorithms solving biomedical problems.
NIH Quantum Sensing Technology Challenge
🇺🇸NCATS · United States
Awards up to $1.6 million across stages for quantum-enabled biomedical sensing devices.
NIST PSCR CommanDING Tech Challenge
🇺🇸NIST PSCR Division · United States
Funds innovators and companies developing incident command dashboard technology for public safety through a NIST PSCR open innovation prize competition.
NIST PSCR First Responder UAS Challenge
🇺🇸NIST PSCR Division · United States
Funds teams and companies building unmanned aircraft system technology for first responders through NIST PSCR open innovation prize competitions.
NIST PSCR Tech to Protect Challenge
🇺🇸NIST PSCR Division · United States
Funds entrepreneurs, companies, and technologists building public safety communications technology through a NIST PSCR open innovation prize competition.
Novel Approaches for Sulfate Removal from Water Discharges
🇺🇸U.S. Steel · United States
Pays a $25,000 prize pool for scalable fixes to sulfate in a steel plant's wastewater.
Novel Technologies for Rapid Proof of Clean in Professional Environments
Diversey · United States
Pays $10,000 for a genuinely new way to verify cleanliness in under 30 minutes.
NXP Tech Startup Challenge (India)
🇮🇳NXP · Netherlands
Honors India's top deep-tech startups in an annual challenge, with XTC adding a special Applied Intelligence showcase.
NYS Commercialization Competition
🇺🇸FuzeHub · United States
Pays New York State startups a share of up to $420,000 to commercialize their technology.
Ocean Idea Challenge
🇨🇦OSP · Canada
Pays up to $8,000 to Canada-based individuals, teams and very early-stage companies who complete a milestone-based customer discovery sprint validating an ocean-sustainability idea.
Open Idea Competition
🇩🇪hessian.AI · Germany
Pays unincorporated AI founders up to €2,500 for their startup idea pitch.