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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.

Showing 361-384 of 460 grants

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Macquarie Community Resilience Prize

🇧🇷Macquarie · Australia

Awards up to $250,000 to teams building climate-resilient jobs and infrastructure.

Climate TechEnergy Tech
$50K – $250K
DB
Closed

Make It in Brooklyn Climate Tech Pitch Contest

🇺🇸DBP · United States

Pays NYC climate startups up to $10,000 in cash and commercialization support.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+1
$10K
US Department of Energy logo
Closed

MAKE IT Prize Facilities Track

🇺🇸DOE · United States

Awards U.S. manufacturers up to $4.5 million to build shovel-ready clean energy factories.

Energy TechClimate Tech+1
$500K – $4.5M
DO
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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.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing
$50K – $250K
SN
Closed

Manolo Sanchez Prize

🇺🇸Sánchez · United States

Awards $25,000 to a venture that expands financial access for underserved communities.

$25K
MassChallenge logo
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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.

AICybersecurity
MassChallenge logo
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MassChallenge Healthcare Challenge Program

🇺🇸MassChallenge · United States

Supports healthcare and life science startups to strengthen partnerships and scaling through a MassChallenge industry track.

MedtechBiotech
MassChallenge UK logo
Closed

MassChallenge UK Accelerator

🇬🇧MassChallenge UK · United Kingdom

Provides MassChallenge United Kingdom Accelerator participants with growth coaching, customer discovery, and investor preparation.

AICybersecurity+5
£20K
ME
Closed

MEDICA Start-up Competition

MEDICA · Germany

Awards cash prizes and global exposure to digital-health startups pitching at Germany's MEDICA trade fair.

Medtech
€4K
MT
Closed

MedTech Innovator

🇺🇸MTI · United States

Offers early-stage medtech startups up to $500,000 through its yearly accelerator.

Medtech
$500K
AM
Closed

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.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing+1
$300K
VU
Closed

Most Innovative Startup Award

🇿🇦VUKA · South Africa

Splits a R30,000 prize pool among standout early-stage startups pitching at Converge Africa.

National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences logo
Closed

NCATS Translational Science Education and Training Challenge

🇺🇸NCATS · United States

Awards five $10,000 prizes for standout translational-science education and training programs.

MedtechBiotech
$10K
VI
Closed

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.

€5K
NIH National Eye Institute logo
Closed

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.

MedtechAI
$500K
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences logo
Closed

NIH Quantum Computing Challenge

🇺🇸NCATS · United States

Awards up to $1.3 million across stages for new quantum algorithms solving biomedical problems.

MedtechBiotech+1
$300K
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences logo
Closed

NIH Quantum Sensing Technology Challenge

🇺🇸NCATS · United States

Awards up to $1.6 million across stages for quantum-enabled biomedical sensing devices.

MedtechBiotech+1
$400K
NIST PSCR Division logo
Closed

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.

AICybersecurity+3
$1M
NIST PSCR Division logo
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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.

AICybersecurity+4
$760K
NIST PSCR Division logo
Closed

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.

AICybersecurity+2
$2.2M
US
Closed

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.

Climate TechAdvanced Manufacturing
$3K
NX
Closed

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.

Semiconductors
OS
Closed

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.

AIFood Tech+4
CAD 8K
HE
Closed

Open Idea Competition

🇩🇪hessian.AI · Germany

Pays unincorporated AI founders up to €2,500 for their startup idea pitch.

AI
€1K – €3K

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