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 458 grants
Open Innovation Challenge for Talent – SIGNs Sprint
EIT RawMaterials · European Union
Pays student and graduate teams cash prizes for pitching green-metals ideas in Amsterdam.
Open Pitch
OOF · United States
Pays one early-stage startup $125,000 for winning a live pitch at Invest Fest.
OrbitalAI Φsat-2
ESA · Global / Multinational
Rewards teams for AI tools that process Earth-observation data onboard satellites.
Outstanding Female Scientist Prize
🇪🇺EDCTP3 · European Union
Awards EUR 20,000 to a woman scientist recognised for global-health research and mentorship in sub-Saharan Africa.
Outstanding Research Team Prize
🇪🇺EDCTP3 · European Union
Awards EUR 50,000 to a research team recognised for South-North global-health partnerships on poverty-related diseases.
Pet Care Innovation Prize
🇺🇸Purina · United States
Awards up to $50,000 in cash and a Purina bootcamp to early-stage pet-care startups' Grand Prize winner.
Pitch & Pour: Start-Up Pitch Competition
🇺🇸Medmarc & MTEC · United States
Awards $7,500 cash to the winning military-health start-up pitching at The MedTech Conference.
PitchMI
🇺🇸MSURF · United States
Awards Michigan startups $250,000 per track winner, plus $1 million at the championship.
Power At Sea Prize
🇺🇸DOE WPTO · United States
Pays teams up to $1.5 million combined to build early-stage marine energy systems that supply reliable power at sea.
Premio For Women in Science (FWiS)
ANID · Chile
Funds recognition and opportunities for women scientists in Chile to strengthen real-world implementation.
Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge
🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom
Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.
Queens Tech & Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸QEDC · United States
Awards up to $20,000 each to five early-stage entrepreneurs with strong Queens ties.
RADx Tech ACT ENDO Challenge
🇺🇸NICHD · United States
Paid $3 million in prizes for non-invasive technologies that speed up endometriosis diagnosis.
RAISE the STAKES
RAISE Summit · France
Awards AI startups up to $350K in cloud credits for pitching live at its Paris summit.
Real-time detection of Structural Modifications in Scaffolding for Oil Refinery Safety
YPF · Argentina
Pays $20,000 to pilot a real-time sensor system that detects unsafe scaffolding changes at a refinery.
RELX Environmental Challenge
RELX · United Kingdom
Awards two $75,000 lump-sum prizes for water/sanitation or ocean environmental innovation.
Rice Business Plan Competition
Rice Jones School · United States
Funds student-led startup teams competing for investment, non-dilutive cash, and in-kind prizes at Rice University.
Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Offers up to $500,000 across three phases for payloads a robotic arm can manipulate in orbit.
Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge
NTL · United States
Pays up to $155,000 across three phases for a new lunar rover wheel design.
Santander X Portugal Award - Startup
🇵🇹Santander X · Portugal
Splits a €20,000 prize among three Portuguese startups, plus a spot in the global final.
Santander X UK Awards
🇬🇧Santander · Spain
Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.
Scientific Leadership Prize (Man, EU)
🇪🇺EDCTP3 · European Union
Awards EUR 15,000 to a male mid-career scientist based in the EU or an associated country for global-health leadership.
Scientific Leadership Prize (Man, SSA)
EDCTP3 · European Union
Awards EUR 15,000 to a male mid-career scientist based in sub-Saharan Africa for global-health leadership.
Scientific Leadership Prize (Woman, EU)
🇪🇺EDCTP3 · European Union
Awards EUR 15,000 to a woman mid-career scientist based in the EU or an associated country for global-health leadership.