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 385-408 of 460 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.
Pitch & Pour: Start-Up Pitch Competition
🇺🇸Medmarc & MTEC · United States
Awards $7,500 cash to the top 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 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.
Seal Team Fix
Reclamation · United States
Pays up to $575,000 across three phases for a rapid seal that stops dam conduit failures.
Second Manchester Prize
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Awards up to £1 million to the best UK AI solution for clean energy and net zero.
SET Award 2026
dena · Germany
Awards early-stage climate tech and energy start-ups an equity-free cash prize, a fully-covered trip to Berlin, and investor exposure at the SET Tech Festival.
Slack Agent Builder Challenge
Salesforce · United States
Pays a combined ₹39.06 lakh prize pool, no equity taken, to developers and teams worldwide who build AI agents on Slack's platform using low-code or no-code tools.
Slush 100
🇫🇮Slush · Finland
Pays the Slush 100 winner €500,000, equity free, live on stage at Slush.
SmartAIthon 2026
🇮🇳IEEE KCE CIS · India
Pays a ₹10,000 cash prize pool, no equity taken, to beginner-friendly hackathon participants building AI, IoT or social-good projects.
SOFT Innovation Prize
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to €50,000 to fusion researchers or companies for market-ready innovations.