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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Wilkes Climate Innovation Prize
Wilkes Center · United States
Awards $250,000 in non-dilutive funding to a bold, high-potential climate solution.
Women Startup Challenge: Tech Startup Grant
Women Who Tech · United States
Awarded $20,000 in equity-free grants to women-led tech startups after a live investor pitch.
World Agri-Foodtech Startup Challenge
Gulfood · United Arab Emirates
Awards a share of a $135,000 prize pool to agri-foodtech startups pitching at Gulfood.
XPRIZE Healthspan — Finals Phase
XPRIZE · United States
Funds teams developing therapeutics that improve longevity through practical medical research and validation.
XPRIZE Quantum Applications
XPRIZE · United States
Awards a $5 million prize purse to teams that design quantum algorithms and applications ready to deliver real-world impact once quantum hardware matures.
XPRIZE Quantum Applications — Phase II
XPRIZE · United States
Funds quantum application teams bridging fundamental discovery to practical deployment-ready technologies.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity — Active Phase
XPRIZE · United States
Supports water-solvers advancing desalination systems and infrastructure for severe scarcity conditions.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity — Track A: Desalination: System-Level Innovation
XPRIZE · United States
Awards up to $40 million for a system that makes large-scale seawater desalination affordable.
XPRIZE Wildfire — Finals Phase
XPRIZE · United States
Funds teams building autonomous wildfire sensing and suppression systems for faster emergency response.
XPRIZE Wildfire Track B: Autonomous Wildfire Response
XPRIZE · United States
Pays a $3.5 million Grand Prize (plus milestone and bonus prizes from a $5 million pool) to the team whose autonomous system detects and fully suppresses a high-risk wildfire fastest.
XR Prize Challenge: Fight Climate Change
AugmentedReality.org · United States
Paid a $100,000 cash prize to the best AR/VR solution built to help fight climate change.
xTech | Kinetic Reach
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays up to $1.5 million across a field of cash prizes, including up to $150,000 each to five final winners, to small and large businesses that pitch agile military-sustainment technology to the U.S. Army.
xTech|Apex Intercept
🇺🇸Army · United States
Awards up to $8 million in cash prizes for low-cost missile interceptor technology.
xTech|Inversion
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays up to $1,000,000 in cash prizes to small businesses commercializing curated Army IP.
xTech|Live at eMerge Americas 2026
🇺🇸Army · United States
Awards up to $600,000 in cash prizes to teams pitching live at eMerge Americas 2026.
xTech|Phantum
🇺🇸Army · United States
Pays up to $200,000 in cash prizes to U.S. small businesses developing quantum sensor and photonics technology.
xTechHumanoid
Army · United States
Supports autonomous humanoid robotics efforts through prizes and potential follow-on mission contracts.
xTechScalable AI 2
🇺🇸Army · United States
Offers up to $603,000 in cash prizes and SBIR contracts for scalable military AI solutions.
xTechSoldier Fire Control
🇺🇸Army · United States
Awards up to $300,000 in cash prizes for a next-generation squad-weapon fire control module.
Yuva Yodha Energy Tech Hackathon
🇮🇳Schneider Electric · France
Pays student teams in India up to ₹20,00,000 to build working energy and sustainability prototypes at a national hackathon.
Zayed Sustainability Prize – Health
ZSP · United Arab Emirates
Pays $1 million to the winning Health solution, plus $100,000 to every other Health finalist.
Zepto Nova - Food Safety Innovation Challenge
🇮🇳Zepto · India
Pays Indian DPIIT-recognized startups and MSMEs up to ₹3 lakh, plus pilot access to Zepto's dark stores, for AI-driven food safety solutions in the quick commerce supply chain.
Konza Smart Access Control Innovation Challenge
🇮🇱KoTDA · Kenya
Funds Israeli-led startups building smart access-control solutions through a Konza challenge prize.
American-Made Solar Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. entrepreneurs advancing early-stage solar manufacturing prototypes through a DOE prize competition under the American-Made Challenges program.