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 433-456 of 460 grants
US Navy Challenge: Autonomous Detection of Marine Mammals
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Pays teams up to $75,500 to build sensor systems that detect whales near naval and commercial vessels.
Verizon Community Disaster Resilience Innovation Accelerator
🇺🇸MassChallenge · United States
Supports teams solving disaster resilience with advances in analytics, communications, autonomy, power, sensing, and prediction technologies.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Water Innovation Fund · United Kingdom
Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.
Water Resource Recovery Prize
🇺🇸DOE AMO · United States
Pays up to $1 million to teams recovering energy, nutrients and water from wastewater plants.
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.
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.
Zayed Sustainability Prize – Health
ZSP · United Arab Emirates
Pays $1 million to the winning Health solution, plus $100,000 to every other Health finalist.