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 25-48 of 458 grants
Lupus Insight Prize
LRA · United States
Provides prize recognizing a specific significant recent lupus research discovery through the Lupus Insight Prize.
NOURISH: Autoimmunity Digital Health Challenge
🇺🇸OADR-ORWH · United States
Awards up to $650,000 across three phases for digital tools tracking autoimmune nutrition.
Diamond Challenge
Horn Entrepreneurship · United States
Pays up to $12,000 to the winning high-school team in its $100K global pitch competition.
Targeting RNA in Disease with Novel Technologies (TRDNT) Challenge
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Awards up to $13.1 million across three phases to US-based teams developing novel technologies that target RNA to treat human disease.
TRDNT Challenge Phase II: Prototype Development and Use Case Demonstration
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Pays up to $120,000 per Interim Milestone winner and up to $320,000 per Final Submission winner to US-based researchers, startups and institutions that build a working prototype technology able to target endogenous RNA in human disease.
Tufts New Ventures Competition
Derby E-Center · United States
Awards up to $250,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to Tufts-affiliated founders.
Supernova Challenge
GITEX CAC · United Arab Emirates
Pays equity-free cash prizes to exhibiting startups that pitch live on the main stage at GITEX AI Kazakhstan.
Supernova Challenge
GITEX AI Kazakhstan · United Arab Emirates
Pays up to USD 15,000 in equity-free cash to the top pitch at GITEX AI Kazakhstan's Supernova Challenge.
Cultivating Connected Communities Challenge
🇺🇸Administration for Community L · United States
Pays community garden organizers up to $8,000 each to make gardens more accessible.
IDEaS Contests
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Funds Canadian innovators solving defence and security problems through IDEaS grant-prize contests.
Inspire100 Pitching Competition
🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom
Supports University of Strathclyde startups and spinouts through Inspire100 pitching events and prize opportunities.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (Annual Cycle)
🇮🇳CSIR India · India
Recognizes outstanding individual contributions to fundamental or applied science and technology through India's annual CSIR science prize.
Space Florida Capital Accelerator — Pitch
🇺🇸Space Florida · United States
Offers Florida aerospace and deep-tech startups mentoring and pitching opportunities through the Space Florida Capital Accelerator.
MIT $100K Pitch Contest
🇺🇸MIT · United States
Supports MIT affiliates through a public pitch platform that recognizes bold early startup ideas.
Synapse Life Science Competition
🇨🇦Innovation Factory · United Kingdom
Awards cash and in-kind prizes to Ontario life-science innovators who pitch a plan.
Start Up Energy Transition Award
dena · Germany
Awards €10,000 per category to energy-transition startups founded within the last 10 years.
Start Up Energy Transition Award 2027
dena · Germany
Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.
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🇨🇭venture · Switzerland
Awards up to CHF 150,000 in cash prizes to early-stage Swiss startups and nonprofits, no equity taken.
Gateways to Blue Skies Competition
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Pays U.S. student teams $9,000 plus NASA internships for aviation innovation ideas.
Academic Award — Praemium Academiae
🇨🇿CAS · Czechia
Funds Czech Academy institutes supporting outstanding scientists and their international-level research through a selective financial award.
Aggie PITCH
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Offers a Texas A&M student pitch platform helping early ventures communicate and attract support.
AGIBOT WORLD CHALLENGE 2026
AGIBOT · China
Awards $10,000 robot-purchase vouchers to top teams in a global humanoid-robotics manipulation and world-modeling competition.
AI by HER: The Impact Challenge for Women in AI
IndiaAI Mission · India
Awards INR 25 lakh each to 10 women-led AI teams tackling real-world public challenges.
AI for Humanity Prize
PJMF · United States
Funds AI innovation projects in climate, health, learning, and opportunity through the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.