Prize competitions

Awards University of Toronto-affiliated early-stage founders up to $15,000 CAD for a three-minute pitch, as part of an annual competition with over $100,000 in total prizes.

Awards University of Toronto-affiliated later-stage founders up to $40,000 CAD for a three-minute pitch, as part of an annual competition with over $100,000 in total prizes.

Awards $15,000 CAD to designers reimagining tall buildings for downtown Vancouver.

Awards up to CHF 150,000 in cash prizes to early-stage Swiss startups and nonprofits, no equity taken.

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Awards women founders or co-founders under 35 up to €50,000, with €30,000 and €20,000 for the second and third highest-ranked entries, for pioneering deep-tech or STEM breakthroughs across the EU and Horizon Europe associated countries.

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Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

Offers pitch time, mentoring and investor exposure to five category-winning startups.

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Pays up to $600,000 in prizes to teams building rapid, low-cost drug-testing device prototypes.

Awards $4,000+ in cash and hardware for the best wearable built with Autodesk Fusion and Arduino UNO Q.

Awards $2,500 for the best Tiny House design in an open international competition.

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Pays cash prizes for public datasets that help predict oligonucleotide drug toxicity in human cells.

Awards up to $650,000 across three phases for digital tools tracking autoimmune nutrition.

Pays up to $12,000 to the winning high-school team in its $100K global pitch competition.

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Awards up to $13.1 million across three phases to US-based teams developing novel technologies that target RNA to treat human disease.

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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.

Awards up to $250,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to Tufts-affiliated founders.

Pays equity-free cash prizes to exhibiting startups that pitch live on the main stage at GITEX AI Kazakhstan.

Pays up to USD 15,000 in equity-free cash to the top pitch at GITEX AI Kazakhstan's Supernova Challenge.

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Pays community garden organizers up to $8,000 each to make gardens more accessible.

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Funds new, emerging, and expanding U.S. solar developers growing operations to support multiple community solar projects through a DOE prize competition.

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Funds U.S. solar manufacturers and innovators registering photovoltaic modules and inverters with the EPEAT ecolabel through a prize competition.

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Supports internationally recognized researchers in Austria through high-impact, curiosity-driven research fellowships.

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Funds Canadian innovators solving defence and security problems through IDEaS grant-prize contests.

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Supports University of Strathclyde startups and spinouts through Inspire100 pitching events and prize opportunities.