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 73-96 of 460 grants
MIT Solve Global Challenges
🇺🇸MIT · United States
Supports teams tackling global challenges by selecting and backing scalable ideas through MIT Solve challenge pathways.
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (Annual Cycle)
🇮🇳CSIR India · India
Helps teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in biotechnology, materials science, and energy systems.
Silicon Carbide (SiC) Packaging Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for Silicon Carbide Packaging Prize Competition in energy systems, semiconductors, and photonics.
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.
TechLeap Prize: Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds teams developing robotics technologies for payload manipulation in space through a NASA prize competition.
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.
AI+ OpenData Challenge
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds Korean AI startups solving public-service problems with operational data and a route to government deployment.
AlgaePrize
🇺🇸DOE AFFO · United States
Pays U.S. student teams up to $50,000 to research ways of turning algae into biofuels, food, feed and industrial products.
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.
Arm Silicon Startups Contest
Arm · United Kingdom
Awards up to $250,000 in Arm technology credit to the winner and $150,000 to the runner-up among early-stage semiconductor startups building Arm-based chip designs worldwide, with automatic consideration for Silicon Catalyst's own incubator.
Artificial Intelligence + Origin of Life Prize
Natural Code · United States
Pays $100,000, and up to $10 million if patentable, for solving the origin of genetic code.
ASML Emerging Innovator Award
ASML · Netherlands
Offers breakthrough hardware startups coaching and up to €4,000 in travel support.
Astera Essay Competition
🇺🇸Astera · United States
Supports scientists by offering an essay platform to identify field-level bottlenecks and testable strategies through the Astera Essay Competition.
Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE
Barbara Bush Foundation · United States
Awarded $7 million to teams building mobile apps that boost adult literacy.
Become a Solver
Solve · United States
Funds Solver teams selected through MIT Solve's annual Global Challenges with a share of more than $1 million in prize money.
Big Bang! Business Competition
🇺🇸Child Institute · United States
Awards up to $25,000 to startups with a California university-affiliated founder.
BioInc Pitch Competition
Mansfield BioInc · United States
Awards $125K in cash, lab space and services to biotech startups pitching for investors.
Blockchain India Challenge
🇮🇳MeitY & C-DAC · India
Pays Indian startups up to ₹50 lakh to build blockchain solutions for government use.
BNDES Garagem — Ciclo 3 (Terceira Edição)
🇧🇷BNDES · Brazil
Backs impact startups addressing green economy, education, health, public safety, and blue economy sectors.
Build 5.0
🇮🇳Boeing · United States
Awards up to Rs. 10 lakh to student and early-stage teams in aerospace, EV and green energy.