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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Deep Tech Startup Pitch Competition
Deep Tech Atelier · Latvia
Lets early-stage deep tech founders worldwide pitch investors live for partner prizes in Riga.
EIT Food Innovation Prizes
EIT Food · European Union
Pays early-stage agrifood startups up to €10,000 at pan-European regional pitch finals.
EIT Health Catapult 10th Edition
🇪🇺EIT Health · European Union
Runs research teams and institutions for EIT Health Catapult Edition in biotechnology, medical technology, and artificial intelligence.
EIT Jumpstarter
🇱🇹Inovacijų Agentūra · Lithuania
Offers pre-seed entrepreneurship support in Lithuania through national selection and EIT-linked innovation pathways.
Electronics Scrap Recycling Advancement Prize (E-SCRAP)
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays US for-profit teams up to $4M to recover critical materials from e-scrap.
EPIC Prize Round 3 – Phase 1
🇺🇸DOE OTC · United States
Awarded $150,000 each to up to 20 incubators supporting U.S. energy startups.
Exploring Entrepreneurship Challenge
🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom
Supports Strathclyde community teams building entrepreneurial skills through a practical team challenge program.
Food Prize 2026 - Food Service Track
🇺🇸Battle Creek SBD · United States
Awards cash prizes to Michigan food-service entrepreneurs in a regional pitch competition.
FoodTech Challenge 3.0
Presidential Court · United Arab Emirates
Pays early-stage foodtech startups a share of $2 million to scale in the UAE and beyond.
FSHD Bonus Prize
XPRIZE · United States
Pays teams from a $10 million purse for therapeutics that measurably improve muscle function in people with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, run as a track alongside the main XPRIZE Healthspan competition.
FSHD Bonus Prize
SOLVE FSHD · Canada
Pays a $10 million purse to the team whose therapeutic best restores muscle function and reverses fat infiltration in people aging with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD).
FutuMed Retos de Ciudad — City Challenge (Seed)
🇨🇴Ruta N · Colombia
Funds urban challenge solutions in Medellín through practical city-focused projects with multi-partner implementation.
FuzeHub Commercialization Competition
🇺🇸FuzeHub · United States
Awards New York State manufacturing and technology startups up to $150,000 through FuzeHub's annual Commercialization Competition pitch event.
FWF Wittgenstein Award
🇦🇹FWF · Austria
Supports internationally recognized researchers in Austria through high-impact, curiosity-driven research fellowships.
GENIUS NY Round 10
🇺🇸ESD · United States
Runs research teams and institutions for GENIUS NY in robotics, aerospace, and artificial intelligence.
Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award
Cisco & Global Citizen · United States
Awards $250,000 a year to an 18-30 tech innovator fighting extreme poverty.
Global Prize for Innovation in Water (GPIW) 2026
SWA · Saudi Arabia
Pays up to $800,000 in cash prizes to water-innovation solvers worldwide.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge 2026
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.
Great Lakes Blue Tech Challenge
🇺🇸NMC · United States
Awards up to $30,000 in seed funding to freshwater and Great Lakes tech startups.
Growth Accelerator Fund Competition (GAFC)
🇺🇸SBA · United States
Funds Entrepreneur Support Organizations strengthening innovation ecosystems through commercialization and capital formation.
Heartland Challenge Startup Competition
UArk OEI · United States
Awards up to $40,000 to student-owned startup ventures pitching like a VC round.
Hello Tomorrow Japan Challenge
🇯🇵HT Japan · Japan
Selects early-stage deep tech startups to pitch investors at Tokyo's Deep Tech Summit.
Hult Prize
Hult Prize · United States
Awards $1 million in seed funding to the winning student-led startup each year.