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 97-120 of 460 grants
Business Plan Competition Northern Bavaria
🇩🇪BayStartUP · Germany
Awards cash prizes and expert coaching to Franconia and Upper Palatinate founders who complete the three phases of this regional business plan competition.
ClimateLaunchpad 2022
Climate-KIC · European Union
Runs a global cleantech business-idea competition through national and regional finals, awarding up to €10,000 to the Global Grand Final winner.
Collegiate Wind Competition
🇺🇸WETO · United States
Invests teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for Collegiate Wind Competition in energy systems.
Community Power Accelerator Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays U.S. community solar developers cash across three phases from a $10 million pool.
Community Power Accelerator Prize — Round 2
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays U.S. community solar developers cash across three phases from a $10 million pool.
COMpetency in Menopause & Integrated Therapy (COMMIT) Challenge
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Pays up to $200,000 per prize (total $2.5M pool) to U.S. institutions with proven menopause-education curricula.
Copernicus Masters
ESA · Global / Multinational
Awards over €300,000 in cash prizes to entrepreneurs building Earth-observation data products.
Cube Quest Challenge
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Pays up to $5 million to teams that build and fly small CubeSats around the Moon and beyond.
Data & AI Fueling R&D of Tomorrow QuickFire Challenge: Singapore & Beyond
🇺🇸J&J Innovation · United States
Supports data and AI researchers developing foundation-model-based drug discovery and multi-omics analysis through the Singapore-focused QuickFire challenge.
DataWorks! Prize
🇺🇸ODSS · United States
Supports teams sharing biomedical data broadly through recognition and competitive performance awards.
Daugherty Endowment
🇺🇸DOS · United States
Awards up to $25,000 to NC State startups that win its annual business-plan competition.
Deep Tech Award
🇩🇪Berlin Senate Dept · Germany
Splits a €50,000 total prize each year among Berlin-based deep-tech companies and startups.
Deep Tech Geeks Startups Competition
Deep Tech MEA · United Arab Emirates
Awards a free exhibition pod, travel and mentorship to deep-tech scale-ups that place in this annual competition at GITEX North Star in Dubai.
Deep Tech Startup Pitch Competition
Deep Tech Atelier · Latvia
Lets early-stage deep tech founders worldwide pitch investors live for partner prizes in Riga.
Dunin-Deshpande Seed Funding Prize (Mayor's Innovation Challenge)
🇨🇦Kingston · Canada
Gives Kingston post-secondary students phased seed funding and a part-time venture-building program for projects that improve city life or municipal services.
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.
FLOWIN Prize — Phase Two: U.S. Manufacturing Approaches
🇺🇸WETO · United States
Pays US floating-wind teams $450,000 each to plan offshore turbine manufacturing.
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.