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 121-144 of 458 grants
NIA Start-Up Challenge
🇺🇸NIA · United States
Funds US entrepreneurs and small businesses developing healthy-aging technologies through NIA's Start-Up Challenge cash prizes and accelerator.
NL Startup Competition
🇳🇱NLSC · Netherlands
Awards Dutch startups up to €10,000 and a five-week Draper University program in Silicon Valley.
NL Startup Competition x Draper 2026
🇳🇱NLSC · Netherlands
Awards Dutch startups up to €10,000 in cash plus a five-week Draper University program in Silicon Valley.
PeaceRise Innovation Challenge
PeaceRise · United States
Awards a $6,000 prize pool to individuals, teams and organisations building technology or innovation projects that advance global peace.
Planetary Solutions Prize
🇺🇸Yale CBEY · United States
Awards Yale student ventures up to $35,000 for sustainability-focused startups.
PME Pitch Awards
🇵🇹PME Magazine · Portugal
Awards a 5,000-euro cash prize to the winning pitch from early-stage entrepreneurs at Portugal's Fórum PME Magazine.
Polyphonic AI Fund for Surgery QuickFire Challenge — #2
🇺🇸J&J Innovation · United States
Funds surgical artificial intelligence projects in decision support, data governance, and operating efficiency.
Presidential Innovation Challenge and Award
🇰🇪KENIA · Kenya
Supports Kenyan innovators through a national initiative that highlights high-impact research and solution-focused innovation outcomes.
Progressive Automotive XPRIZE
XPRIZE · United States
Paid $10 million to teams building production-ready cars that hit over 100 miles per gallon.
Promoting Registration of Inverters and Modules with Ecolabel (PRIME) Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays US solar manufacturers up to $2.7 million total for EPEAT ecolabel registration.
RAISE the STAKES
Chain Of Events · France
Awards cloud credits and a Google Cloud fast track to early-stage AI startups that pitch in Paris.
Raymond Ideas Challenge
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Offers a Texas A&M student idea challenge to launch early-stage startup concepts and prototypes.
Rocket Fuel Pitch Competition
LEAP · Saudi Arabia
Awards startups pitching at LEAP up to $250,000 in equity-free prize money.
Rothberg Catalyzer Prize
🇺🇸Tsai CITY · United States
Pays $25,000 to a Yale student team building a working hardware-and-software prototype.
Santander X Global Award
🇪🇸Santander · Spain
Awards up to €20,000 equity-free to university-linked startups from six countries.
SET Award
dena · Germany
Pays category-winning climate and energy startups €10,000, equity free.
SharkNinja Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸SharkNinja · United States
Awards $25,000 and mentorship to the winning student-led innovation team.
Small Farm Innovation Challenge
CAFF · United States
Splits a $10,000+ cash pool among winners of an annual small-farm tech innovation challenge.
Solar Desalination Round 2
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays teams up to $1 million to build solar-thermal systems that desalinate very-high-salinity wastewater, such as water produced by oil and gas extraction.
Solar Prize Round 5 — Hardware Track
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Paid U.S. solar hardware teams up to $500,000 in cash to advance prototypes toward market.
SPIE Startup Challenge
SPIE · United States
Pays up to $10,000 to photonics startups pitching at Photonics West 2027.
Startup Global
🇨🇦Startup Canada · Canada
Gives Canadian export-ready founders a shot at a $100,000 cash prize pool across the Startup Global National and Pop-up Pitch Competitions, plus a spot on the Grand Finale stage in Mississauga.
Startup of the Year
🇺🇸UCSD · United States
Awards $50,000 to the top UC San Diego-affiliated startup each year.
Startup Prize: Energy — Electricity Track
Prize Fdn · United States
Pays $10,000 cash to the winning electricity-sector startup after a multi-step pitch competition.