Prize competitions

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Awards $10,000 cash to a winning health startup in each of two tracks, FDA-regulated and non-FDA, plus access to Investor Judges for a shot at follow-on investment.

Between cycles

Paid up to $20,000 each to as many as 25 winners in Phase I of a three-phase NIH challenge for technologies that target RNA directly to treat human disease.

Between cycles

Runs TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield in San Francisco with founder visibility and founder competition awards.

Between cycles

Awards MassChallenge startups up to $500,000 a year in nondilutive funding for ISS-based R&D.

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Awards $25,000 to $50,000 in non-dilutive funding to Chicago's underrepresented tech founders.

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Awards a minimum of $300,000 plus two years of support to ten global social-impact leaders yearly.

Between cycles

Supports innovators designing bladder and prostate cancer therapies and surgical tools through a J&J urologic oncology challenge.

Between cycles

Funds accelerator and pitch support for deep-tech teams at Imperial College through an equity-free venture challenge.

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Supports UCD researchers launching commercial ventures based on university intellectual property.

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Offers healthcare startups a live pitch stage at ViVE and a grand prize to help them scale.

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Supports women founders with a focused programme of mentorship and investor readiness for startup growth.

Between cycles

Paid a $2 million purse to teams building affordable, accurate ocean pH and CO2 sensors.

Between cycles

Paid a $1.4 million purse to teams that could skim spilled ocean oil faster and cleaner.

Between cycles

Supports drone and counter-drone innovation through prizes and demonstration pathways.

Between cycles

Supports mobile power, payload, and mobility innovation through substantial competitive prize initiatives.

Between cycles

Awards a $25,000 cash prize to the most creative Yale venture with no other fitting prize.

Between cycles

Awards NPOs and SMEs tackling sustainability challenges across six prize categories.

Closed

Funds developers of payloads that can be manipulated by a robotic arm in low Earth orbit with cash prizes and a hosted orbital flight test.

Closed

Awards $125K in cash, lab space and services to biotech startups pitching for investors.

Closed

Pays teams up to $10,000 each, plus six months of biotech mentoring, for drug-use research ideas.

Closed

Awards up to $75,000 and a 5-month accelerator to entrepreneurs building aging-research startups.

Closed

Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.

Closed

Pays student teams up to €6,000 to design a locally-buildable clean energy solution that solves a real community's energy access, efficiency or reliability problem.

Closed

Awards up to $250,000 to teams building tools that make distributed solar generation visible.