Prize competitions

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Pays US solar manufacturers up to $2.7 million total for EPEAT ecolabel registration.

Awards cloud credits and a Google Cloud fast track to early-stage AI startups that pitch in Paris.

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Offers a Texas A&M student idea challenge to launch early-stage startup concepts and prototypes.

Awards startups pitching at LEAP up to $250,000 in equity-free prize money.

Pays $25,000 to a Yale student team building a working hardware-and-software prototype.

Awards up to €20,000 equity-free to university-linked startups from six countries.

Pays category-winning climate and energy startups €10,000, equity free.

Awards $25,000 and mentorship to the winning student-led innovation team.

Splits a $10,000+ cash pool among winners of an annual small-farm tech innovation challenge.

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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.

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Paid U.S. solar hardware teams up to $500,000 in cash to advance prototypes toward market.

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Awards cash prizes to volunteers for outstanding contributions to sport.

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.

Awards $50,000 to the top UC San Diego-affiliated startup each year.

Pays $10,000 cash to the winning electricity-sector startup after a multi-step pitch competition.

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.

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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.

Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.

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

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

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

Awards Canadian student founders up to $10,000 in a national bracket-style pitch competition.

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

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