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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4YFN Awards
GSMA · United Kingdom
Awards up to €20,000 cash and global stage exposure to the top digital startup at Barcelona's 4YFN.
A2A Life Ventures – Non-Patented Concepts
A2A · Italy
Pays $10,000 to $15,000 for promising non-patented clean-tech startup ideas in energy transition and the circular economy, with a chance to join A2A's venture-building program.
A2A Life Ventures – Patentable Solutions
A2A · Italy
Pays $20,000 to $30,000 for patentable clean-tech products or processes in energy transition and the circular economy, in exchange for the exclusive right once filed.
A2A Life Ventures – Patented Solutions
A2A · Italy
Pays $30,000 to $50,000 for already-patented clean-tech products or technologies in energy transition and the circular economy, in exchange for the IP.
Academia Sinica Scholar Award (ASSA)
🇹🇼Academia Sinica · Taiwan
Supports Taiwan researchers with structured pathways in early-career academic excellence awards, from planning to deployment.
ACHEMA Start-up Award
DECHEMA · Germany
Awards 15,000 Euro plus exhibition space and mentoring to the winning early-stage company at the ACHEMA Start-up Award 2027, for new ventures in chemistry, process engineering or biotechnology.
Advanced Cybersecurity Technology (ACT) 1 Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays cash prizes and technical assistance to utilities that harden their cybersecurity.
AFI Global Idea Challenge
AFI · United States
Pays up to $7,000 in cash, plus a fully paid trip to Seoul, to anyone with an idea that reduces or replaces animal testing.
Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026
ADTF · United States
Pays cash prizes for on-device AI models that run on everyday budget laptops in Africa.
Ag Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸AFBF · United States
Awards US agriculture startups up to $100,000 in a national pitch competition for rural innovation, backed by $145,000 in total prize funds.
Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge
A4IP · Italy
Awards cash prizes, mentoring and scholarships to innovators using or conserving agrobiodiversity.
AI Challenge Competition #2
🇪🇺AI-BOOST · European Union
Funds AI teams building generative-AI tools for clinical-dataset enhancement or automotive crash-test case generation, paying up to €100,000 in prizes after an initial €28,500 concept-stage award.
AI Co-Scientist Challenge Korea — Track 2
MSIT · South Korea
Funds teams worldwide developing AI agents for science and technology research through MSIT's annual AI Co-Scientist Challenge, with up to USD 1.9 million in follow-on startup support for winners.
AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge — Phase I (Seed Concepts)
🇺🇸Bezos Earth Fund · United States
Supports AI teams tackling climate and nature problems, including biodiversity and grid efficiency, through Bezos-backed concept grants.
AI for Industry Challenge
Intrinsic · United States
Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.
AI Startup Challenge 2026
🇺🇸CBS · United States
Awards $40K+ in prizes to grad students at Columbia, Cornell Tech, NYU or Yale pitching AI-driven startups.
AI Startup Challenge 2026: Applied AI and the Future of Business
🇺🇸CBS · United States
Awards $40K+ in prizes to graduate-student teams building AI-driven startups.
AI Venture Velocity Challenge
🇺🇸Deloitte & Midjourney · United States
Awards $175,000 in cash prizes to student teams building AI-accelerated ventures.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1
🇪🇺EU · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 to teams building a GenAI mission generator for farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1: GenAI-Based Natural Language Mission Generator for Autonomous Robots in Agriculture
🇪🇺AI-BOOST · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition (Challenges 3 and 4)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.
Alternative, Scalable Synthetic Routes for Phase II-ready Small Molecule
InnoCentive Seeker · Global / Multinational
Pays $50,000 for a scalable, low-cost synthesis route for a Phase II drug candidate.
Alumni Startup Competition
28DIGITAL · European Union
Awards a EUR 5,000 cash prize to the top EIT Digital alumni-founded startup.
America’s Startup
🇺🇸America250 · United States
Awards $25,000-$50,000 in non-dilutive grants to U.S. undergraduate student founders.