Prize competitions

Between cycles

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

Between cycles

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

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

Paid teams a $3.3 million pool to build wave-powered desalination units for disaster relief.

Between cycles

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

Supports autonomous humanoid robotics efforts through prizes and potential follow-on mission contracts.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Closed

Supports Taiwan researchers with structured pathways in early-career academic excellence awards, from planning to deployment.

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.

Closed

Pays cash prizes and technical assistance to utilities that harden their cybersecurity.

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.