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 193-216 of 458 grants
American-Made Challenges: Perovskite Startup Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Paid new US for-profit companies cash and lab vouchers to move perovskite solar-cell research out of the lab and into commercial manufacturing.
American-Made Community Power Accelerator Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds new, emerging, and expanding U.S. solar developers growing operations to support multiple community solar projects through a DOE prize competition.
American-Made Heliostat Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. innovators developing and demonstrating heliostat components through a DOE prize competition under the American-Made Challenges program.
American-Made LASSO Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. companies and organizations piloting cattle agrivoltaics projects through a phased prize competition to generate cost and outcome data.
American-Made PRIME Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. solar manufacturers and innovators registering photovoltaic modules and inverters with the EPEAT ecolabel through a prize competition.
American-Made Science Synthesis Prize: Identifying Key Barriers to Renewable Integration
🇺🇸Office of Electricity · United States
Pays up to $10,000 each to teams synthesizing renewable-integration research for DOE.
American-Made Solar Desalination Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. teams developing low-cost solar-thermal desalination systems through a multi-stage prize competition with a $1 million grand prize.
American-Made Solar Prize Round 1
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Awarded up to $500,000 cash and lab vouchers to solar-manufacturing innovators.
Arch Grants Startup Competition
Arch Grants · United States
Awards $75,000 in equity-free funding to startups that relocate to St. Louis.
ARISE-HIV LAUNCH Challenge
🇺🇸OAR · United States
Pays cash prizes for pragmatic ideas that improve access, delivery, engagement or retention of long-acting HIV care.
Arizona Innovation Challenge — Fall 2026
🇺🇸ACA · United States
Awards SaaS startups a minimum $50,000 in non-dilutive funding plus three months of hands-on support in Arizona.
ARPA-I Ideas and Innovation Challenge — Stage 2
🇺🇸ARPA-I · United States
Supports transportation infrastructure challengers advancing knowledge, construction, optimization, and enabling technologies through ARPA-I competition.
Asian Paints Alchemy 2026
Asian Paints · India
Offers ₹9,00,000 in PhD sponsorships, internships and cash rewards to chemistry and coatings researchers.
Autonomous Systems for Customer Experience, Safety, and Operations at YPF Full-Black store
YPF · Argentina
Awards a $20,000 pilot to autonomous tech for retail service, security or monitoring.
Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition (BPW)
🇩🇪BPW · Germany
Awards up to €20,000 in prize money to startups founded in Berlin or Brandenburg.
Beyond the Meter: Energy Storage Integration Prize
🇺🇸Office of Electricity · United States
Awards up to $3.4M in cash plus $800K in DOE lab vouchers for behind-the-meter energy storage integration.
BFTP CNP TechCelerator
🇺🇸Ben Franklin Tech Partners · United States
Funds local entrepreneurs with accelerator support and pitching assistance to strengthen real-world implementation.
Bharat Startup Grand Challenge 2026 - Delhi
🇮🇳MASA Forum · India
Offers up to ₹5 lakh plus mentorship to Indian startups building indigenous defence tech.
BioChallenge 2026
NOBIC · United States
Awards funding to neuroscience-focused life-science startups who pitch live in New Orleans.
BlindFlight Resilience Challenge
EDGE · United Arab Emirates
Awards $25,000 for a UAV navigation system that survives GNSS jamming and spoofing.
Breakthrough Award (GPID)
GPID · Saudi Arabia
Awards $100,000 cash plus up to $200,000 in piloting to mature desalination tech.
Build with Gemini XPRIZE
XPRIZE · United States
Pays AI developers worldwide up to $500,000 to build real businesses with Gemini in 90 days.
Building Better Futures for Health (BBFH) Challenge
🇦🇺IDE Group & MTAA · Australia
Awards up to $40,000 in MedTech commercialisation services to Australian healthcare startups.
Building Better Futures for Health 2027 Challenge
🇦🇺IDE · Australia
Awards up to $40,000 in IDE Group MedTech design and commercialisation services to Australian health-tech innovators.