SharkNinja Innovation Challenge
Awards $25,000 and mentorship to the winning student-led innovation team.
Applicants apply online through a MassChallenge startup profile, with each team limited to one company, product, idea or solution. Finalists get eight weeks of hands-on support -- refining their pitch with innovation, marketing and pitch experts, filing a provisional patent application with matched outside counsel, and building a working prototype -- before presenting a live pitch in Boston to a p…
SharkNinja is looking for university student-led startups and early-career innovators, roughly ages 18-24, tackling three pillars: everyday consumer problem-solving, sustainability and circularity in products and packaging, and universal design for accessibility. Solutions can range from pure concept to scaling-stage products, spanning hardware, IoT, software or new business models tied to home and consumer life.
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