Verizon Community Disaster Resilience Innovation Accelerator
Supports teams solving disaster resilience with advances in analytics, communications, autonomy, power, sensing, and prediction technologies.
The Verizon Community Disaster Resilience Innovation Accelerator is an annual program co-run by MassChallenge and Verizon that awards non-dilutive cash to U.S.-based startups developing disaster resilience technologies. In the 2026 cycle, up to eight finalist startups each received $50,000 in non-dilutive prize funding, and up to two additional startups received a $50,000 prototyping grant for thi…
AI analytics, communication infrastructure, drones/autonomous systems, power generation, satellites, sensors, weather prediction — all requiring Verizon 5G technological fit.
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