Eligibility: students, startups, family business-owners, experts, creative minds
Prizes: Win prizes up to 3,000€
Deadline: December 22, 2021
GIX Innovation Competition 2022
Eligibility Participants must 1) be a current undergraduate student or 2) have graduated from an undergraduate degree-granting institution in May of 2020 or more recently.
Deadline December 17, 2021
Prize $15,000 Total Prize Purse
Challenge Anemia
Eligibility: academia, startups, students, general public
Deadline: September 24, 2021
Prize: $200,000
Afri-Plastics Challenge
Eligibility African Innovators
Deadline September 15, 2021
Prizes $14 Million total prize pool purse
Help a Swiss energy provider create new offerings for mid-sized enterprise
Eligibility Experts, students, startups, open innovators, creative minds.
Deadline August 2, 2021
Prizes Total prize purse of $3,200.
INNO Disruptive Challenge
Eligibility People of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities
Deadline August 2, 2021
Prize Up to 3,000,000 JPY for up to 1 year of support
Grow-NY Food & Agriculture Competition
Eligibility The Competition is open to all startups located in any state or country in the world that meet the Grow-NY definition of ‘Food and Agricultural Field’, are early-stage, and have a scalable business model. To be eligible for the Competition, an applicant must be a registered, formative stage business entity that can enter into the Investment Agreement, such as a corporation or limited liability company (LLC),that meets two or more of the following criteria:
Less than seven years from date of formal organization
Has its first product or service in testing or pilot production
Pre-revenue or early revenue
Has a leadership team working towards commercialization and profitability.
Deadline July 15, 2021
Prizes One grand prize of $1 million, two $500,000 prizes, four $250,000 prizes.
INNOKIND People of Innovation
Eligibility The competition for innovative ideas is open to anyone, from industrial professionals to academicians, from students to park visitors, and from suppliers to investors — all persons interested in creating unique, new solutions and ideas for improving the amusement park experience
Deadline June 30, 2021
Prize $20,000 USD
Prime Health Innovation Challenge
Eligibility startups, entrepreneurs, healthtech, digital health solutions
Deadline June 18, 2021
Prizes $150,000 total prize purse
MIT Solve 2021 Global Challenges
Eligibility Anyone, anywhere can apply.
Deadline June 16, 2021
Prizes $10,000 grant funded by Solve, plus various prizes per challenge topic that in total amount to more than $1.5 million in funding.
SyncUp Colorado Challenge
Eligibility Partnerships should consist of two or more cross-sector organizations that agree to cooperate and advance mutual interests. Partnering organizations can include, but are not limited to: Small, medium, and enterprise employers, School districts and local school leaders, Postsecondary institutions, Nonprofit organizations and associations, For-profit companies, Government leaders and state agencies. To be eligible, partnerships must be either: a new or existing partnership looking to pilot a new solution for young Coloradans or a new or existing partnership seeking to scale an existing solution to new young Coloradans, and have at least one Colorado-based partner.
Deadline June 1, 2021
Prizes A scale award of up to $2 Million and a seed award of up to $350K, with a total prize pool of $5 Million.
2021 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize
Eligibility Public high school skilled trades teacher applying solo
Deadline May 21, 2021
Prizes 3 grand prize winners of 100,000 each & 15 prize winners of $50,000 each
Thermador Kitchen Design Challenge Winners
Eligibility Professional designers, architects, builders, remodelers, kitchen dealers
Deadline May 15, 2021
Prize $110,000
Smart Ideas for Furniture Solutions
Eligibility: Experts, students, startups, open innovators, creative minds.
Deadline: April 11, 2021
Prizes: 3000 EUR (approx. 3600 USD)
CTIA Wireless Foundation – 2021
Eligibility Applicants must assume one of the following legal statuses and be registered in the United States as one of the following: a nonprofit organization; a for-profit enterprise with a demonstrated commitment to social good; or a B-Corporation. Individuals are not eligible to apply – please see the website for more details.
Deadline April 6, 2021, at 11:59 pm ET
Prizes $175,000 total prize pool - please see website for more information.
GENIUS NY 4 Business Competition: 2021
Eligibility
Businesses must be a startup or an existing business with less that $500,000 per year in revenue.
Businesses must be seeking outside equity capital.
Business focus must be in the broader categories of:
Unmanned systems, IoT, big data, robotics, AI
Deadline March 31, 2021
Prizes The program provides startups the tools they need for success, including stipends, incubator space, resources, programming, advisors and connections.
Future Play Design Challenge
Eligibility Startups, entrepreneurs, and designers within playful learning and children as the key target group
Deadline March 26, 2021
Prizes The winner will receive a ½ year period of special designed training within child-centric ethical co-creation in innovation & design, personal mentorship with industry & research professionals, membership of a playful entrepreneurship network, office space, and an extraordinary pitching opportunity with LEGO Ventures after maturing the business idea in 6 months of training
Next Shed by Eberspächer
Eligibility experts, students, startups, open innovators, creative minds
Deadline March 21, 2021
Prizes Total prize pool of €3010
Techstars Sustainability Challenge
Eligibility Startups that are Seed to Series B stage. Their technology needs to be market-ready and have some level of scale.
Deadline March 1, 2021
Prizes Finalists will have exclusive access to corporate innovation leaders and to potential business development opportunities with our corporate partners.
Charm Health Innovation Challenge
Eligibility All innovators - Startups, Corporates, Academia, Non-profits, Research Groups
Deadline February 20, 2021
Prizes Awards and perks available for different categories - please see website for more information