20 Opportunities for Entrepreneurs and Innovators currently open Deadline July – December 2024

1. Young Caribbean Water Entrepreneurs Shark Tank Competition 2024 ($4,000 in Seed funding)

The Young Caribbean Water Entrepreneurs Shark Tank Competition seeks to provide a unique opportunity for young persons from the Caribbean, aged 18 to 34 years, to pitch innovative and impactful water-related project ideas to support better water resources management in their community, country or the Caribbean region.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: August 4

2. Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC) 2024 (Over $1 million in prizes + Investment Opportunities)

The Entrepreneurship World Cup is one of the biggest and most diverse startup pitch competitions and support programs of its kind, featuring more than 370,000 entrepreneurs from over 200 countries and territories while offering winners life-changing prizes.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 31

3. Advance your Entrepreneurship Skill with the PowerUp Program

The PowerUP Entrepreneurship Program empowers young Nigerians by providing them with the necessary tools and support to excel as entrepreneurs. The PowerUp Entrepreneurship program is an initiative of Access Corporation and is implemented by the NerdzFactory Foundation. The program aims to empower young Nigerians in entrepreneurial skills and bridge the gap between ideation and actualization, equipping them to start and grow sustainable businesses. To maximise impact, the program is divided into several components, including:
Click here to find out more | Deadline: Ongoing

4. 15Wins School of Entrepreneurship 2024 Call for Mentors

Have you ever built a mature business? Have you over a decade of experience building businesses with extremely scalable business models? Are you committed to helping younger entrepreneurs grow their businesses from ideation to unicorn status? 15Wins School of Entrepreneurship is calling for you to become a mentor in its Academy.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: Ongoing

5. Milestone Makers Program for Entrepreneurs – Fall 2024

Milestone Makers is not just a program; it’s a game-changer for entrepreneurs. Launched in 2016 by the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center, it’s a prestigious, fully customized platform offering a 3-month part-time journey where select entrepreneurs receive invaluable support, coaching, and resources at absolutely no cost. The program’s essence lies in helping these entrepreneurs set, hit, and celebrate milestones crucial for their company’s growth.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 29, 2024

6. Creative Business Cup Nigeria 2024 for Entrepreneurs (Win N1,000,000)

Creative Business Cup is much more than just a competition – it is a global year-round initiative that empowers entrepreneurs in the creative industries, helping them grow their business ideas, connecting them to investors and the global markets, and strengthening their innovative capabilities to the benefit of industry and society.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: Unspecified

7.Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) 2024-2025 (up to £25,000)

The Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) scheme aims to increase the knowledge and awareness in UK universities of cutting-edge industrial science, research and innovation.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: September 18

8. Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Scholarship Programme for Young Entrepreneurial Development 2024. 

The Scholarship Programme offers high school entrepreneurial scholarships to learners who have a curious, entrepreneurial mindset; have the potential to excel academically and are financially deserving. Scholarship recipients receive funding to enrol at leading high schools across the country in addition to support and interventions that develop their entrepreneurial talents.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: September 16

9. D-Prize Global Competition 2024

They seed new organizations distributing proven poverty solutions, all aiming to scale. D-Prize is looking for entrepreneurs who can design a new nonprofit or social venture that distributes an existing poverty solution to thousands, maybe even millions of people.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: August 4

10. BIND Open Innovation & Acceleration Program 2024.

The BIND Open Innovation and Acceleration Program connects dynamic startup teams with well-established companies, to provide external solutions for their internal digital transformation challenges while promoting the development of commercial skills and encouraging the immersion of startups in the local ecosystem, catalyzing new business opportunities.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: September 6, 2024

11. World Summit Awards (WSA) Young Innovators 2024

Click here to find out more | Deadline: October 15, 2024

12. EIT Food Competition 2024 for Innovators (Win up to €3,000)

Can you imagine the power of your ideas resonating worldwide? You are invited to channel your entrepreneurial spirit and develop fresh ideas for the EIT Food Competition 2024. Seize the chance to make a tangible impact and be recognized for your contribution to building a future-fit food system that produces healthy and sustainable food for all. This competition is your platform to make a tangible impact on building a sustainable and resilient food system.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: December 31,2024.

13. African Social Innovation Fellowship 2024

The African Social Innovation Fellowship (ASIF) is a six-month immersive program designed to equip young leaders, social innovators, and changemakers with the skills, network, and resources to drive sustainable social impact across Africa.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: August 4, 2024

14. Lineage Food Chain Innovation Challenge 2024

Calling all innovators, developers, designers and entrepreneurs! Apply for the Lineage Food Chain Innovation Challenge 2024. Lineage is inviting forward-thinking students and startups from across the world to help address the complexities of the food supply chain, explore new perspectives, and propose innovative solutions that can reshape how we feed the world.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: September 30, 2024

15. GAIN AGRIBusiness Innovation Challenge 2024

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition in partnership with the Nigeria Climate Innovation Center (NCIC) has co-created the Agribusiness Innovation Challenge to attract eligible agritech startups with solutions for improving the food supply chain in Nigeria.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 26, 2024

16. GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security 2024

In 2015, under the umbrella of its Creativity and Innovation Initiative, the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and its Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme established a prize in order to recognise deserving individuals or organisations that have an innovative approach to addressing international security challenges.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: November 23, 2024

17. Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge 2024 (up to $10,000)

Social Shifters Global Innovation Challenge is designed to support young people (18-30 years), from anywhere in the world, who want to take action on the social and environmental issues that impact them and their community.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 31, 2024

18. India EVolve Innovation Challenge 2024

The India EVolve Innovation Challenge invites young creative minds from across India to ideate scalable solutions to decarbonize India’s transport sector. Focusing on technology, social impact, governance, and financial viability, this challenge aims to shape sustainable transportation’s future by gathering innovative ideas and thoughts that can be implemented and scaled specifically to reduce impact of the last mile parcel DELIVERY sector.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: July 30, 2024

19. Global Innovation Fellowships: The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) 2025.

The programme is supported under the UK Government’s International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF). The £337m fund is designed to enable potential and foster prosperity. It puts research and innovation at the heart of British Academy’s international relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to work with peers around the world on the major themes of our time: planet, health, tech, and talent. The fund is managed by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and delivered by a consortium of the UK’s leading research and innovation bodies.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: September 25, 2024

20. ODA Global Innovation Fellowships 2024

The objective of the ODA (Official Development Assistance) Global Innovation Fellowships is to provide opportunities to UK-based early-and mid-career researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to develop their skills, networks and careers in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions.
Click here to find out more | Deadline: November 6, 2024

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