If you’re a competitive FinTech, InsurTech, RegTech or Islamic FinTech startup looking for opportunities in one of the most exciting financial industry regions in the world, then this programme is for you! Our programme offers the most innovative of startups mentoring, workshops, funding opportunities, industry insights, marketing exposure and more.

In addition to an award of up to €25,000, the Grand Prix winners benefit from personalised support from Orange experts, and high media coverage of their project on the continent and beyond.

AI technologies and business applications continue to evolve. Techstars Montreal AI will select startups that advance the development and application of artificial intelligence across all industries and markets.

This should be an enjoyable process for all parties, and we don’t want any barriers to keep you from joining the program. That’s why we don’t take any equity. Instead, we’ll give you €15.000 to join, and to help you cover travel and living expenses while in Copenhagen.

The Food Solutions Challenge is a local event series and case competition that challenges today’s brightest minds to find solutions to pressing issues in food and agriculture.

Space4Impact reveals the added value of space data and infrastructures to financial actors, while supporting activities that are aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs)

LUISS ENLABS is looking for visionary entrepreneurs and we're committed to turn them into market changers in 5 months, accelerating their startups in our inspiring ecosystem. We invest up to €160K for every digital startup that joins the Program.

The structured online assessment program helps the venture funds associated with the platform to discover & invest in promising ‘post revenue’ tech startups from any part of the world.

Companies responding to the Announcement of Opportunity (AO) are invited to propose Demonstration Projects dedicated to the deployment and demonstration of pre-operational services, addressing Healthcare or Education.

The fellowships provide resources to cover basic living expenses that amount €2,600/month at the senior scientist level. The fellowship does not include health insurance (which is mandatory in Germany), nor contributions to pension schemes.

coLABS is an early-stage investment portfolio seeking to invest in bold, innovative, and widely scalable social enterprises that have the potential to dramatically improve the lives of women and girls across communities in Africa.

A global call to reach the most disruptive startups, entrepreneurs, innovators and existing technologies to mitigate Covid-19 impacts on tourism through health, economic and destination recovery solutions.

The foundation supports projects that demonstrate local leadership and promote professional development in the conservation, agricultural, and health sciences; develop the capacity of local organizations; and address a particular problem or question in the field.

Do you have an innovative idea or even a finished project? Show it to our experts. All applications will be evaluated and the most promising solutions are guaranteed to receive the grant funding equivalent to 2M UAH (≈70K USD).

PARSEC will provide SMEs from different emerging industry sectors (food, energy, environment) with the necessary resources to develop and launch EO-based services with a strong value for users and a solid business proposition.

The goal of this call is to enable the continuation of the services provided by Safer Internet Centres (SICs) at national level under previous CEF calls.

LH Accelerator is looking to work with innovative companies who are either active in the construction industry or have solutions that could be applied to the industry.

The winning path Mastercard is an award winning program that provides startups with advanced technology to expand rapidly through unprecedented access to technology, solutions and Mastercard solution partners worldwide.

Our startup generator program helps you get from 0 to 1 in two phases. The first phase is about team and idea - in this phase you will find your cofounder, develop and validate your business idea. You'll need to be on location for the first phase.

The US $100,000 prize celebrates Africans who are taking control of Africa’s agriculture agenda. It puts a spotlight on bold initiatives and technical innovations that can be replicated across the continent to create a new era of food security and economic opportunity for all Africans.

The World Food Prize is the foremost international award recognizing the accomplishments of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food in the world. The World Food Prize is a $250,000 award formally presented at the Laureate Award Ceremony in mid-October, on or around World Food Day, in conjunction with the Borlaug Dialogue international symposium.

This topic calls for bottom-up proposals addressing any renewable technology currently in the early phases of research. Activities also might include energy materials, catalysts, enzymes, microorganisms, models, tools and equipment, as long as those are strictly connected to the energy conversion process.

The program offers you the resources, knowledge, support, and funding necessary to scale your idea and grow it into an international business.

The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) provides a range of financial and technical instruments to support projects proposed by enterprises, cooperatives and institutions along the entire commodity value chain in its member countries.

Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech is looking for the next generation of entrepreneurs and startup founders actively changing the world of competitive and professional sports. Are you in? It's game time.

Facebook Community Accelerator is a program to equip impactful communities with the training, mentorship and funds to grow

To reinforce cooperation and strategic partnership with selected countries in Africa to support the strengthening of existing digital innovation hubs (DIHs) in Africa and to facilitate the collaboration between EU and African DIHs in order to strengthen a common EU-Africa innovation and start-up ecosystem.

The Agricultural Technologies and Plant Sciences Business Bootcamp was made for entrepreneurs with either an agricultural solution – technology, process, or growth technique - which needs to be demonstrated, or a plant derivative – such as seeds – to be scaled up and/or regulated for US market traction, with relevant customers and partners.

RIS Innovation Prizes competition is one of the largest startup competitions in the agrifood vertical in Southern and Eastern Europe. Prizes are awarded to entrepreneurs and early stage startups to support the development of new products and services which can help transform our food system, making it healthier, more sustainable and more trusted.

We are looking for startups with most disruptive ideas focused on solving real needs in the tourism and gastronomy sector with a responsible approach.

The $1M Roddenberry Prize is a call for big, bold solutions from anyone, anywhere that address the challenges of an unpredictable and fast-changing global landscape. Four game-changing and innovative solutions will each receive $250,000 for their work in one of the following fields: Education, Science, Environment, and Humanity. We invite anyone — individuals, for-profits, teams, non-profits, and B-corps — to apply.

This is your chance to win a PAID pilot in the City of Cities and solve a significant challenge! Join CityTech RUHR to solve the challenges, receive funding for the implementation and pilot, and create a great solution that other cities will need as well!

OFID works to support SDG 2 through promoting sustainable food production and more resilient agriculture across the world. At the end of 2018, OFID’s cumulative commitments to the agriculture sector stood at US$3,142.5m, or 13.7% of the organization’s total commitments.

The challenge is to develop a safe and sustainable battery for electric-vehicles through the development of new materials and chemistries making use of abundant, sustainable low cost materials, which are easily available in Europe.

In 2018, OFID’s Grants and Technical Assistance window approved US$2.2m to rural energy schemes aimed at harnessing renewable energy sources in Mali, Niger and Senegal, and installing mini-grids in India and Zambia.

MARL goal is to build a community of early-stage investors, startup founders, and corporate venture teams in the space of Mobility, Autonomy, Robotics and Logistics which will experience a huge disruption with the spread of wireless 5G technology.

Google for Startups, together with CoCoon, pioneers a one-stop landing program called 92 Express to help global entrepreneurs build hardware startups. 92 Express aims to empower startups with an express path to hardware innovation.

The MIT Solve community is looking for technology-based solutions for a low-carbon global food system that provides nutrition with minimal environmental impact.

The 50 startups selected for this six-month acceleration programme will receive free entrepreneurial trainings, acceleration and incubation mobility programme and mentoring.

The Kampala INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 is a contribution to the joint efforts to solve these challenges. The hackathon addresses some of the key topics identified by the IST-Africa conference, such as agriculture, environmental sustainability, collaborative open innovation and ICT-enabled entrepreneurship.

Techstars Iowa, Techstars’ first accelerator in Iowa, is open to startups addressing innovations across a broad technology landscape and with specific relevance to Iowa industries such as Fintech, HealthTech, EdTech, AgTech and Insurtech, and cross-vertical disciplines such as automation, engineering, manufacturing, and virtual and augmented reality.

The 6 month program is designed to help grow and scale your Industry 4.0 business through investment, events, mentorships, coaching, services and the intensive support. Up to $110,000 investment in your business in cash and services​.

This category caters for systemic change and much improved access to food by all people while maintaining a strong connection between food production, storage and supply to local, regional and global beneficiaries showing an impact on human settlements.

Kaspersky Open Innovation Program is inviting innovative startups to support the growth of new joint business activities. For startup teams and individual projects.

Startups participating in the program will be able to join on of three modules, according to where they are based, or through Partners selection: Latin America, North America, and Europe exposing the most innovative startups to deal opportunities, in a direct and personal connection with the program partners.

Two calls will be implemented with a total budget of 7,2M€, allowing to fund 120 VAPs (60k€/VAP), and targeting markets of developing countries, large emerging economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, Mexico) and developed countries with the same allocation for each of these three country categories.

IRSUS helps tech start-ups willing to reach market success under a pan-European approach thanks to a network of top-experts who will provide free support on training, fundraising, networking, and promotion. We want your success, not your equity.

Freepoint’s team of industry professionals bring real-world experience, having built and grown a global business in less than a decade. Now, we are looking to invest in your success.

We help promising young start-ups get going by hosting them free of charge and providing expertise and a constant flow of contacts so they can generate sales more quickly. Lastly, we promote innovation within Wavestone to keep our consultancy services agile and innovative.

The Iowa AgriTech Accelerator is designed to build upon one of the region’s key industries - agriculture - and Greater Des Moines’ success in advancing startups and technology through its many resources available to entrepreneurs. The program fosters innovation and helps Central Iowa continue to be one of the top regions in the nation for startup companies.

The Altair Startup Program caters to the needs of high-tech startups, spanning product development, high-performance computing, and data analytics.

FAC culminates every year with its Global Agripreneurs Summit, where the most promising ideas and ventures on an international level are selected to compete for the title of the ”Agripreneur of the Year”.

The objective of this call is to support the design and delivery of Master programmes specialised in digital domains to be disseminated via the Digital Skills and Jobs Core Service Platform. These programmes will target advanced digital skills development to address the lack of highly specialised digital skills in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Solutions that helps to develop the critical skills of the 21st century to the new generation such as the 4Cs (Critical Thinking, Creativity, Communication and Collaboration) and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths). As well as Education-life integration solutions that helps to ingrain learning into people’s everyday lives.

Through Astropreneurs Accelerator, you can use this mentorship and the “space economy network” of investors, industry and supporting agencies to scale your business and better capitalize target markets and global opportunities.

This non-dilutive startup accelerator program identifies innovative soybean value chain-based product solutions and supports the most promising ones with business coaching and entrepreneurial networking.

With a budget of 26 million euros, this call aims to promote the socio-economic development of ACP countries, by boosting the cultural and creative sector as a whole. Its priorities are increasing economic revenues from the creative sector, creating jobs linked to the cultural sector and improving accessibility, recognition and promotion of artists and their works at national, regional and international level.

The programme is a 13 week intensive startup accelerator for those who work on disruptive solutions within oil and gas, renewables, new business models and digitalisation.

Each year, the Paris Peace Forum launches a Call for Projects to select concrete governance solutions which take on global challenges related to the 6 themes comprising the focus of the annual event.

The Prize winner and finalists exemplify qualities to be emulated. They apply big ideas to critical urban problems, demonstrate life-changing impact on people’s lives and on the communities they live in, and have ripple effects on institutions, the wider city and other cities.

The IWRM approach(es) should be implemented and tested by involving all the potential stakeholders in experimental or demonstration sites representative of Mediterranean water conditions in terms of water scarcity, water accounting, water use efficiency, use of non-conventional irrigation waters (saline and waste), changing climatic and demographic conditions, crop diversification, conflicting use of available waters, as well as needs for improved governance by different authorities (including transboundary aspects), and other relevant factors.

GroFin focus on Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs) that are grossly underserved by other funds or financiers. Delivers a unique integrated solution for patient risk capital and end-to-end business support to start-up and growing businesses at the SME base.

UNICEF invites expressions of interest to receive funding from the UNICEF Innovation Fund (IF). The Fund provides investment-style funding for early-stage, open source technology solutions that address the most pressing challenges faced by children and young people.

This category caters for finding sustainable, innovative, and smart projects for the development of smart buildings in order to limit environmental impact, increase human well-being and contribute to the achievement of sustainable development goals.

Devise in-facility pilot demonstrators that deliver innovative AI-based solutions in a health and care setting such as a hospital, primary care facility or care home. Pilots should enable or support clinical, diagnosis and treatment, etc. carried out with clinical outcomes comparable to human delivered procedures and with comparable results.

The challenge is to fully exploit the potential of AI in the economy and society. Building notably on Europe's Scientific and Technology strengths in the field, the supported activities should reinforce industrial competitiveness across all sectors including for SMEs and non-tech industries and help address societal challenges.

Proposals should build on results of projects and the state of the art in ICT for early risk prediction and introduce innovative ICT solutions through data, data analytics, advanced or novel digital technologies, services, products, organisational changes, and citizens data ownership, that lead to more effective health and care systems.

Proposals will develop next generation renewable fuels for energy and transport, which improve substantially (beyond the state-of-the-art), the performance regarding energy efficiency as well as cost of the conversion of direct renewable energy (e.g., sunlight) or renewable electricity and /or heat to liquid or gaseous renewable fuels from CO2.

On a more advanced level, in order to provide connectivity across the various components of the multimodal transport system, enable innovation and emergence of new business models, we need solutions for safe and secure collection, storage and sharing of transport data (both operational and research) across various actors and different transport modes.

BASF is looking to partner up with companies to answer today's trends and evolutions. Together with BASF, create and customize innovative solutions to meet the needs of the currents markets.

Our interests are as diverse as your ideas: Internet, Mobile, FinTech, SaaS, E-Commerce, Local, Media, Marketing, Ad Tech, Education, Fashion Tech, Real Estate, Logistics and many more. We are looking to you to wow us with anything Internet and software-related that you think is cool.

The 2020 Disney Accelerator is open to growth-stage companies with a vision for making a significant impact on the future of technology and entertainment. The Disney Accelerator provides participating companies with investment capital, access to co-working space at Disney’s creative campus in Glendale and unparalleled mentorship and support from top Disney executives. This year, the team is looking to explore specific technologies including: artificial intelligence, augmented reality, e-commerce, data analytics, frontier tech, robotics and more.

WorldStartup main drive is to accelerate growth of ventures who focus on future solutions with positive impact. Increased innovation in sectors aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals is key to economic growth. These goals are already reshaping global markets and capital flows, bringing impact businesses to the spotlight and making them stand out in the competition.

Up to 5 start-ups per cohort will have the opportunity to benefit from Purina’s deep petcare expertise, R&D and commercial networks and supported by a carefully selected multidisciplinary team to help you to prove your concept within 6 months, in the market.

The Moove Lab launches its call for projects in order to integrate its 6th promotion and make its entrance to Station F, the largest campus of startups in the world next May.

Your start-up develops a solution in the field of big data, AI, machine learning, cybersecurity, blockchain, IoT or other? Do not hesitate to take part in this challenge to partner up with Elia Group and to better secure the energy transition!

HYPE Sports Innovation is looking for sports innovation companies with the highest potential for growth and return on investment. Selected startups cover a wide range of sectors, product stages and sizes. Whilst significant revenue is a strong validation of your business model, we still value other metrics to assess your growth potential.

The global objective of this call for proposals is to support civil society organisations as actors of governance in their own right by strengthening their capacity to participate effectively in policy formulation and in the monitoring of policy implementation processes in order to contribute to the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and ensure no-one is left behind.

We are looking for startups with an MVP or a market-proven solution to the challenges of Industry 4.0 and interested in establishing in the UAE and access the MENA market.

European Data Incubator is looking for 35 promising Big Data startups and SMEs to take part in their next round of incubation. Each selected startup can received up to €100,000 equity-free funding.

Proposals must focus on only one of the three objectives listed below, clearly specifying which one, and must address at least two different languages spoken in the Member States and/or EEA countries participating in the CEF Telecom programme.

The WIPO GREEN Acceleration Project 2019-2020 in Latin America identified over 100 technologies and needs in the field of climate smart agriculture. Here we highlight 18 collaboration opportunities for green technology providers, on the topics of energy, water, farming and forestry, and plant breeding.

The 2020 CEF Telecom Blockchain call makes an indicative €3 million of funding available for proposals in this area.

Starta Global Residency is a 6-months program for international startups entering USA market for global expansion.

Kaspersky is looking for the most advanced projects working at the edge of cybersecurity for Gaming.

Historically, the management team has experience mentoring a wide variety of startup business models, and our mentor and investor networks cover most types of business models and products. So far, we’ve invested in 10+ verticals including edtech, SaaS, logistics, travel tech, agtech and fintech across B2B, B2G and B2B2C.

Innovation is at the core of the challenge to make urban air mobility not only safe, secure, quiet and green but also more accessible, faster, affordable, inclusive and publicly accepted. Research activities are not only aeronautical but also cross-disciplinary to enable aerial traffic in the urban environment.

This category caters for solutions addressing climate change, pollution reduction, and the protection of a thriving biodiversity including long-term governance mechanics, stakeholder participation and circular economy.

The call is dedicated to all the startups and businesses - made up of individuals or teams - who want to share their innovative projects or ideas. Participants will have the opportunity of introducing their projects in front of a large audience, composed by the biggest players within the field, experts and investors.

The Western Union Accelerator Powered by Techstars will support entrepreneurs in developing innovative solutions to some of the industry’s biggest challenges including machine learning, artificial intelligence, crypto and blockchain technologies, analytics and omni-channel platforms, while leveraging the creative and agile thinking of fintech’s brightest minds.

On top of investing capital, we offer over a decade of first-hand experience in product development, with a network that reaches deep into Silicon Valley and China's Greater Bay area.

The solutions developed in the project should provide an appropriate data-centre electricity supply architecture based on fuel cells modules to provide a 99.999% availability to the data-centre.

Partnered with Cargill and Ecolab, the program is looking for the best entrepreneurs across the entire food value chain, from AgTech, manufacturing and supply chains, to food safety, waste reduction and traceability.

Outlier Ventures is particularly interested in projects that fit our vision of the future web: The Convergence Stack. Spanning hardware, software, networking and applications, the stack underpins a private, secure, and accessible digital infrastructure.

The 2020 edition of the FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards marks 15 years of collaboration between the Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation on awards that have had a substantial impact on the way financial and non-financial organisations approach sustainable investment.

The eFounders Fellowship program provides first-hand exposure to eCommerce and digital innovations, access to business leaders across Alibaba and China, as well as an opportunity to connect with like-minded, leading entrepreneurs in your region. The fellowship is a community of passionate and successful "Champions for the New Economy" looking to inspire and create a more inclusive development model for all.

ScaleUp helps startups grow across the globe with an intensive Microsoft-led program in five global offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, Sydney, and Tel Aviv.

Hub71 is creating the optimal environment for transformative tech companies looking to maximize success, produce outstanding tech innovations and scale globally. Hub71 is a flagship initiative of the AED 50 billion (USD 13.61 billion) economic accelerator program, Ghadan 21, which means “tomorrow” in Arabic.