Competitors

The Hult Prize is where students can turn ideas into action. Each year, thousands of young people from around the world team up to launch startups that tackle the world’s toughest challenges, with $1 million in seed funding on the line. Some teams come in with existing early stage businesses and polished pitch decks. Others start from scratch with a curiosity about entrepreneurship and a problem they want to solve. All are welcome. What matters is what you build along the way.

Why Hult Prize?

Try launching a real startup

We are a hands-on, low risk opportunity to try being a founder

Pitch for $1M

Compete for seed funding and a global stage to grow your idea

Get support and mentoring

Get tools, perks, and mentorship from top partners and experts

Discover your strengths

Learn who you are as a builder, leader, and teammate

Join our global community

Connect with students from around the world and have fun doing it

Opportunities to enter the competition

There’s more than one way to join the Hult Prize. Most students enter through a local competition hosted by their university. When no local competition is available, teams can enter through our online Open Application. However you enter, you’ll gain access to tools, mentorship, and a global network to help you launch your social enterprise.

Hult Prize is not merely a business competition, it is a way of establishing your own entrepreneurship and taking on responsibilities towards the world, which I believe is exactly what we in the 21st century need.

Kuriko Kawate, Hokkaido University

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