Startup Yale’s prizes provide funding for student ventures and are designed to generate world-changing ideas about health, education, technology, equality, and more.
The Creative Entrepreneurship Prize at StartUp Yale is a $25,000 award supporting student-led ventures and projects that advance innovation in the creative economy. The prize champions artists, producers, and scholars who transform cultural ideas into sustainable infrastructure—ventures that generate both social impact and economic value through creativity.
The Future of Health Innovation Prize at StartUp Yale is a $25,000 award supporting early-stage, student-driven ventures with transformative potential to address urgent global health challenges.
The Manolo Sanchez Prize will award $25,000 to a for-profit, nonprofit, or community-led initiative that aims to create and/or improve access to financial services for individuals in *underserved communities.
The Miller Prize awards a $25,000 cash prize to a student-led venture working on innovative high-growth tech or tech-enabled solutions with a definable go-to-market strategy for for-profit ventures.
The New Haven Civic Innovation Prize awards up to $25,000 to the best student- or community-led venture or project focused on benefiting the City of New Haven.
The Planetary Solutions Prize (formerly the Sustainable Venture Prize) awards $50,000 to promising student business ventures that advance environmental sustainability. In addition to the potential prize money, the competition provides opportunities for mentorship, feedback, and networking.
The Rothberg Catalyzer Prize awards $25,000 to a promising student-led venture developing a solution that has both hardware and software components. The prize is sector-agnostic and welcomes novel innovations across disciplines, including healthcare, fashion, drones, AI, etc. In addition to the prize money, the competition provides valuable opportunities for mentorship, feedback, and networking.
The Yale Innovators Prize is a $25,000 cash prize awarded to the for-profit or non-profit venture/project that has the potential to produce the most creative or impactful solution to real-world problems that doesn’t qualify for any other Startup Yale prize.
