Become a Partner

What it means to partner with XPRIZE

Our partners are CHANGEMAKERS. They donate their time and resources, and they’re not afraid of taking risks to create unprecedented impact. They share our belief that we can create a better future for humanity and the planet. Our partners are the individuals, corporations and institutions who provide the time, in-kind support and human capital that allow us to take on the world’s toughest challenges.

Featured Partners

U.S. Fire Administration

U.S. Fire Administration

Partner of XPRIZE Wildfire, XPRIZE Biodiversity + Conservation

Partner Benefits

Our partners are a core part of our community. As such, XPRIZE honors them in many ways. Benefits for partners include: 

  • Exclusive invitations to our annual Visioneering event
  • Exposure to new ideas and cutting-edge technologies
  • Opportunities to collaborate with industry leaders and other stakeholders
  • Access to semifinal and final prize events
  • Opportunities to serve as a brain-trust member and provide expertise
  • Increased visibility and brand awareness 
  • Quarterly partner-exclusive communications

WHAT XPRIZE PARTNERS DO



Develop New Prizes

XPRIZE works with partners who share our focus area priorities and aspire to solve the same global challenges. Partners can scale their organization’s impact by working with XPRIZE to design, develop and fund new moonshot competition prize ideas.

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Islands like Barbados are highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change. Our partnership with XPRIZE is part of Barbados’ broader effort to invest in innovative solutions and initiatives that will catalyze a global shift towards more just and sustainable economies.

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Mia Mottley
Prime Minister of Barbados, Partnering with XPRIZE to support the launch of XPRIZE Coral Restoration

Support Prize Operations

Help execute XPRIZE competitions. For example:
  • Provide testing services or facilities
  • Host prize events such as launch celebrations, award announcements, and judges or teams summits
  • Donate travel or accommodations
  • Recruit teams through accelerators and incubators, industry conferences, hackathons, media promotion or deploying regional ambassadors
  • Amplify awareness of competitions through social media promotion, media coverage, documentary or other storytelling tactics
  • Provide expertise and serve as Prize judges, advisory board members or subject-matter experts
  • Conduct research and co-author publications with XPRIZE


    • Support Competing Teams

    Provide valuable in-kind resources, services and other support to teams. Partners may:
  • Donate software solutions
  • Provide in-kind prototyping services
  • Mentor or coach team members
  • Create tech accelerator programs to recruit and strengthen teams
  • Offer legal, insurance, funding or investment guidance
  • Grant access to tech demonstration or deployment space
  • Share data libraries, compute power or other resources with teams


    • Scale Prize Impact

    Amplify the impact of XPRIZE competitions:
  • Support alumni teams
  • Collaborate with XPRIZE on post-prize impact initiatives
  • Co-publish industry research and Impact reporting
  • Fund Impact


    • XPRIZE Academic Partner Network

  • Translate expertise into practical applications that solve grand challenges
  • Build student-faculty teams
  • Develop engaging prize-based curricula
  • Jointly conduct and publish research based on cutting-edge prize science

    • Become a Partner

    Fill out the form to connect with our partnerships team.