MIT has several entrepreneurship competitions throughout the year.

 

The Elevator Pitch Contest (EPC) is about idea generation, connecting with others who have similar interests, and learning how to present your pitch to a potential investor in a moment’s notice. 60 seconds for a chance to win $5,000! More info >>

 

The MIT $100K ACCELERATE Contest was launched in 2012 to replace the Executive Summary Contest. It’s all about execution, and we’ll be helping entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality. Up to 25 teams with the most potential will be selected by the judges to go through to the ACCELERATE phase during IAP. These teams will receive $1,000 each to spend on their ideas, and we’ll pair them up with rockstar mentors and designers. We’ll also help them secure work space. More info >>

 

The MIT Business Plan Contest is the flagship contest of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, with a grand prize of $100,000. The first content was held in the spring of 1990. More info >>

 

The MIT Creative Arts Competition, started in 2013 by Arts at MIT, is a $10,000 prize, awarded every year at the MIT $100K Launch Contest, for the innovative use of the arts as a core component of a business plan. Any $100K Launch team becomes eligible by applying separately to the Creative Arts Competition. More info >>

 

Run by the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. Students from across the globe are invited to submit 60-second video clips of their elevator pitch over YouTube. They are then asked to promote these videos to solicit as many “likes” on YouTube and Facebook as possible. The finalists are judged by an elite panel of entrepreneurs. More info >>

 

The MIT Clean Energy Prize is a $200,000 grand prize contest sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and NSTAR. Our mission is to be the catalyst for a unified competition to help develop a new generation of energy entrepreneurs and great new companies. This will be achieved by working to stimulate productive relationships between academic, community, industry, and government organizations with strong interests in meeting the world’s energy challenge through innovation and entrepreneurship. More info >>

 

MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, a program of the Public Service Center, is an annual invention and entrepreneurship competition that awards up to $10,000 per team for innovative service projects that positively impact underserved communities. Through IDEAS - which stands for Innovation, Development, Enterprise, Action, and Service - teams of MIT students and their collaborators work with a community partner to design and implement innovative projects that improve the quality of life in communities around the world. Since its founding in 2001, IDEAS has awarded over $400,000 to more than 75 teams to make their ideas a reality. More info >>

 

MIT-CHIEF (MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum) presents to you the MIT-CHIEF "Pitch to China" Business Plan Contest, striving to foster connections of new technologies and business models with investment funding and execution experience from China and outside. We are dedicated to facilitating overseas entrepreneurs with resources within China and helping them both enter the Chinese market as well as bring about positive change for both China and the world as a whole. A total of over $20,000 in cash prizes will be distributed to the winners of the contest at the finale in November. More info >>