Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC) 2025 (up to $1.5 million in prizes) – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications are invited for the Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC) 2025. The Entrepreneurship World Cup is likely one of the largest and most various pitch competitions and help packages of its type. Every yr, tens of hundreds of entrepreneurs from 200 international locations compete for US$1 million {dollars} in money prizes and hundreds of thousands extra value of funding, help and publicity by means of nationwide pitch competitions, bootcamps and a worldwide finals occasion attended by main buyers.

However, the Entrepreneurship World Cup is greater than only a pitch competitors. Co-hosted by Monsha’at and the Global Entrepreneurship Network with help from greater than 100 companions world-vast, the competitors connects candidates in any respect ranges – from concept stage by means of development stage – with world-class connections, sources and mentorship alternatives to improve their abilities and take their ventures to the following degree, no matter whether or not or not they prime the rostrum.

Prizes

The Entrepreneurship World Cup is all about all the expertise – connections, sources, mentorship and extra. But on prime of that, they’ve acquired a large number of impactful prizes – USD $1.5 million (5,625,000 SAR) in money and/or funding complete for the worldwide winners plus in-kind help for the highest 100 international finalists. 

Global Finals Cash Prizes: Early Stage: The prime 5 (5) Early Stage finalists obtain the next money prizes.

• Early Stage Champion: $250,000
• 2nd Place: $200,000
• third Place: $150,000
• 4th Place: $100,000
• fifth Place: $50,000

Global Finals Cash Prizes: Growth Stage – The prime two (2) Growth Stage finalists obtain the next money prizes.

• Growth Stage Champion: $175,000
• 2nd Place: $100,000

Global Finals Cash Prizes: Sector-Specific – New to the Entrepreneurship World Cup in 2025 is a concentrate on house tech and startups in the house sector. Finalists from all three levels – Idea, Early and Growth – in the classes beneath will compete for the next money prizes.

• SpaceTech for Mining: $100,000: Space mining is the method of extracting sources from asteroids and different celestial objects in house. It includes designing and deploying superior applied sciences to scout for sources and extract them.
• SpaceTech for Sports Analytics: $100,000: The integration of machine studying and AI into sports activities analytics has elevated the precision of predictions and insights which are re-shaping athletics in any respect ranges. New house applied sciences have the potential to disrupt the analysis of participant efficiency, deconstruct group methods, and leverage historic information to higher information choice-making and predict outcomes.
• SpaceTech for Health Monitoring: $100,000: Wearable gadgets and screens have change into frequent instruments for analysis on human well being, however whereas they’re handy, they are often uncomfortable and require customers to keep in mind to put on them. New applied sciences are being developed to monitor very important indicators in a approach that’s so unobtrusive that it’s straightforward to overlook monitoring is happening.
• SpaceTech for Agriculture + Resource Management: $100,000: While house expertise is reworking how we do issues on Earth, it’s maybe in agriculture and useful resource administration that the impression is being felt notably strongly and has the potential to rework how the sector operates by 2030.

Global Finals Cash Prizes: Idea Stage – The prime two (2) Idea Stage finalists obtain the next money prizes.

• Idea Stage Champion: $50,000
• 2nd Place: $25,000

Eligibility

• Any startup from around the globe is welcome to apply and change into an Applicant.
• Applicant startups should be legally registered or planning to register in their nation of residence.
• Applicant startups should be ten years or much less outdated by the date of the Global Finals. Entity age is ready by the date of firm registration and never concept conception.
• EWC Global Winners who gained money prizes throughout earlier editions of the EWC Global Finals (2019-2024) are eligible to take part once more in 2025 with sure candidacy issues for future would-be prizes:
  • EWC Applicants can solely be eligible for various prize classes than the prize they earned throughout earlier participation in the competitors.
    • Only EWC Growth Stage winners are ineligible to take part as applicant candidates for EWC 2025.
    • Any different winners and/or class winners are eligible and inspired to apply, however can’t compete for a similar placement.
    • To encourage equity in competitors, there isn’t a quick-observe for previous winners to compete in the Global Finals, and all candidates will go by means of the identical judging course of.
      • For instance: Entrant A wins Idea Stage prize in 2021. If Applicant A reapplies, they may solely be thought-about for Early Stage or Growth Stage prize classes.  
• Employees of the organizers, its associates, subsidiaries, promoting, promotional businesses, suppliers and instant relations will not be eligible to take part in the competitors.

Application

Startups reply the worldwide name for participation and submit purposes to compete in EWC 2025 earlier than June 30, 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Entrepreneurship World Cup.