Tokyo Global Innovation Challenge (TGIC) 2025 (¥1,000,000 prize) – YOA

Deadline: November 15, 2025

Applications are open for the Tokyo Global Innovation Challenge (TGIC) 2025. This contest is the place curiosity meets the facility of entrepreneurship—a platform to unleash your expertise and create sport-altering enterprise fashions that matter.

Go Beyond Boundaries—Break by way of your limits, transcend disciplines, and cross borders. Ready to tackle any problem that may change the world?

Prizes

• The successful workforce will obtain prize (whole quantity of prize is ¥1,000,000. Various awards are additionally ready for all finalist groups.

Eligibility

• Teams consisting of three to six members who’re undergraduate or graduate college students (together with worldwide college students) from universities in Japan or overseas.
• Team may be shaped as:
  • Mixed worldwide and Japanese members
  • Japanese-only
  • International-only
• Business concept should be scholar-led. (Ideas based mostly on school-led analysis or initiatives already being carried out by an integrated firm you’ve established is not going to be eligible for choice.)
• Participants should be capable of current their pitch in English. (The symposium and this contest will probably be carried out solely in English.)

Evaluation Criteria

• Passion & Leadership: Does the applicant display enthusiasm and dedication to their plan?
• Originality: Does the plan function distinctive views or improvements that tackle new wants?
• Market Competitiveness: Does the plan differentiate itself from opponents and present a aggressive edge out there?
• Growth Potential: Are there future prospects for the enterprise and market, with potential for home and worldwide progress?
• Profitability: Is the enterprise mannequin and income plan possible and effectively-structured?
• Feasibility: Is there a strong basis for advancing the enterprise and proof of market acceptance?

Application

Submit it with a pitch video of as much as 5 minutes. Make certain to add your pitch video to a cloud storage platform like Google Drive and embody the URL within the type.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to TGIC.