5th Annual Hult Prize Competition

The Hult Prize Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to launching the world’s next wave of social entrepreneurs. It encourages the world’s brightest business minds to compete in teams to solve the planet’s biggest challenges with innovative ideas for sustainable start-up enterprises. Annual Hult Prize winners can make their ideas reality with the help of USD1 million in seed funding.

Moving forward with the 5th annual Hult Prize, thousands of university students worldwide will team up to create start-ups aimed at solving an issue faced by billions in need. More than 10,000 applicants will begin the journey, and only 300 start-ups from around the world will move on to pitch their start-up ideas at one of six global locations, including: Boston, San Francisco, London, Dubai, Shanghai and Sao Paulo. Form a team of 4-5 students and submit an application

Overview Details:

  1. President’s Challenge: Solving Non-Communicable Disease in the Urban Slum
  2. Timeline available here, including details re: preliminary regional competition March 7 + 8, final round September 2014
  3.  Cash prize: $1,000,000 USD  in start-up funding
  4. Deadline December 17, 11:59pm EST
  5. Website: http://www.hultprize.org/en/