XPRIZE is a masterstroke, a brilliant idea. What XPRIZE could very well do is to jump-start a part of space exploration that is based on the active participation of regular Americans.
Tom Hanks
Actor, Director and Producer
Quantum for Real-World Impact
XPRIZE Quantum Applications is a 3-year, $5M global competition designed to generate quantum computing (QC) algorithms that can be put into practice to help solve real-world challenges.
Revolutionizing Desalination for Global Water Use
XPRIZE Water Scarcity is a $119 million, 5-year global competition designed to drive widespread access to clean water by creating reliable, sustainable, and affordable seawater desalination systems.
Healthy aging made possible
XPRIZE Healthspan is a 7-year, $101 million global competition to revolutionize the way we approach human aging.
END DESTRUCTIVE WILDFIRES
XPRIZE Wildfire is a 4-year, $11 million competition incentivizing the innovation of firefighting technologies that will end destructive wildfires so that humanity and beneficial wildfire can safely co-exist. The prize aims to transform current wildfire management approaches through the development of new technologies that can rapidly and accurately detect, characterize, and respond to wildfires before they become destructive.
Tackling Humanity's Greatest Threat
XPRIZE Carbon Removal aimed to tackle the biggest threat facing humanity - climate change. It took place over the course of four years, launching on Earth Day 2021 and concluding during Earth Week 2025.
The grand prize winner and runner-up teams, representing solutions across four countries, each successfully removed more than 1,000 net tonnes of CO2 in the final year of the competition, meeting XPRIZE’s bold demonstration requirements, the first step towards scaling sustainably to remove billions of tonnes globally.
Discover. Understand. Preserve.
The $10M XPRIZE Rainforest is a five-year competition to enhance our understanding of the rainforest ecosystem.