Deadline: 30 June 2025
The world needs your bold ideas. If you’re building something game-changing, this is your moment – and they want to help. Apply now for the Entrepreneurship World Cup!
The Entrepreneurship World Cup is one of the largest and most diverse pitch competitions and support programs of its kind. Every year, tens of thousands of entrepreneurs from 200 countries compete for a share of US$1 million dollars in cash prizes and millions more worth of investment, support and publicity and a global finals event attended by leading investors.
The Entrepreneurship World Cup is co-hosted by the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) and Monsha’at, the Small and Medium Enterprises General Authority in Saudi Arabia, with support from more than 50 strategic partners around the world.
The competition was conceived by the Misk Global Forum in 2019 and developed in conjunction with GEN.
The Entrepreneurship World Cup is more than just a pitch competition. It gives everyone who enters access to the knowledge, networks and for some, the capital they need to start and scale a company.
Funding Information
- Global Finals Cash Prizes: Early Stage
- The top five (5) Early Stage finalists receive the following cash prizes.
- Early Stage Champion: $250,000
- 2nd Place: $200,000
- 3rd Place: $150,000
- 4th Place: $100,000
- 5th Place: $50,000
- The top five (5) Early Stage finalists receive the following cash prizes.
- Global Finals Cash Prizes: Growth Stage
- The top two (2) Growth Stage finalists receive the following cash prizes.
- Growth Stage Champion: $175,000
- 2nd Place: $100,000
- The top two (2) Growth Stage finalists receive the following cash prizes.
- Global Finals Cash Prizes: Sector-Specific
- New to the Entrepreneurship World Cup in 2025 is a focus on space tech and startups in the space sector. Finalists from all three stages – Idea, Early and Growth – in the categories below will compete for the following cash prizes.
- SpaceTech for Mining: $100,000
- SpaceTech for Sports Analytics: $100,000
- SpaceTech for Health Monitoring: $100,000
- SpaceTech for Agriculture + Resource Management: $100,000
- New to the Entrepreneurship World Cup in 2025 is a focus on space tech and startups in the space sector. Finalists from all three stages – Idea, Early and Growth – in the categories below will compete for the following cash prizes.
- Global Finals Cash Prizes: Idea Stage
- The top two (2) Idea Stage finalists receive the following cash prizes.
- Idea Stage Champion: $50,000
- 2nd Place: $25,000
- The top two (2) Idea Stage finalists receive the following cash prizes.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any startup from around the world is welcome to apply and become an Applicant.
- Applicant startups must be legally registered or planning to register in their country of residence.
- Applicant startups must be ten years or less old by the date of the Global Finals. Entity age is set by the date of company registration and not idea conception.
- EWC Global Winners who won cash prizes during previous editions of the EWC Global Finals (2019-2024) are eligible to participate again in 2025 with certain candidacy considerations for future would-be prizes:
- EWC Applicants can only be eligible for different prize categories than the prize they earned during previous participation in the competition.
- Only EWC Growth Stage winners are ineligible to participate as applicant candidates for EWC 2025.
- Any other winners and/or category winners are eligible and encouraged to apply, but cannot compete for the same placement.
- EWC Applicants can only be eligible for different prize categories than the prize they earned during previous participation in the competition.
- Employees of the organizers, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotional agencies, suppliers and immediate family members are not eligible to participate in the competition.
For more information, visit Global Entrepreneurship Network.
