INSPIRING BREAKTHROUGHS FOR HUMANITY
XPRIZE leverages the power of competition to propel innovation and accelerate a more hopeful future. It offers incentives for radical breakthroughs on initiatives that benefit humanity.
The first XPRIZE, the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight, spurred the commercial spaceflight industry. It inspired the launch of pioneering companies and household names such as Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin and SpaceX. Since then XPRIZE has launched over $140 million in prize purses, including the $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE, the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, and the $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup XPRIZE.
Each of its prizes has created industry-changing technologies that bring humanity closer to a better, safer, more sustainable world.