This year the Yale Center for Business & the Environment, InnovateHealth Yale and the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale will each award $25,000 prizes for promising new ventures. Deadline for applications is March 8.
Although the awards are not restricted to to Yale students and affiliates, teams must include at least one currently enrolled Yale student in a leadership position to be eligible for any of the four prizes.
These include:
•  The Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize This awards $25,000 to a promising student venture that advances environmental sustainability. In addition to the potential prize money, the competition provides opportunities for mentorship, feedback, and networking.
• The Thome Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education The $25,000 prize will be awarded in the spring of each year to support a student or group of students beginning or continuing to develop a social enterprise or innovation focused on these two areas.
• The $25,000 Miller Prize supports students working on innovative tech or tech-enabled solutions. The competition provides feedback from professional judges, extensive mentoring from Tsai CITY mentors, and opportunities for participants to meet and pitch their ideas to venture capitalists and industry leaders.
• Also, the Rothberg Catalyzer Prize @ Yale  is a $15,000 cash prize awarded to the best student-led venture or project focused on developing an innovative hardware and/or artificial-intelligence solution to a medical challenge.
Finalists will be notified shortly after the March 8 deadline, and those selected will pitch live for a panel of judges at the StartUp Yale conference scheduled for April 5.
