MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
Usually opens in September and October and November
Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.
Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.
US$100,000 grand prize plus smaller Pitch and Accelerate awards, all equity-free
MIT Sloan / MIT
private · regional
Deadline: annual_call — Three-stage competition through the academic year: Pitch in the autumn, Accelerate in the winter, Launch final in the spring
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Stage: idea, pre_seed
- Locally registered entity required
Team must include a current MIT student
Source. https://mit100k.org/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked