Startup Yale
Yale University — Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY)COMPETITIONUNIVERSITYEquity-Free
Students only
Amount
$50,000
Deadline
Rolling
Bootstrap Score
6/10
Complexity
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About This Opportunity
Startup Yale, hosted by the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY), is Yale's biggest entrepreneurship event and awards eight prizes totaling more than $200,000. The largest single award is the Planetary Solutions Prize at $50,000, with several additional $25,000 prizes. Prizes support Yale student-led ventures, with a few categories open to community-led projects. (The earlier Y50K and Thorne Prize have been replaced by this current prize lineup.)
Geographic Coverage
CT
Links & Resources
Funder Websitehttps://startup.yale.edu/
Source & freshness
Last verified: 7/14/2026
Primary source: Official source page
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