Button TextButton Text

Global Impact
Challenges

Discovering and supporting innovators to tackle the world's biggest challenges through impact-based startup competitions.

View Challenges

We run the world’s most exciting and credible impact technology challenges in established and emerging innovation hubs around the world.


Global Impact Challenges are targeted, impact-based startup competitions hosted by Singularity. Since 2010, we've partnered with organizations all over the world to create competitions that identify the most innovative and promising solutions to specific Global Grand Challenges, which are then invited to join us in Silicon Valley to learn how to incorporate Singularity’s core concepts into scalable business models, before showcasing these exponential solutions to our global network of innovators, investors, experts, and impact partners.

The prize: what are the
Global Impact Awards?

The top finalists from each Global Impact Challenge will receive a full sponsorship to attend the Global Impact Awards held in Silicon Valley. This intensive 4-day bootcamp is designed to accelerate founders' entrepreneurial journey by transforming their mindset and equipping them with the tools needed for success. Participants will be immersed in the heart of technological innovation, gaining exposure to the latest advancements and cutting-edge ideas. They will engage in workshops, receive mentorship from industry leaders, refine their business ideas, develop robust business models, and perfect their pitches.The event will culminate in a pitch and awards ceremony with an in-person audience of our most influential global community members, alumni and experts, as well as a virtual audience of global partners, alumni, investors, and industry.
DAY 1

Exponential Tech, Ideation, Market Validation

- Introduction and Bootcamp Overview
- Exponential Technologies & Abundance Mindset
- Ideation and Disruptive Thinking Workshops
- Market Research and Validation Strategies
- Mentor Matching and Feedback Loops
DAY 2

Business Model + Strategy Development

- Becoming AI-First: Strategies for Transforming Your Business with AI
- Building a Winning Business Model and GTM Strategy
- Incorporating Social Impact and NGO Collaborations into Business Models
- Product Development and Prototyping Techniques
- Personalized Mentor Sessions
DAY 3

Pitch Preparation + Strategic Networking

- Strategic Fundraising & Investor Relations
- Crafting Compelling Pitch Decks and Storytelling
- Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Entrepreneurs
- Final Pitch Rehearsals with Expert Feedback
- Networking and Strategic Peer Review
DAY 4

Demo Day + Award Ceremony

- Demo Day Presentations
- Startup Presentations + Live Q&A with Judges
- Award Ceremony for Best Startups
- Networking Reception

Challenges

What makes an idea GIC material?

Leverages Exponential Technology

There are many amazing ideas out there but we are specifically looking for ideas that leverage exponential technology to solve a challenge at hand.

Solution to a Global Grand Challenge

Global Grand Challenges, or GGC's, are huge existential problems in the world. Each challenge focuses on a specific GGC so make sure your idea or solution solves for that!  

Registered Startup or Nonprofit

Applicants should be founders of a fully established entity at any stage, including idea, working prototype, minimum viable product, pilot, or traction.

Ray Kurzweil did the math and found that we’re going to experience twenty thousand years of technological change over the next one hundred years. Essentially, we’re going from the birth of agriculture to the birth of the internet twice in the next century. This means paradigm-shifting, game-changing, nothing-is-ever-the-same-again breakthroughs… happening all the time.

Peter Diamandis

Creating impact at exponential scale since 2010

Total number of GIC's
119
Total GIC Winners
162
First Global Impact Challenge
2010

Previous GIC Partners

Become a Sponsor
Singularity uses F6S to receive and review GIC applications. F6S members can connect with funding and grants, post or apply for jobs, get free founder deals and apply to startup programs.

Frequently asked questions

Do ideas have to be at a certain stage to be submitted?
Who owns the intellectual property resulting from a GIC?
I'm a Portfolio Company trying to get in touch with Singularity Ventures. Who should I reach out to?
What is the GIC review process?