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Global Impact
Challenges

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

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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.

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

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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.

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