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The 2026 Digital Incubator kicked off with our first Pitch Monday, and now teams are moving through expert-led curriculu...
06/11/2026

The 2026 Digital Incubator kicked off with our first Pitch Monday, and now teams are moving through expert-led curriculum. Our first week is about team and legal foundations.

Each startup needs to lay a groundwork of basic legal structures to protect their enterprises as they grow.

Teams must ask themselves, “Do we have the right team dynamics, and the right legal setup, to build with confidence?”

Yesterday, our teams learned about the importance of cofounder agreements, incorporation, and equity structures from returning legal expert Aaron Bains, one of Canada’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers and Partner at Aird & Berlis LLP.

Swipe through this edition of the Hult Prize Playbook to learn more about cofounders agreements and how to create one for your enterprise!

We began with 18,000 startup ideas. From Qualifiers, through Nationals, to the start of the Digital Incubator, we’ve nar...
06/09/2026

We began with 18,000 startup ideas. From Qualifiers, through Nationals, to the start of the Digital Incubator, we’ve narrowed that number down to 90.

Representing about 50 countries across seven regions, our remaining competitors will spend the next five weeks working with experts and mentors to evolve their pitches, measure their impact, refine their products and validate their go-to-market strategies.

Coming together for the 2026 cohort are our Nationals winners, our three fast track teams, and teams chosen by our Selection Committee through our rigorous online review process.

After the first successful Pitch Monday of the Digital Incubator, we'd like to wish the best of luck to all our startups!

Stay updated about our teams and their performances through this phase to see who will advance to the Global Accelerator in the UK 🔔

06/07/2026

It’s time to officially close out the Hult Prize 2026 Nationals!

Thank you to our global community of hosts, organizers and volunteers for making this year’s Hult Prize Nationals stage such a success! Through your efforts, student entrepreneurs had a platform to amplify their social impact missions and were able to pitch their ideas at 40+ in-person events around the globe.

Congratulations once again to every competitor who pitched during all tracks of the Nationals stage. If you didn’t move forward this round, please keep building and evolving. Hult Prize is just the beginning of your journey. The world needs your optimism, your ideas and your fresh perspective more than ever!

Let’s pass the torch to the 2026 Digital Incubator cohort as they compete for their slot in the Global Accelerator 🔥

06/06/2026

She may not have won the million, but an invitation to speak at Davos is priceless 🌐

As we enter the final stages of the 2026 competition, the story of CEO, Diana Virgovicova, is a good reminder that there are many paths to success.

Xatoms pitched at the 2024 Hult Prize Global Finals in London. Though the team made a bold impression on stage, validating their water-purifying material by sipping a glass filled from the River Thames, the team left without the $1M USD in seed-funding.

What they gained instead was even more motivation to prove themselves.

Since then, Xatoms has made North America’s 2025 Forbes Under 30 list, raised a $3 million pre-seed round, launched three pilot projects, and Diana has spoken at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Xatoms also became the only Canadian company selected in this year’s UpLink cohort, the World Economic Forum’s early-stage innovation engine, securing three years of support.

In this episode of, “I Didn’t Win the Million,” hear from Diana Virgovicova about her journey from Slovakia to the global stage, her mission to make safe drinking water accessible to all, and how falling short at the Global Finals helped drive Xatoms to the forefront of clean technology🚰

Learn more at https://www.xatoms.com/.

We began with 18,000 startup ideas. From Qualifiers, through Nationals, to the eve of the Digital Incubator, we’ve narro...
06/05/2026

We began with 18,000 startup ideas. From Qualifiers, through Nationals, to the eve of the Digital Incubator, we’ve narrowed that number down to 90.

Representing about 50 countries across seven regions, our remaining competitors will spend the next five weeks working with experts and mentors to evolve their pitches, measure their impact, refine their products and validate their go-to-market strategies.

Coming together for the 2026 cohort are our Nationals winners, our three fast track teams, and teams chosen by our Selection Committee through our rigorous online review process.

As we prepare to kickoff the Digital Incubator on Monday, June 8, we wish the best of luck to all our startups! 👏

Stay updated about our teams and their performances through this phase to see who will advance to the Global Accelerator in the UK 🔔

Each year, Hult Prize hand picks up to three early-application startup teams demonstrating early traction and scalable i...
06/04/2026

Each year, Hult Prize hand picks up to three early-application startup teams demonstrating early traction and scalable impact to be fast tracked through the competition.

In 2025, it was Rivopump (Germany) and Greenairy (Singapore), who advanced all the way to the Global Accelerator.

Congratulations to this year's fast track teams, who received the rare opportunity to advance straight from Qualifiers to the Digital Incubator! 🏁

𝗗-𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄
United Kingdom | Imperial College London
📈Detecting anomalies in microseismic waves to use in search and rescue missions involving collapsed infrastructure due to natural disasters to find trapped survivors.

𝗥𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲
Pakistan | University Of Lahore
♻️ Converting recycled paper into affordable, plantable eco-stationery that reduces waste, prevents deforestation, and creates green jobs while promoting reforestation

𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗨𝗽 𝗠𝗗𝗖
Nigeria | Air Force Institute of Technology Kaduna
💸 An AI voice-powered platform that lets underserved African communities report and earn from recyclable waste while connecting them to verified collectors to reduce plastic waste 💸

Congratulations to all three teams for this exciting achievement, and best of luck as you navigate the Digital Incubator!

06/04/2026

“When you have all this trust around you, how can you not win?”

This snapshot features ReBrine, a Moroccan team from UM6P - Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, transforming brine wastewater into sustainable microalgae products, along with some of the judges and organizers who helped bring the Morocco Nationals to life.

While founders take the stage, there's an entire team working behind the scenes to create these opportunities. From host universities and organizers, to judges, mentors and volunteers, it takes a village to make the Hult Prize Nationals stage possible.

A special thank you to our hosts at UM6P, ReBrine, Abdelqoudous Fidi, Anas Bounit, Ahmed Haouaria and the entire Hult Prize in Morocco Nationals team for welcoming us and allowing us to capture a small piece of their event 🇲🇦

Thank you to everyone who helped make the 2026 Hult Prize Nationals possible around the world! 🌍

It’s time to announce our FINAL group of 2026 Nationals winners! This competition cycle began with 18,000 startup ideas ...
06/02/2026

It’s time to announce our FINAL group of 2026 Nationals winners! This competition cycle began with 18,000 startup ideas from 130 countries. Now, only 91 remain as we move into the Digital Incubator.

Thank you to all our student founders for your determination and hard work. We are excited to see what you accomplish next!

𝗔𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗠
Ecuador | Universidad San Francisco de Quito
👩‍⚕️ Making elder care visible and preventative with a tech platform that connects families with verified caregivers and turns daily care into real-time insight, protection, and peace of mind.

𝗟-𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱
Rwanda | ALU
🚑 Detecting crashes in real time with a smart road safety and emergency response system, alerting emergency services instantly, and warning drivers during risky behavior to reduce accidents and save lives across Africa.

𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲
Bangladesh | BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology - BUFT
👖 Transforming denim waste into footwear, apparel, and textiles through circular manufacturing to cut carbon emissions, water use, and landfill waste while creating ethical jobs.

𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗫
Egypt | Mansoura University
🛏️ Preventing pressure ulcers with a smart medical mattress system for long-term bedridden patients through adaptive pressure redistribution, real-time monitoring, and microclimate control.

𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿
Brazil | PUCPR
🧯 Repurposing invasive algae into a bio-based flame retardant gel for early response and containment of wildfires while reducing environmental toxicity compared with conventional chemical retardants.

𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝘀
United Kingdom | Imperial College London
❄️ Manufacturing passive cooling roof tiles from fossilized algae that retrofit onto existing metal roofs to protect millions of industrial workers from extreme heat in India while eliminating the carbon emissions of traditional air conditioning.

Congratulations once again to all our 2026 Nationals winners, and best of luck in the Digital Incubator, starting Monday, June 8!

Congratulations and best of luck to this group of 2026 Nationals winners! Now that these teams have proven themselves an...
06/02/2026

Congratulations and best of luck to this group of 2026 Nationals winners! Now that these teams have proven themselves and their innovative, sustainable solutions to panels of judges across the globe, they’re now advancing to the Digital Incubator.

In this virtual phase, they’ll receive top-notch mentorship while validating product-market fit, establishing go-to-market strategies, and much more!

𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗞𝗮’𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘆
Paraguay | Universidad Nacional del Este - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
🐝 Integrating a sustainable beekeeping platform that produces honey and derivatives, offering pollination services to farmers and transforming hive products into food, cosmetic, and therapeutic solutions.

𝗗𝗲𝘃𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲
Nigeria | Covenant University
💼 Using AI to help aspiring tech professionals turn career goals into clear roadmaps, hands-on projects, and job-ready portfolios.

𝗙𝗹𝘂𝘅𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲
Nepal | Khwopa College of Engineering
☕ Collecting wasted coffee grounds from cafés and convert them into affordable mushroom-growing substrate, creating a circular solution that reduces landfill waste and supports small farmers.

𝗚𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗸𝗼
Senegal | Institut Polytechnique de Saint-Louis
🐄 Transforming invasive aquatic plants into affordable, climate-smart livestock feed that increases dairy productivity and reduces methane emissions for small and medium-scale farmers.

𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗛®
Sri Lanka | Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT)
🤰 Eradicating preventable stillbirths via the first clinical-grade, passive AI-wearable, transforming episodic prenatal care into continuous, zero-radiation home monitoring to democratize safety for the Global South.

𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲
Libya | University of Tripoli
♻️ Upcycling date pit waste into high-performance activated carbon for sustainable water purification.

Join us in congratulating another group of 2026 Nationals winners! 🥳 From denim upcycling, to wheelchair user empowermen...
06/01/2026

Join us in congratulating another group of 2026 Nationals winners! 🥳 From denim upcycling, to wheelchair user empowerment, these teams have taken the world’s greatest challenges and created for-profit, for good business solutions.

𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗢
Qatar | Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q)
🫀 Preventing irreversible cell death during heart attacks with a portable oxygen solution that decreases mortality and improves recovery.

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗲
Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technlogy
📹 Evolving existing CCTV systems into intelligent search and analytics platforms with a plug-and-play AI device, allowing users to instantly retrieve specific events and generate insights.

𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗰
Japan | International University of Japan
🌳 Creating a modular reusable formwork from recycled plastic waste and biomass as an alternative to single-user timber in Uganda’s construction, reducing costs, waste, and strain on forest cover.

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿-𝗢𝘂𝘁
Mexico | Tecnológico de Monterrey CDMX
♿ Enhancing the independence of wheelchair users by providing a lightweight, universal mechatronic adapter that converts manual wheelchairs into electric ones.

𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆
Sierra Leone | Institute of Public Administration and Management- Main Campus
🥣 Providing a biogas digester solution to restaurants to turn their food waste into a clean, safe, and fast cooking gas onsite, eliminating disposal costs and time, while replacing conventional, polluted, and slow cooking fuel.

𝗔𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗔𝗣
Uganda | Makerere University
🧑‍🌾 Supplying affordable, climate-smart soil amendment solutions designed to improve soil health and crop productivity for smallholder farmers most vulnerable to climate change.

𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗔𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝘆
Germany | Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden
🕹️ Delivering gamified, personalized life-skills learning for kids and teens with an AI-powered platform to teach self-management, financial and media literacy, learning strategies, and reflective AI use through assessment-based learning paths.

There’s only a few more groups of winners to announce before we’re officially onto the Digital Incubator!

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