Press Releases

2024

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2024 Global Challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship

PRESS RELEASE: Heifer Africa’s AYuTe Challenge Winners Amplify Impact of their Agritech Solutions with MIT Solve Innovators Program

2023

PRESS RELEASE: Crescent Enterprises climate innovation prize of AED 735,000 awarded to 4 global entrepreneurs

PRESS RELEASE: Impact for SDGs Takes Stage at COP 28, Spearheading Global Climate Leadership

PRESS RELEASE: State of Open Innovation 2023 report: Organizations use open innovation to address their most urgent and important goals

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Awards Over $1.5 Million in Funding to 31 Tech-Based Innovators Addressing Global Challenges

PRESS RELEASE: CURE® OPENS APPLICATIONS TO CURE XCHANGE CHALLENGE FOCUSED ON "HEALTH AI FOR GOOD"

PRESS RELEASE: Truist Foundation Announces Deadline Extended for Second Inspire Awards Challenge

PRESS RELEASE: Horizon Therapeutics plc and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Solve Announce the Launch of the Third Annual Horizon Prize to Inspire Sustainable Solutions for Research and Care in the Rare Disease Community

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2023 Global Challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship

2022

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2023 Global Challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship

PRESS RELEASE: Horizon Therapeutics plc Announces EB Research Partnership Receives 2022 Horizon Prize, Powered by MIT Solve

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Selects New Class of 40 Tech-Based Social Entrepreneurs Addressing Global Challenges with over $2 Million in Funding

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2022 Global Challenges and the Indigenous Communities Fellowship

2021

PRESS RELEASE: Announcing Winning Solutions of First-Ever Horizon Prize, Powered by MIT Solve, to Accelerate Rare Disease Diagnosis

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Inaugural Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces New Class of 42 Social Entrepreneurs Solving Global Challenges with over $2.3 Million in Funding

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Virtual Solve Challenge Finals on September 17 with Eric S. Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zoom and Karlie Kloss, Supermodel and Founder of Kode with Klossy

PRESS RELEASE: Rheaply Closes $2.2 Million Inter-series Funding Round with Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund and MIT Solve

PRESS RELEASE: Inspirational Finalists Announced for the $5 Million Elevate Prize

PRESS RELEASE: The Trinity Challenge Finalists are announced

PRESS RELEASE: ServiceNow Launches 2021 Digital Workforce Challenge to Enable a Digital and Equitable World of Work

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Four New Solve Innovation Future Investments in Early-Stage Social Entrepreneurs

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces the Launch of Solv[ED]

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces will.i.am; Noubar Afeyan, Co-Founder and Chairman of Moderna; and Gitanjali Rao, TIME’s Kid of the Year to Speak at Virtual Solve at MIT on May 3-4

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2021 Global Challenges and New US-Focused Antiracist Technology Challenge for Social Entrepreneurs

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Kicks off 2021 Indigenous Communities Fellowship with 2021 Virtual Indigenous Innovators Summit, February 10-11

2020

PRESS RELEASE: Mission Billion Challenge “WURI West Africa Prize” Awards Innovations in Cross-Border Social Protection for the Informal Sector

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Third Annual Class of Indigenous Communities Fellows

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces New Solver Class of 35 Tech-Based Social Entrepreneurs Addressing Global Challenges

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve, a Marketplace for Social Impact, Appoints Sara Monteabaro to Lead its Custom Open Innovation Challenges

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Virtual Solve Challenge Finals on September 29 with Sal Khan, Founder and CEO of Khan Academy, and Over $2 Million in Funding

PRESS RELEASE: The Elevate Prize Foundation Announces Top 20 Global Finalists Competing for $5M Philanthropic Award

PRESS RELEASE: The Elevate Prize Foundation Announces Judging Panel for Inaugural Elevate Prize powered by MIT Solve

PRESS RELEASE: ServiceNow Announces Winner of First-Ever Digital Workforce Challenge powered by MIT Solve

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Initial Solve Innovation Future Investments

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra and Cellist Yo-Yo Ma to Speak at Annual Solve at MIT Meeting on May 12

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Over $1.5 Million in Funding for 2020 Solver Teams

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2020 Indigenous Communities Fellowship

PRESS RELEASE: The Elevate Prize Foundation to Award Up to $5M Annually to Global Heroes in Bid to “Change the Way We Change the World”

PRESS RELEASE: ServiceNow Launches Global Challenge to Find Solutions for the Digital Workforce, Powered by MIT Solve

2019

PRESS RELEASE: Tecnológico de Monterrey and La Universidad de los Andes Launch TPrize Challenge, Powered by MIT Solve, to Crowdsource Solutions to Close the Skills Gap Across Latin America & the Caribbean

PRESS RELEASE: Global Infrastructure Hub Launches Global Contest to Unlock Digital Solutions for Infrastructure

PRESS RELEASE: Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity Launches Cohort 2 of the Global Maker Challenge at the 8th Ministerial Conference of the Least Developed Countries

PRESS RELEASE: IDB Group Launches Open Innovation Challenge to Reduce Plastic Use

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces New Solver Class of 32 Tech Entrepreneurs Solving Global Challenges

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Solve Challenge Finals on September 22 During UN General Assembly Week

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Launch of Solve Innovation Fund

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces $1.25 Million in Funding for 2019 Solver Teams

PRESS RELEASE: World Bank Announces ‘Mission Billion Challenge’ Winners, Spotlighting the Transformational Potential of Digital Identification and Innovative Ideas to Strengthen Privacy & Empower People

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve, a Marketplace for Social Impact, Appoints Casey van der Stricht to Lead Solve Innovation Fund

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 7 Fellows for the 2019 Indigenous Communities Fellowship

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2019 Indigenous Communities Fellowship

2018

PRESS RELEASE: World Bank Group Launches Innovation Challenge to Strengthen Data Privacy and Empower the World’s ‘Invisible Billion’

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces New Solver Class of 33 Tech Entrepreneurs Solving Global Challenges

PRESS RELEASE: The Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity launches Four Global Maker Challenges in New York with USD $1 Million Call for Action

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Solve Challenge Finals on September 23 During UN General Assembly Week with Diane von Furstenberg, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Cheryl Dorsey

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Solve at Standing Rock August 12-13, Partnering with Oceti Sakowin Innovators and Communities

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Recipients of Second-Round Prize Funding totaling $1.5 Million from Australian DFAT and Atlassian Foundation International

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces General Motors Prize for Advanced Technologies

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Co-Chairs for Global Challenges: Coastal Communities, Frontlines of Health, Teachers & Educators, Work of the Future

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Speak at Annual Meeting, Solve at MIT

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Inaugural Oceti Sakowin Fellows

PRESS RELEASE: UN Agencies and MIT's Solve Partner With Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity to Revolutionize Social Innovation

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces Flagship Meeting Solve at MIT with Speakers from Amazon, Girls Who Code, Mozilla, and Patagonia

MIT NEWS: Solve Announces Next Global Challenges at MIT’s Intelligence Quest

LETTER: Announcing the next Solve Global Challenges

PRESS RELEASE: City of Norfolk and RISE Co-Host MIT Solve Challenge Design Workshop on Coastal Resilience on January 24

2017

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announce 2017 Solver Teams for Youth, Skills and Workforce of the Future Challenge Following Live Pitch Event

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2017 Women and Technology Challenge Solver Teams Following Live Pitch Event

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2017 Sustainable Urban Communities Challenge Solver Teams Following Live Pitch Event

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 2017 Brain Health Challenge Solver Teams Following Live Pitch Event

PRESS RELEASE: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan Presenting at MIT Solve Challenge Finals

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 20 Youth, Skills and the Workforce of the Future Challenge Finalists

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 16 Women and Technology Challenge Finalists

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 15 Sustainable Urban Communities Challenge Finalists

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Solve Announces 16 Brain Health Challenge Finalists

PRESS RELEASE: Ursula Burns, Luis Alberto Moreno, and Yo-Yo Ma Announced as 2017 MIT Solve Challenge Finals Speakers

PRESS RELEASE: Innovators to Live Pitch for Up to $2 Million in Prizes, Yo-Yo Ma Mentorship

MIT NEWS: MIT’s Solve Initiative Seeks Solutions to Its 2017 Global Challenges

PRESS RELEASE: MIT's Solve Initiative Announces Partnerships to CrowdSolve Global Challenges with Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Yo-Yo Ma, Laurene Powell Jobs, and Ursula Burns and Up to $2 Million of Prizes Including from the Atlassian Foundation and Others

ADVISORY: Media Registration Open Today for Solve at MIT, May 8-10, 2017

PRESS RELEASE: Solve Concludes "Solve at the United Nations" with Judges Selecting 19 Solvers Committed to Creating Solutions in the Challenge Areas of Refugee Education, Carbon Contributions and Chronic Diseases and Announces Program, Participants for Solve's Flagship Event at MIT, May 8-10, 2017

PRESS RELEASE: Media Registration is Now Open for MIT's Solve at the United Nations on March 7, 2017

MIT NEWS: Solve Launches New Challenges on Climate, Education, and Health Care

2016

PRESS RELEASE: MIT Initiative Solve Launches New Challenges to Address Global Issues


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