The Hult Prize inspires student entrepreneurs to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovative social enterprises with positive global impact. Through our year-long competition and since its inception, over 1 million young people from 120+ countries have participated in our programs, working to create high-impact startups that address the annual challenge in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Finalists pitch their businesses to a panel of expert judges, and the winning team receives $1M USD in funding to make their idea a reality.
Our Mission
Changing the world through social enterprise.
Our Belief
The world faces many pressing problems that are going to take true innovation to solve. We believe that fresh ideas from students with a real stake in the future have the power to take us to undreamed new places.
What We Do
Inspire student entrepreneurs to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovative social enterprise with positive global impact.
How We Do It
Annually host the world’s largest student competition for game-changing business ideas. Challenge young entrepreneurs worldwide to solve a pressing social issue. Invite the most promising startups to pitch their businesses to a panel of expert judges. Award the winning team $1M USD in funding to make their big idea a reality.
Our Impact
The Hult Prize has engaged millions worldwide. Each year, about 100,000 students in 120+ countries create innovative social startups. We help them to imagine, test, and refine their ideas, and ultimately, bring them to life. Many of our alumni have launched high-impact businesses that have truly moved the needle.
Since it was launched in 2009 by a group of Hult International Business School students, the Hult Prize has engaged more than 1 million youth worldwide. Many of our alumni continue to work actively on solutions to the world's most pressing social issues.
The Hult family, founders and owners of EF Education First and benefactors of the Hult International Business School, support the prize by providing a US$1M grant to the winning team(s) at a capstone event each September.
Bertil Hult
Benefactor of Hult Prize Foundation, Founder of EF Education First
EF Education First
International education company, founded in 1965, specializes in language training, educational travel, academic degree programs, and cultural exchange.
Hult International Business School
Hult is a dynamic multicultural community that educates, inspires, and connects some of the world’s most forward-thinking business talent by flipping the traditional approach to education by using learning-by-doing experiences to transform students' skillset.