We’re looking to accelerate business creation

To be eligible for The Challenge:

• Participant or, for Team Entries, a participating member of the Team, must have developed, or be in the process of developing a product or service based on a new or innovative technology, or an innovative application of an existing technology developed by Participant or the participating member of the Team (“Participant Innovation”).
• The Participant Innovation developed or under development has the potential to address one of the following five key focus tracks:
  1. Connected Health
  2. Energizing Mobility: Renewable Energy and EV charging
  3. Smart Lifestyles: Intelligent and Connected Services and Devices
  4. The Metaverse
  5. Innovation for Impact: Open category for solutions that improve people’s lives
• Participant complies with this Agreement, including the Competition Guidance.
• There are no restrictions on future funding of Participant or, for Team Entries, any participating member of the Team, based on the Participant’s or the Team’s funding as of the date of its Entry submission.
• For any Participant or Team member (for Team Entries) that is a legal entity, it (A) is organized under the laws of a Country which is not an Excluded Country (as defined herein), and (B) does not have any subsidiaries or affiliates located or incorporated in any Excluded Country (an “Eligible Country”).
• (A) If Participant is an individual, Participant is, or (B) if Participant is an entity, at least one founder or executive of the entity, or (C) for Team Entries, at least one Team member or founder or executive of a Team member is a legal resident of an Eligible Country, and is at least eighteen (18) years of age as of the date of Entry submission.
• Participant is not, and no officer, director, manager or employee of Participant or, for Team Entries, of any Team member is subject to sanctions in the United States or listed on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List or the Office of Foreign Assets Control Sanctions Lists, which may be found here.
• Participant does not have, and no officer, director, manager or employee of Participant or, for Team Entries, of any Team member has, any familial or financial relationship with Sponsor or any Judge. If Participant becomes aware of any fact or circumstance that any such relationship exists or has developed prior to the judging of The Challenge, Participant agrees to notify Sponsor immediately.
  
  
• Excluded Countries:
  Each of the following is an Excluded Country: Crimea – Region of Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), Sudan and Syria.

Application can be submitted to the Mission for the Future Challenge here.

There are two parts to the application.  Once you've submit part 1 you will be invited to fill out part 2.  Please submit your entries to part 1 by October 27, 2021, 11:59 p.m. PT. The deadline for part 2 is November 1st, 2021, 11:59 p.m. PT.  

Early entries may receive notifications of ongoing opportunities to engage with the LG NOVA team during the submission process.