Application Deadline: America's Startup Competition 3/31/26

Do you have a business idea that represents the best of American innovation? Think you have what it takes to pitch your idea and secure funding?

Gather your team and apply now!

IMPORTANT: This is a deadline for application only, not a live event. Mark your calendars to submit, not to attend!

Application deadline: March 31, 2026.

What’s your winning idea?

America’s greatest innovations often begin as bold ideas — dreamed up in classrooms, garages, labs, and communities across the country. America’s Startup is designed to spotlight, support, and celebrate those ideas at their earliest stages.

As a signature program within America Innovates, America’s Startup provides a national platform for student founders, young entrepreneurs, and early-stage innovators whose ideas could help shape the next 250 years of American ingenuity, creativity, and progress.