Applications are open!
Student innovators developing hard tech ventures can compete for a share of our growing prize pool in the 2025 ASU Innovation Open competition.
Advancing student innovation
Gain the tools to disrupt and innovate
Got an idea for a revolutionary hard tech venture? Put your idea to the test and win the funding you need to make it a reality.
Our competition is designed to challenge and advance university student innovators who aim to develop hard tech ventures.
Change the world with just one pitch
2023 ASU.io Recap
The seventh annual competition in 2023 featured 25 student-led organizations from 15 different schools spread across three continents.
Dream up your idea
Conceptualize your revolutionary ideas, and then create your business plan with data backing it up.
Pitch your business
Give a pitch to real investors in an exciting, fast-paced, real-world scenario.
Win funding
Win up to $100,000 to make your dreams a reality.
Sponsors
Powered-by sponsors
$100,000 Pay It Forward prize
Innovation sponsors
Source Global
$25,000 Technology for Social Equity prize
$10,000 Patient Safety Prize
Media sponsors
$10,000 in support
In-kind sponsors
