America\u2019s greatest innovations often begin as bold ideas \u2014 dreamed up in classrooms, garages, labs, and communities across the country. America\u2019s Startup is designed to spotlight, support, and celebrate those ideas at their earliest stages.<\/p>\n
As a signature program within America Innovates, America\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
America\u2019s Startup is a national collegiate startup competition created to spotlight early-stage business ideas with the potential to drive America\u2019s future economic, technological, and societal progress.<\/p>\n
Participants submit a proposal and pitch video outlining their business idea, with selected teams advancing through a multi-stage review process that includes a live pitch experience.<\/p>\n
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Contest begins at 12:01 am ET on 2\/15\/26 and ends at 11:59 p.m. ET on 3\/31\/26. Open to U.S. students who are 13+ and enrolled at an accredited university, college or trade school located in the U.S. Semi-Finalists must travel to San Mateo, CA, from May 1-3, 2026. See Official Rules<\/a> for full details including how to enter, eligibility requirements, prize description\/restrictions and judging procedure. Void where prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America\u2019s greatest innovations often begin as bold ideas \u2014 dreamed up in classrooms, garages, labs, and communities across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[138,336,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-281379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}