We offer students a deeply immersive, multidisciplinary learning experience to build trackable, career-transforming skills needed to address societal challenges through venture creation.
Define the problem
Students identify and pitch innovative, grand challenge need statements based on set focus areas. Finalists pitch live at the NEXPLORE summit, and winning topics are awarded $2,040 and selected as the challenge for the next Xperience competition.
Solve the problem
Student teams tackle the selected challenge, collaborating across disciplines to develop an investment-grade MVP. They compete for the chance to transform their ideas into a venture and secure up to $2M in investment.
Launch the venture
Student teams are built to tackle a partner defined challenge, collaborating across disciplines to develop an investment-grade MVP, with the opportunity to earn a contract, investment, or prize.
Team Crossfire has begun the process of productizing successful technologies and innovations arising from its XPRIZE Wildfire development efforts.
$350K
(to date)
DefenX entered Xcelerate but did not complete their journey due to internal organizational decisions.