2020 SPIE Startup Challenge and New 6-Day Entrepreneur Program
The SPIE Startup Challenge is a high-stakes, global competition where entrepreneurs with light-enabled products have 5 minutes to pitch their businesses to a team of expert judges and vie for over $85,000 in cash, prizes, and promotion.
The SPIE Startup Challenge is held annually at Photonics West in San Francisco; the largest research conference and trade show for light-based products in North America with over 1,300 companies and 22,000 attendees.
New in 2020, we are providing an Entrepreneur Program—holding a week full of training, panels, networking events for entrepreneurs, VCs, and the startup community. Learn more below.
Business strategy, pitch reviews, and competition logistics are all discussed on the SPIE Startup Challenge channel on Slack. Send an email to 
