About us

We are a global leader in the design and delivery of challenge prizes to tackle the world’s most urgent and complex problems.

We are in the business of breakthroughs.

As global leaders in designing and delivering challenge prizes, we transform bold ideas into scalable solutions that reshape industries. We don’t wait for incremental progress – we drive exponential change.

Having launched over a hundred challenge prizes globally for public, private, and philanthropic partners, our impact engine unleashes global ingenuity to solve society’s most complex problems.

Our impact in numbers

We know that great things happen when people come together.

We believe innovation doesn’t need permission; it needs ambition, urgency, and a clear finish line. When diverse minds unite with the right incentives, the impossible becomes inevitable.

We are part of Nesta, the UK’s innovation agency for social good, designing, testing, and scaling solutions for the biggest challenges of our time.

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Our team

Our team of 40+ professionals combines expertise in design, innovation, programme and financial management, research, evaluation and communications.

Meet the team

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Our partners

At Challenge Works we unite a global network of industry leaders, governments, social enterprises and charities to solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

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Our Board of Longitude

Our challenge prize model enables governments, private and public organisations and philanthropic funders an effective way to reach diverse and innovative talent from across the globe.

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Our priorities

We aim our efforts where breakthroughs matter most: health, climate adaptation, social inclusion and frontier technologies. By identifying the boldest innovation opportunities, we test solutions, fund proof, and accelerate systemic change that improves the lives of millions.