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col-xs-6 col-lg-4"><div class=impact-stat__container><span class=impact-stat__figure>30</span> <span class=impact-stat__metric>Launched Prizes</span></div></div><div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-6 col-lg-5"><div class=impact-stat__container><span class=impact-stat__figure>35,000+</span> <span class=impact-stat__metric>Competitors</span></div></div><div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-6 col-lg-3"><div class=impact-stat__container><span class=impact-stat__figure>173</span> <span class=impact-stat__metric>Team Countries</span></div></div><div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-6 col-lg-4"><div class=impact-stat__container><span class=impact-stat__figure>360+</span> <span class=impact-stat__metric>Partners</span></div></div><div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-sm-6 col-xs-6 col-lg-5"><div class=impact-stat__container><span class=impact-stat__figure>$519M+</span> <span class=impact-stat__metric>Cumulative Prize Purse<br>Launched</span></div></div><div class="col-6 col-md-4 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Since then we have launched over $140 million in prize purses, including the $15 million Global Learning XPRIZE, the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, and the $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup XPRIZE. <br><br>Each of these prizes has created an industry-changing technology that brings us closer to a better, safer, more sustainable world.<br><br>Our 501(c)(3) nonprofit work of the last 25+ years has been solving some of the world’s greatest challenges and catalyzing global impact in three core areas:</p> <p><ul class="win-list" style="margin-left:1rem"><li><div style="display:flex;flex-direction: row"><img height="16" style="height:16px;margin-top:0.2rem;margin-right:0.5rem" src="https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/bcc06606-f50b-40f6-a310-b006e75b2991/ff_bullet.svg" role="none"><p>Piercing New Frontiers; including inspiring the multi-billion dollar space industry,</p></div></li><li><div style="display:flex;flex-direction: row"><img height="16" style="height:16px;margin-top:0.2rem;margin-right:0.5rem" src="https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/bcc06606-f50b-40f6-a310-b006e75b2991/ff_bullet.svg" role="none"><p>Securing a Healthy Planet; through healing our oceans, creating water from thin air and </p></div></li><li><div style="display:flex;flex-direction: row"><img height="16" style="height:16px;margin-top:0.2rem;margin-right:0.5rem" src="https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/bcc06606-f50b-40f6-a310-b006e75b2991/ff_bullet.svg" role="none"><p>Unleashing Human Potential; by empowering global learning and transforming personal healthcare.</p></div></li></ul></p><style>@media (max-width:768px) {.win-list img{margin-top:0.1rem!important;}}@media (max-width:428px) {.about--process{margin-top:3rem}.process__section.process__section--scale{background-image:none!important}.flex-container__image{display:none!important}iframe{height:28vh!important}}.win-list img{height:16px}</style></p> </div> </div> <div class="flex-container__image" style="visibility:hidden"> <img class="process__image" src="https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/ad5469f7-3dec-45f2-9ad1-92ceeededb35/Mission---History-of-XPRIZE.jpg?fm=jpg&auto=format"> </div> </div> <br /><br /> </div> </section> <section class="process__section process__section--development"> <div class="container"> <h2 class="process__heading display display--3">Catalyzing Impact</h2> <div class="flex-container"> <div class="flex-container__content"> <div class="column__content messina messina--3 messina--bold" style="font-weight:100"><p><h3 class="column-content__body" style="color:#ffffff;font-weight:bold" >We use large-scale global incentive competitions to crowdsource solutions to the world's grand challenges.</h3><br><p class="column-content__body" style="color:#ffffff">Incentive prize contests have existed for centuries. Rather than throw money at a problem, it’s possible to incentivize the solution, inspiring and challenging the global crowd to solve it. From the inception of the Longitude prize in 1714, through the Orteig prize that compelled Charles Lindbergh to fly across the Atlantic, prizes have ignited passions and brought about breakthroughs that no one thought possible. At XPRIZE we believe that solutions can come from anyone, anywhere. Scientists, engineers, academics, entrepreneurs and other innovators with new ideas from all over the world are invited to form teams and compete to win the prize. </p></p></div> </div> <div class="flex-container__image"> <img class="process__image" src="https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/a48f33ea-c84f-4b0f-9491-1a4e84ffdde4/Mission---Why-Prizes%20-%20NEW.jpg?fm=jpg&auto=format&w=600" alt="Man next to Spirit of St. Louis airplane"> </div> </div> <br /><br /> </div> </section> <section class="process__section process__section--development"> <div class="container"> <h2 class="process__heading display display--3" style="color:black"><h2 class="process__heading display display--3" style="color:#ffffff">A FUTURE OF ABUNDANCE FOR ALL</h2></h2> <div class="flex-container"> <div class="flex-container__image"> <img class="process__image" src="https://assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com:443/5cb25086-82d2-4c89-94f0-8450813a0fd3/070abedf-6302-4739-9642-e9f4105d2014/Mission---Mission-Abundance---400px.jpg?fm=jpg&auto=format&w=600" alt="Picture of planet earth" style="position: inherit;left:20%;bottom:0%"> </div> <div class="flex-container__content" style="margin-left:2rem"> <div class="column__content" style="font-weight:100;text-align:left"> <p><p class="column-content__body" style="color:#ffffff">Over the last 200 years technology has been a force converting scarcity into abundance, in almost every area from food, water, energy, healthcare, education and communications. 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