• win the Startup category award worth over $500,000 (cash-grants)
• win the Crowded Places Idea Award ($10,000)
• receive mentorship by leading venture capitalists
• showcase their innovations in front of a large investment/government audience
• receive publicity in the press (past finalists were mentioned in Red Herring, Washington Post, BusinessWeek, etc)

The Global Security Challenge is sponsored by a variety of government agencies, corporations, academic institutions and venture capitalists, all of which participate in the judging process and events all of whom the entrants have access to. The organizers fully expect entrants to take the opportunity to take advantage of the competition as an opportunity to gain access to an unparalleled global network of people with an active role in the non-offensive security space.