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Competitions are great opportunities to raise funding for your new venture, be it in an idea or a scale-up stage. Besides money, you can quickly expand your network and gain new partners or clients.

There are numerous organizations and foundations who sponsor various competitions and partner with other organizations throughout each year. Competitions vary from business plan competitions, elevator pitches, to social entrepreneurship competitions for students, faculty and the public.

Here is a list of the top business case competitions (the majority of them are international) for the end of 2016 and 2017.