The Innovation AwardsSEALED BY PROOF

Exclusive category sponsorship

Sponsor
The Innovation Awards.

Back the problem. Discover the proof.

Put your brand behind the innovation your industry needs. Get an evidence-led view of the field and meet the teams delivering results once independent judging is complete.

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One sponsoring brand per category. Once allocated, it’s off the table for competing brands for that term.

A better reason to sponsor

Buy insight. Not a seat at a dinner.

Put your problem on the map

Help shape a brief around the challenge your organisation needs solved. We own the public scoring rubric.

Understand what actually works

Get a post-results report on metrics, evidence quality and category trends. Entrant data stays aggregate or anonymised unless permission is given.

Meet innovation worth your time

Connect with consenting finalists and entrants once results are public. No premature access. No influence over winners.

The investment, upfront

Choose your level of commitment.

Proposed launch rates · GBP · excluding VAT

Back a single round

Round Sponsor

£7,500

per round, excluding VAT

One quarterly round · one category

  • Brand on the category page and published results
  • Input into the problem brief, not the scoring
  • Evidence-led round report
  • Introductions to consenting finalists after results

The category ownership package

Category Partner

£24,000

per year, excluding VAT

Four rounds · one category · one year

  • Everything in Round Sponsor, across all four rounds
  • Annual category trends report
  • One innovation scout seat
  • Brand attribution on category Seals of Proof
  • First refusal on category renewal

Limited to three partnerships

Founding Partner

£60,000

per year, excluding VAT

One category partnership · two-year commitment

£120,000 total over two years, excluding VAT

  • Everything in Category Partner
  • Platform-wide Founding Partner recognition
  • Quarterly cross-category intelligence report
  • Five scout seats, plus API and MCP access
  • Advisory board seat for governance, never judging
  • Launch rate locked for two years

Rates are proposed and subject to confirmation. Payment schedule and VAT treatment will be agreed before signing. No payment is taken on this site.

Extend your intelligence

Extra scout seat
£6,000 per year
API + MCP access
£15,000 per year
Custom problem round
From £35,000 per round

All add-ons exclude VAT. API and MCP access follows the same entrant-consent and data-access rules. Custom rounds use a private brief and public rubric.

More value for mission and scale

  • 25% off any tier for registered charities, foundations and universities.
  • 15% off each additional category when you sponsor two or more.
  • A two-year launch rate lock for the first five Category Partners, subject to confirmed allocation.

Eligibility and whether discounts can be combined will be confirmed in your proposal. Allocation counts are not live availability.

One category. One brand.

Which problem is yours?

Six categories to explore. Availability is confirmed in conversation, not inferred from this list.

Public impact

Replication Award

Public innovations successfully adopted elsewhere.

Commercial

Pilot-to-Contract

Innovations that escaped pilot purgatory.

Impact

Proof of Impact

Impact delivered against what was promised.

The independence promise

Fund the category.
Never the outcome.

Credibility is the thing you’re backing. These safeguards are part of every sponsorship agreement.

  • No entries, scores or rankings shared with sponsors before results are published.
  • No judging, judge nominations or shortlist reviews by sponsors.
  • Sponsors can shape the problem. We set the public rubric and lock it when the round opens.
  • Sponsor-affiliated entries require a declared, published conflict and a separate scoring panel.
  • Reporting is aggregate or anonymised. Identifiable entrant information and introductions require opt-in.
  • A result cannot be changed, or sponsorship withdrawn, because a sponsor dislikes it.

Media partner

The Infinite Loop

Coverage that outlives the announcement.

Globally acclaimed Total Innovation Podcast and Ideas for a Better World Newsletter. Winner stories run through The Infinite Loop, so the evidence you back keeps circulating long after results are published.

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Total Innovation Podcast

Long-form conversations with the people building and assessing innovation.

Ideas for a Better World Newsletter

A weekly read on innovation, leadership and the ideas reshaping work.

Editorial coverage

Written features on the innovations worth understanding.

Start the conversation

Put your name behind the next breakthrough.

Tell us the problem you care about. Let’s explore the right category, the evidence you need and a partnership that earns its place.

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