XPRIZE and Cambridge Consultants Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Breakthrough Innovation

Sep 14, 2026

CAMBRIDGE, UK, September 14, 2026 —  XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to solve humanity’s toughest challenges, and Cambridge Consultants (CC), the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini, today announced a new strategic collaboration.

For more than 30 years, XPRIZE’s unique competition model has mobilized innovators, capital, and expertise around challenges once considered impossible. The collaboration will embed CC’s world-class global product development and multidisciplinary technical expertise across the XPRIZE lifecycle. CC will provide technical advisory, testing, engineering, and validation support across the design and delivery of XPRIZE competitions.

Working alongside XPRIZE, CC experts will help shape the challenge architecture, define how competing solutions are assessed, and develop the testing methodologies used to evaluate submissions. CC will also support the judging process and contribute to the ongoing evaluation of solutions throughout the competition. Reflecting the strong alignment between the two organizations, CC will support XPRIZE across a broad range of challenge domains, bringing its expertise in technology, engineering, and innovation to help design, evaluate, and advance breakthrough solutions.

XPRIZE will gain access to CC’s global cohort of more than 750 world-class scientists, engineers, technologists and designers, creating an extended technical bench that can be deployed across the XPRIZE lifecycle. From prize design and technical validation to product development and commercialization, CC will help strengthen the pathway from breakthrough ideas to scalable, real-world solutions.

“At XPRIZE, winning the competition is never the finish line,” said Elaine Hungenberg, Senior Vice President, Partnerships & Impact, XPRIZE. “CC brings technical depth across disciplines that will make strong prizes even stronger, while helping innovators bridge the critical gap between breakthrough and adoption. Together, we can help more transformative technologies move further, faster.”

“The world’s biggest challenges demand bold ideas, but invention alone is not enough,” said Richard Traherne, CEO, Cambridge Consultants. “By bringing together XPRIZE’s power to inspire breakthrough thinking and our ability to turn new-to-the-world technologies into reality, we can accelerate transformative solutions from possibility to global impact.”

Together, XPRIZE and CC will create a stronger bridge between breakthrough potential and proven, scalable solutions – combining XPRIZE’s proven competition model with CC’s technical expertise to accelerate promising innovations toward deployment, adoption, and global impact.

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About XPRIZE
XPRIZE is the recognized global leader in designing and executing large-scale competitions to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. For over 30 years, our unique model has democratized crowd-sourced innovation and scientifically scalable solutions that accelerate a more equitable and abundant future. Donate, learn more, and co-architect a world of abundance with us at xprize.org.
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About Cambridge Consultants 
Cambridge Consultants (CC) is the deep tech powerhouse of the Capgemini Group. Deep tech is a mindset, a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It delivers transformative business value and growth for our clients, who gain defendable commercial and operational advantage from new-to-the-world products, services and processes that they own. We overcome the ultimate business challenge: turning something that doesn’t yet exist into a reality. Our advice is built on practice, with over 750 scientists, engineers, designers and consultants working globally across more than 20,000 sq. m of state-of-the-art R&D facilities. As part of Capgemini Invent, CC is backed by 340,000+ Capgemini team members in more than 50 countries.

About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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