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Grant funders

Federal agencies, foundations, multinationals, and corporate programs that fund deep-tech R&D. Filter by country, funder type, or annual grant volume.

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Vinnova — Sweden's Innovation Agency logo
Sweden

Vinnova — Sweden's Innovation Agency

Federal agency

Vinnova, Sweden's Innovation Agency, is Sweden's federal innovation agency under the Ministry of Climate and Enterprise. Its annual budget is about SE…

12 programsSEK 3B / yr
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health logo
United States

Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

Federal agency

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) was established in March 2022 with a $1 billion founding appropriation, and has run at appro…

11 programs$1.5B / yr
Innosuisse — Swiss Innovation Agency logo
Switzerland

Innosuisse — Swiss Innovation Agency

Federal agency

Innosuisse is the Swiss Innovation Agency, the federal funding agency that supports science-based innovation in the interests of the Swiss economy and…

11 programsCHF 250M / yr
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) logo
Japan

New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)

Federal agency

NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization) is Japan's largest public R&D funding agency, operating under the Ministry of Eco…

11 programs¥1500B / yr
NIH Common Fund logo
United States

NIH Common Fund

Federal agency

The NIH Common Fund is a funding entity within the NIH Office of the Director, managed by the Office of Strategic Coordination in DPCPSI. It backs tim…

11 programs$685.0M / yr
Novo Nordisk Foundation logo
Denmark

Novo Nordisk Foundation

Foundation

The Novo Nordisk Foundation is an independent Danish enterprise foundation based in Denmark, founded in 1924, and one of Europe's largest charitable f…

11 programsDKK 10.1B / yr
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority logo
United States

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority

Federal agency

Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) sits within HHS's Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response and funds medi…

10 programs$1.7B / yr
Dutch Research Council (NWO) logo
Netherlands

Dutch Research Council (NWO)

Research council

The Dutch Research Council, or NWO, is the Netherlands' national research funding agency under the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. It inve…

10 programs€1.5B / yr
Ministry of University & Research (Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, MUR) logo
Italy

Ministry of University & Research (Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, MUR)

Federal agency

The Ministero dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MUR) is Italy's ministry for universities and competitive research funding. The record places it in Ita…

10 programs€409M / yr
National Research Council Canada logo
Canada

National Research Council Canada

Federal agency

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is the Government of Canada's primary federal research and technology organisation. Its Industrial Resea…

10 programsCAD 414M / yr
Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) logo
India

Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC)

Federal agency

BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council) is India's flagship biotech industry R&D and start-up funding agency. It is a Public Sector…

9 programs₹5B / yr
European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency logo
European Union

European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

Multinational

CINEA is the EU executive agency responsible for implementing climate, infrastructure, and environment funding programmes on behalf of the European Co…

9 programs€4B / yr
HRB (Health Research Board Ireland) logo
Ireland

HRB (Health Research Board Ireland)

Research council

The Health Research Board (HRB) is Ireland's principal public funder of health research. It is a statutory body with a budget of about €50 million a y…

9 programs€50M / yr
Javna agencija SPIRIT Slovenija logo
Slovenia

Javna agencija SPIRIT Slovenija

Public institution

Javna agencija SPIRIT Slovenija, or SPIRIT Slovenia, is Slovenia's public agency for entrepreneurship, internationalisation, foreign investment, and t…

9 programs€29.7M / yr
Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) logo
South Korea

Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT)

Federal agency

KIAT (Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology) is South Korea's industrial-technology programme management agency, operating under the Ministry …

9 programs₩2000B / yr
National Institute on Aging logo
United States

National Institute on Aging

Federal agency

The National Institute on Aging (NIA) is the NIH component that leads federal aging research. It is the second-largest NIH institute by budget, with a…

9 programs$4.529B / yr
Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy logo
United States

Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy

Federal agency

The Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) was chartered in 2007 by the America COMPETES Act and began operations in 2009. Modeled on DARPA…

8 programs$350M / yr
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) logo
Austria

Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Federal agency

Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), or FFG, is Austria's national funding agency for industrial research and development. It is wholly owned by …

8 programs€1B / yr
Conquer Cancer — ASCO Foundation logo
Global / Multinational

Conquer Cancer — ASCO Foundation

Foundation

Conquer Cancer — The ASCO Foundation is the philanthropic foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the main source of non-federal c…

8 programs$11.5M / yr
GAČR (Czech Science Foundation) logo
Czechia

GAČR (Czech Science Foundation)

Federal agency

GAČR, the Czech Science Foundation, is the Czech Republic's independent public funder of basic research. Founded in 1993 and grounded in Act No. 130/2…

8 programsCZK 3.7B / yr
Innovation Fund Denmark (Innovationsfonden) logo
Denmark

Innovation Fund Denmark (Innovationsfonden)

Federal agency

Innovation Fund Denmark (Innovationsfonden) is Denmark's national public-sector innovation funding agency under the Ministry of Higher Education and S…

8 programsDKK 1.6B / yr
Multiple Sclerosis Society UK logo
United Kingdom

Multiple Sclerosis Society UK

Foundation

Multiple Sclerosis Society UK (MS Society UK) is a UK foundation and the country's largest charitable funder of MS research. It has invested over GBP …

8 programs£1.8M / yr
California Energy Commission logo
United States

California Energy Commission

State agency

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is California's state energy agency and the largest state-level clean energy grant-maker in the United States. …

7 programs$130M / yr
EIT Food logo
European Union

EIT Food

Other

EIT Food is one of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology's Knowledge and Innovation Communities, a European Union-backed public-private …

7 programs€70M / yr