Grants of $250K to $1M
Explore grants with an award between $250,000 and $1 million. This directory lists funding for product development, applied research, feasibility and early commercialization, the range where most national innovation programs and second-phase awards sit, with the deadline and eligibility on every listing.
Showing 409-432 of 731 grants
SOSV SF (formerly IndieBio SF)
🇺🇸SOSV · United States
Invests in deep-tech startups and provides a six-month San Francisco residency with hands-on lab development support.
Space for Olympic Games
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-based digital-transformation services for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
SPRIND Funke
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Supports early-stage German innovators through a pilot challenge route with mentoring and development funding.
Strategic Partnership Grants (SPG)
🇺🇸MSU · United States
Supports Michigan State University faculty teams building long-run research centers through internal matching mechanisms.
Sustainable Shipbuilding Subsidy (SDS)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch shipyards to test emission- and noise-cutting innovations on a new or rebuilt vessel.
Sustained Support for Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
NIH · United States
Funds the running costs and continued relevance of a cancer informatics tool that researchers already depend on.
Technology in Space Prize
🇺🇸CASIS · United States
Awards MassChallenge startups up to $500,000 a year in nondilutive funding for ISS-based R&D.
Thiel Fellowship
🇺🇸Thiel Foundation · United States
Pays $250,000 over two years to young people who leave or skip college to build something new instead, plus mentorship and access to the Thiel Foundation's network of founders and investors.
TIPS — Tech Incubator Program for Startups
🇰🇷KISED · South Korea
Offers Korean technology ventures matching support for execution and commercialization readiness.
Transformative Health Instrument
🇬🇧EIT Health · European Union
Gives for-profit health SMEs a EUR 400,000-500,000 grant that converts to an equity option, with a 30% co-funding requirement.
Transforming Queensland Manufacturing Grants Program — Round 2
🇦🇺QLD Government · Australia
Offers matched support for Queensland manufacturers increasing productivity, export pathways, and reshoring potential.
TÜBİTAK 1501 — Industrial R&D Projects Grant
🇹🇷TÜBİTAK · Türkiye
Funds Turkish companies through TÜBİTAK to run applied industrial innovation projects across technology sectors.
Twin Transition Financial Support Program (İkiz Dönüşüm Mali Destek Programı)
🇹🇷İSTKA · Türkiye
Funds digital and energy transformation projects in Istanbul through municipal-level support for twin transformation initiatives.
U.S Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Fire Science Exchange Announcement
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds leading a two-year regional exchange connecting fire scientists with the practitioners who use their work.
U.S. Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Primary Announcement
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds research on why fire regimes are changing and how prescribed-fire smoke affects air quality.
UNHCR Innovation Accelerator
UNHCR Innovation · Global / Multinational
Offers catalytic seed funding up to USD 250,000 to scale proven innovations for displaced people.
Unlocking Urologic Oncology Innovation QuickFire Challenge
🇺🇸J&J Innovation · United States
Supports innovators designing bladder and prostate cancer therapies and surgical tools through a J&J urologic oncology challenge.
USDA SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸USDA NIFA · United States
Supports United States small businesses advancing agricultural inventions toward market-ready products after successful early projects.
Verification: Research Commercialisation from Publicly Funded Research Organisations
🇳🇴RCN · Norway
Funds Norwegian research organisations, their tech transfer offices, and spin-out startups maturing new technology toward commercial use through the Research Council of Norway's Verification: Research Commercialisation scheme.
Vietnam-Japan Semiconductor S&T Cooperation
🇻🇳NAFOSTED · Vietnam
Funds Vietnam-Japan semiconductor collaboration on design, materials, and manufacturing innovation through co-funded research.
VVP Pre-Seed Fund
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Invests in Virginia pre-seed startups through equity co-investment partnerships and founder-ready growth support.
Wellcome Early-Career Awards
🇬🇧Wellcome · United Kingdom
Supports early-career United Kingdom scientists with career development and research funding to grow independence.
WVCAP Collateral Support
🇺🇸WVJIT · United States
Provides collateral enhancement to help West Virginia businesses secure conventional bank loans they otherwise cannot obtain.
XSeed Award
🇺🇸Cure & Deerfield · United States
Awards up to $250,000 to NYC-based minority- and women-led drug development startups.