Grants of $50K to $250K
Explore grants with an award between $50,000 and $250,000. This directory lists seed-stage funding for feasibility studies, prototypes, first pilots and early research, from innovation agencies, research councils, foundations and corporate programs, with the deadline and eligibility on every listing.
Showing 1-24 of 734 grants
AHA Institutional Research Enhancement Award (AIREA)
AHA · United States
Supports institutional cardiovascular research capacity through enhancement awards to strengthen real-world implementation.
Mitacs Accelerate Global Excellence Award
🇨🇦Mitacs · Canada
Invests in exceptional international postdoctoral researchers relocating to Canada for industry-partnered research.
BBSRC-STFC DeepTech Catalyst Bio
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom startups working on biological-in-nature technologies through BBSRC STFC DeepTech Catalyst Bio to move ideas toward practical impact.
Starbucks Global Cold Cup Innovation Challenge
Starbucks · United States
Pays up to $50,000 to solvers who invent a plastic-free, compostable cold-cup material.
PowerUp Net Zero – Open Call for Innovation Projects
🇪🇺Piemonte Innova · Italy
Funds SME consortia up to €120,000 to pilot and test net-zero technologies.
Proof of Concept (Dokazivanje inovativnog koncepta) (PoC9 — First PK.1.1.17)
🇭🇷HAMAG-BICRO · Croatia
Funds concept-stage Croatian innovations by supporting technical validation, protection work, and proof activities before scale-up.
Strategic Mobility
🇸🇪SSF · Sweden
Supports cross-sector researcher mobility in Sweden through exchanges among academia, industry, and public institutions.
EIT Health - Entrepreneurship & Innovation Micro-Credentials Call
🇪🇺EIT Health · European Union
Funds one consortium to build a certified micro-credentials programme teaching entrepreneurship and innovation to health and life-science students.
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Micro-Credentials Call
EIT Health · European Union
Funds a consortium to build a new EIT Label-certified micro-credentials programme teaching entrepreneurship and innovation to healthcare students.
FY26 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Concept Award
CDMRP · United States
Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.
ERC Proof of Concept Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.
ERC Proof of Concept Grants
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.
BJS FY 2026 State Justice Statistics Program for Statistical Analysis Centers
🇺🇸BJS · United States
Funds each state's official crime-statistics office to collect, analyse and publish criminal-justice data for state planning.
Full ADOPT Grant: Round 9
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Run an on-farm trial of a new idea and show other English farmers whether it works.
Dr Pascoal Mocumbi Prize
🇪🇺EDCTP3 · European Union
Awards EUR 50,000 to one scientist recognised for advancing clinical development of products for poverty-related diseases in Africa.
Outstanding Research Team Prize
🇪🇺EDCTP3 · European Union
Awards EUR 50,000 to a research team recognised for South-North global-health partnerships on poverty-related diseases.
SME Eco-Tech
🇷🇴MEDAT · Romania
Gives Romanian SMEs, including trade, services and qualifying micro-enterprises, a co-financing grant of up to RON 267,240 toward green and digital investments, provided they also secure a matching bank loan.
SME Eco-Tech
🇷🇴MEDAT · Romania
Grants Romanian SMEs up to 40% of costs for green equipment, topped up by a bank loan.
IH-MIE Open Call 2026
🇪🇺IH-MIE · European Union
Funds SME-led hydrogen mobility projects moving from prototype to market-ready technology.
Local Water Environment Grant
🇬🇧Environment Agency · United Kingdom
Grants for partnership projects that improve local water environments
AI for Transformative Social Impact
🇮🇳RAFT · India
Funds Indian nonprofits building AI-native tools for measurable social impact.
Connect NEB and Co-Create NEB 2027
EIT Community NEB · European Union
Funds community groups turning New European Bauhaus ideas into real transformation in public spaces.
Global Prize for Innovation in Water (GPIW) 2026
SWA · Saudi Arabia
Pays up to $800,000 in cash prizes to water-innovation solvers worldwide.
iDEX Open Challenge
🇮🇳iDEX · India
Pays Indian startups and MSMEs up to ₹1.5 crore to pitch defence and aerospace technology.