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.
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Diaspora Invests at Home
🇷🇴Ministry of Finance · Romania
Funds Romanian diaspora entrepreneurs starting businesses back home with up to 200,000 euros.
DICES
🇺🇸MassCEC · United States
Runs DICES to back underrepresented Massachusetts cleantech founders with mentoring and grant support for early venture development.
Digital Process Innovation
🇮🇪Enterprise Ireland · Ireland
Funds SMEs and large companies to digitise operations and change how they work.
Digital Twin Adoption Accelerator
🇬🇧Catapult Network · United Kingdom
Funds a UK technology SME and its industry partner adopting digital twin technology through an Innovate UK grant delivered by Digital Catapult.
DIHI Annual Request for Applications (Innovation Projects)
🇺🇸DIHI · United States
Funds Duke faculty, staff, students and trainees $25,000 to $60,000 a year to pilot practical healthcare innovation projects inside Duke's clinical enterprise.
DR-30 -- Installation of Young Farmers
🇷🇴APIA · Romania
Pays young Romanian farmers up to 70,000 euros, fully non-refundable, to set up a holding.
Early-Stage Startup Package
🇰🇷KISED · South Korea
Supports young Korean startups with commercialization funding and mentorship during early commercialization and customer validation.
Economic Assistance Grant
🇺🇸Go Utah / GOEO · United States
Supports Utah businesses in targeted industries with competitive grants for projects that build jobs and local economic opportunity.
Elevate Vermont — SBIR/STTR Matching Grant
🇺🇸ACCD · United States
Funds Vermont federal award recipients with matching support for commercialization planning and market launch execution.
Emergent Ventures
🇺🇸Mercatus Center · United States
Invests in founders and thinkers whose ideas could create outsized technological progress and societal impact.
EPIC Prize Round 3 – Phase 1
🇺🇸DOE OTC · United States
Awarded $150,000 each to up to 20 incubators supporting U.S. energy startups.
ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BICs)
ESA · Global / Multinational
Gives space startups €50,000 in equity-free funding plus ESA technical support.
EUDIS Business Accelerator
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports defense startups through EU cohorts, providing vouchers and coaching for growth.
Evergreen Manufacturing Growth Grants
🇺🇸WA Commerce · United States
Funds Washington state for-profit manufacturers scaling advanced manufacturing, clean energy, aerospace, or hydrogen technology through WA Commerce grants.
Export Market Development Grant (EMDG)
🇦🇺Austrade · Australia
Reimburses Australian businesses for a share of their eligible marketing and promotion spend when they sell or plan to sell products overseas.
Export Market Development Grants (EMDG)
🇦🇺Austrade · Australia
Pays Australian exporters and their representative bodies between $20,000 and $80,000 a year in matched funding to market and promote their goods and services in international markets, with the maximum set by their export-readiness tier.
FAST Partnership Program
🇺🇸SBA · United States
Supports state and regional programs increasing small business federal research proposal volumes and award rates.
First Nations Clean Energy Advice Grants — Round 1
🇦🇺DCCEEW · Australia
Administers research teams and institutions for First Nations Clean Energy Advice Grants in energy systems and climate technology.
FRIPRO — Radical Research Ideas (Early Career Scientists)
🇳🇴RCN · Norway
Funds early-career Norwegian researchers exploring radical ideas through short high-risk experimental grants.
Frontiers in Research Summits
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M faculty summits that connect researchers and trigger new collaborative science initiatives.
FSTI RegTech Grant
🇸🇬MAS · Singapore
Supports small Singapore financial firms strengthening compliance and risk systems through MAS assistance.
FuzeHub Commercialization Competition
🇺🇸FuzeHub · United States
Awards New York State manufacturing and technology startups up to $150,000 through FuzeHub's annual Commercialization Competition pitch event.
FWF 1000 Ideas Programme — Next
🇦🇹FWF · Austria
Funds idea-stage exploratory research projects through selective, competitive seed mechanisms.
Gilhuly Accelerator Fund
🇺🇸Duke OTC · United States
Backs research teams and institutions for Gilhuly Accelerator Fund in biotechnology, medical technology, and hardware.