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 457-480 of 734 grants
EIT Health Headstart
🇪🇺EIT Health · European Union
Offers European health founders early support from EIT Health through mentorship, networks, and commercialization guidance.
Israel IIA Startup Fund Pre-Seed
🇮🇱IIA · Israel
Funds Israeli pre-seed startups with early capital for first experiments and customer discovery.
New Hampshire R&D Tax Credit (against BPT)
🇺🇸NH DRA · United States
Supports New Hampshire companies through state tax credits for innovation programs.
Techstars Spring Accelerator
Techstars · United States
Provides startup founders in the Techstars Spring cohort with accelerator mentorship, peer network, and optional investment introductions.
Together AI Startup Accelerator
Together AI · United States
Offers Together AI Startup Accelerator in-kind compute credits for AI startups across fine tuning and deployment.
Eurostars-3 Session 9 — Bulgarian NIF Co-funding
🇧🇬Bulgarian Ministry of Innovati · United Kingdom
Funds Bulgarian companies to join international consortia for commercialization-ready technology.
AWS Imagine Grant (US) — One
🇺🇸AWS · United States
Funds United States nonprofits using cloud and AI for social-good projects.
AWS Imagine Grant (UK) — One
🇬🇧AWS · United States
Funds United Kingdom charities using cloud services and artificial intelligence for social benefit programs.
CITEC Innovation Awards
Rice OoI / Rice 360 / BME · United States
Funds NIH-eligible teams refining and testing point-of-care cancer diagnostics through six- or twelve-month subawards.
Innovate UK Venture Builder Pilot
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom university spin-outs in frontier AI, engineering biology, and advanced materials manufacturing.
NASA SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses conducting early-stage R&D to establish the feasibility of innovations aligned with NASA mission priorities.
NASA STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their research institution partners conducting early-stage space technology R&D through NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer program.
'Proof of market' to improve valorisation and commercialisation of Horizon generated R&I results
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to 25 small consortia EUR 200,000 each to test the commercial exploitation potential of results that already came out of earlier Horizon Europe or Horizon 2020 Cluster 4 projects.
2025 NIA Start-Up Challenge and Accelerator
🇺🇸NIA · United States
Awards up to $75,000 and a 5-month accelerator to entrepreneurs building aging-research startups.
3D Solar Visibility Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Awards up to $250,000 to teams building tools that make distributed solar generation visible.
5G/6G Services Kick-Start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays companies up to 60,000 EUR to test space-enabled 5G/6G service ideas.
A2A Life Ventures – Patented Solutions
A2A · Italy
Pays $30,000 to $50,000 for already-patented clean-tech products or technologies in energy transition and the circular economy, in exchange for the IP.
Advance Queensland Private Sector Pathways Program
🇦🇺QLD Government · Australia
Funds Queensland small and medium enterprises running co-funded innovation trials with corporate partners.
Advanced Cybersecurity Technology (ACT) 1 Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays cash prizes and technical assistance to utilities that harden their cybersecurity.
Ag Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸AFBF · United States
Awards US agriculture startups up to $100,000 in a national pitch competition for rural innovation, backed by $145,000 in total prize funds.
AI & AgriTech Innovation Center - Track 2: Pilot & Validation
🇮🇳Maha Agri-AI Center · India
Funds field pilots of AI-driven agriculture solutions in Maharashtra, up to Rs 2 Cr.
AI Challenge Competition #2
🇪🇺AI-BOOST · European Union
Funds AI teams building generative-AI tools for clinical-dataset enhancement or automotive crash-test case generation, paying up to €100,000 in prizes after an initial €28,500 concept-stage award.
AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge — Phase I (Seed Concepts)
🇺🇸Bezos Earth Fund · United States
Supports AI teams tackling climate and nature problems, including biodiversity and grid efficiency, through Bezos-backed concept grants.
AI for Industry Challenge
Intrinsic · United States
Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.