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 481-504 of 734 grants
AI Talent Demonstration Startup Package
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds Korean startups hiring trained AI talent to solve a defined product, service, or operating problem.
AI Venture Velocity Challenge
🇺🇸Deloitte & Midjourney · United States
Awards $175,000 in cash prizes to student teams building AI-accelerated ventures.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1
🇪🇺EU · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 to teams building a GenAI mission generator for farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1: GenAI-Based Natural Language Mission Generator for Autonomous Robots in Agriculture
🇪🇺AI-BOOST · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition (Challenges 3 and 4)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.
Alaska SBIR/STTR Matching Grant
🇺🇸AK DCCED / AIDEA · United States
Supports Alaska small businesses with federal innovation awards using state match funding to strengthen commercialization.
Alternative, Scalable Synthetic Routes for Phase II-ready Small Molecule
InnoCentive Seeker · Global / Multinational
Pays $50,000 for a scalable, low-cost synthesis route for a Phase II drug candidate.
Applied Partnership Awards — Women's Health
🇮🇪HRB (Health Research Board Ire · Ireland
Funds applied women's health research co-designed by researchers and non-academic knowledge users.
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
🇦🇺ARC · Australia
Funds three-year fellowships for early-career researchers across all disciplines except medical research with salary and project support.
ARC Future Fellowships
🇦🇺ARC · Australia
Supports four-year fellowships for mid-career researchers in non-medical disciplines aligned with national science priorities.
ARC Linkage Projects
🇦🇺ARC · Australia
Funds Australian universities and industry in co-funded projects with shared research contributions and partnership.
Arch Grants Startup Competition
Arch Grants · United States
Awards $75,000 in equity-free funding to startups that relocate to St. Louis.
ARISE-HIV LAUNCH Challenge
🇺🇸OAR · United States
Pays cash prizes for pragmatic ideas that improve access, delivery, engagement or retention of long-acting HIV care.
Assignment to Help Cool Battlefield Radios
HMGCC · United Kingdom
Funds up to $65,000 for a 12-week project to stop battlefield radios overheating.
Assignment to Help Find Hidden Objects in Walls
HMGCC · United Kingdom
Funds up to $65,000 for a 12-week demonstrator that images hidden objects in walls.
BASS — Sustainable Wetlands
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-enabled wetland and biodiversity projects that strengthen climate adaptation and ecosystem care.
BASS — University of Tomorrow
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Supports educational institutions developing space-enabled learning applications and innovation pilots.
Beatriz Galindo Grants — Attracting Research Talent (Ayudas Beatriz Galindo)
🇪🇸MICIU · Spain
Offers research teams and institutions for Ayudas Beatriz Galindo Atracción del Talento Investigador in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and climate technology.
Bilateral Collaboration Cyprus-Greece
🇬🇷GSRI · Greece
Funds Greece innovation teams building joint research across health and energy from proof to commercialization.
Bilateral Research Cooperation Québec (FRQ)
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Supports interdisciplinary fundamental research collaborations between Flemish and Quebec research teams.
Bioengineering in the Space Environment
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 200,000 euros to study bioengineering business ideas that use microgravity.
Blue Capital
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month feasibility study, up to 60,000 euros, for 'Blue Natural Capital' services.
Breakthrough Award (GPID)
GPID · Saudi Arabia
Awards $100,000 cash plus up to $200,000 in piloting to mature desalination tech.
Building Envelope Innovation Prize - Secondary Glazing Systems
🇺🇸DOE BTO · United States
Pays cash prizes across three phases to teams that build cost-effective secondary glazing inserts upgrading commercial windows without a full replacement.