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 770 grants
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.
Call for Climate Solutions 2026
🇮🇳C-CAMP CoE Climate · India
Offered up to INR 50 lakh and incubation to Indian climate-tech startups.
Career Development Awards
🇺🇸CCF · United States
Funds research teams and institutions for Career Development Awards in biotechnology and medical technology.
Caregiver AI Challenge Phase 1 — Track 1
🇺🇸Administration for Community L · United States
Funds United States teams designing AI tools that support caregivers through ACL's Caregiver AI Challenge.
Caregiver AI Challenge Phase 1 — Track 2
🇺🇸Administration for Community L · United States
Funds United States teams designing AI tools that strengthen the direct-care workforce through ACL's Caregiver AI Challenge.
CASSINI Challenges 2026
🇪🇺EUSPA · European Union
Pays EU space startups €100,000 each to turn Galileo, Copernicus or GOVSATCOM data into products.
CASSINI Challenges Prize Contest 2026
🇪🇺EUSPA · European Union
Pays a fixed €100,000 prize to each of 12 winning EU space-tech applicants.
Catalyst 2024
🇺🇸CTIA Foundation · United States
Pays early-stage social entrepreneurs building mobile-first solutions that address challenges facing American communities.
cATalyst Startup Acceleration Programme
🇮🇳ATF · India
Funds up to Rs. 50 lakh, equity-free, for assistive-tech startups serving disabled users.
CDI Propel Carbontech
CTV · United States
Funds external research teams developing early carbon capture and carbon-use technology.
CFF Clinical Fellowship Awards
🇺🇸CFF · United States
Supports physicians pursuing advanced cystic fibrosis clinical and research fellowships through dedicated education or investigation pathways.
CFF LEAPP-ACE CF Fellowship
🇺🇸CFF · United States
Supports fellowship pathways for cystic fibrosis researchers advancing translational patient-focused studies.
CFF Postdoc-to-Faculty Transition Awards
🇺🇸CFF · United States
Supports physicians and scientists moving from postdoctoral roles into independent academic careers.
CFF PTAC Research Grant
🇺🇸CFF · United States
Backs research teams and institutions for CFF PTAC Research Grant in biotechnology, synthetic biology, and medical technology.
Chancellor's Innovation Fund
🇺🇸NC State ORC · United States
Gives NC State faculty, PhD students, and postdocs up to $96,500 a year, split between research funding and commercialisation support, to move NC State-owned technology toward licensing or investment.
Circular Economy & Social Impact Programme for Entrepreneurship Support Organisations
🇮🇳IKEA Foundation · Netherlands
Pays ESOs in India and Kenya up to EUR 50,000 to run a circular-economy entrepreneur programme.
Circular Economy Kick-Start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month study, up to 60,000 euros, for circular-economy ideas using space data.
Clinical Research Training Scholarship in ALS
🇺🇸ALS Association · United States
Supports clinician-scientists pursuing ALS studies through dedicated scholarship funding to strengthen real-world implementation.
Co-created Innovations for a Competitive Food Sector and Sustainable Transitions
🇸🇪Formas · Sweden
Funds Swedish food companies co-creating food-sector innovations with academic partners.
Collaborative Seed Grants
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M interdisciplinary faculty collaborations focused on high-risk, high-impact cross-domain research.
Commercial Climate Services
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for commercial services that respond to climate change.
Commercialization Competition
🇺🇸FuzeHub · United States
Awards up to $150,000 in cash paid out via a SAFE or convertible note to New York State manufacturing and technology companies that pitch how they'll take an existing prototype to market.
Complement-ARIE Challenge
🇺🇸NIH Common Fund · United States
Pays up to $50,000 each to 20 teams building human-based alternatives to animal testing.
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.