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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EPA SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸EPA · United States
Supports small United States businesses developing environmental technology solutions in water, air, pollution prevention, and chemical safety.
ERC Proof of Concept Grants 2025
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to test the commercial or social potential of their funded research.
ESITIP — Egyptian-Spanish IT Innovation Program
🇪🇬ITIDA · Egypt
Supports Egyptian and Spanish firms in joint innovation for digital solutions and market access.
EUDIS Cascade Funding — BATTLEVERSE Project
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds small businesses developing defense training and simulation technologies through small innovation grants.
European Defence Fund Cofinancing — #1
🇱🇹Inovacijų Agentūra · Lithuania
Supports Lithuanian defence technology projects by covering national co-financing requirements for European Defence Fund initiatives.
European Innovation Procurement Awards
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Awards public and private buyers up to EUR 75,000 for procurement practices and strategies that drive innovation uptake across the EU.
European Prize for Women Innovators — Rising Innovators category
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women under 35 who have founded breakthrough European innovation companies.
European Prize for Women Innovators — Women Innovators category
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Pays a share of a EUR 220,000 prize to women founders of breakthrough European innovations, with no age limit.
European Social Innovation Competition
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Awards up to EUR 75,000 to early-stage social-innovation projects that tackle a different societal challenge each year.
European Startup and Scaleup Hubs pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a pan-European network of 10-18 startup and scaleup hubs that can pass on up to EUR 60,000 per deep-tech startup for cross-border scaling support.
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.
Export IT Rebate Program — Round 15
🇪🇬ITIDA · Egypt
Funds Egyptian software and IT service exporters through the Export IT Rebate Program with direct rebate support linked to international sales growth.
Financial support to access services from Ecosystem partners
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Reimburses up to EUR 60,000 in EIC Ecosystem Partner service costs — R&D infrastructure, prototyping, IP/legal support and more — to companies that already hold an EIC award.
Food Accelerator Network (FAN)
🇪🇺EIT Food · European Union
Offers EIT Food's Food Accelerator Network for agrifood startups across Europe to validate and prepare market-ready products.
Funding frontier climate tech for children's health
UNICEF Venture Fund · Global / Multinational
Offers early-stage climate-health startups up to $100,000 in equity-free funding for open-source tech.
Future Health Challenge: Building Anticipatory Health Systems through Population Sensing
Future Health · United Arab Emirates
Awards up to $300,000 in prize funding to for-profit, non-profit or hybrid teams building technology-enabled population-sensing solutions that shift health systems from reactive care toward predictive, anticipatory models.
GENAI
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies integrating generative AI into their products, services, or internal processes through a feasibility study and proof-of-concept project.
GENESIS — Sub-Track (PILOT and Matching Investment)
🇮🇳MeitY · India
Funds Indian startups through GENESIS Pilot and matching investment pathways for growth.
Global Early-Stage InsurTech Startup Competition
🇺🇸InsurTech NY · United States
Awards a $200,000 prize pool to early-stage InsurTech startups pitching in New York.
Global Oncology Young Investigator Award
Conquer Cancer · Global / Multinational
Funds global oncology junior investigators through mentored development and implementation pathways.
Global Startup Commercialization Support
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Supports foreign-founded startups entering Korea with market localization and expansion assistance.
Government Test-and-Buy Smart City
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds Korean startups demonstrating smart-city technology with public bodies and opening a route to pilot purchases.
Grand Challenges India Screening and Diagnosis Innovations
🇮🇳BIRAC · India
Funds Indian startups and R&D organizations developing infectious-disease screening and diagnosis innovations.
GREAT Scheme for Technical Textiles
🇮🇳IC IIT Patna · India
Funds Indian technical-textiles startups up to Rs. 50 lakh plus incubation and lab access.