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 577-600 of 770 grants
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)
Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.
High-Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) Prize
🇺🇸Office of Electricity · United States
Awards $200,000 in cash for new technology that strengthens the U.S. power grid.
HRC Explorer Grants
🇳🇿HRC · New Zealand
Funds New Zealand health research ideas across biomedical, clinical, behavioural, social, and public health fields.
iDEX DISC 12 (Re-Open) - IAF
🇮🇳iDEX · India
Funds Indian MSMEs, startups and individual innovators up to Rs 1.5 crore to solve an Indian Air Force helicopter landing-system challenge.
iDEX Open Challenge
🇮🇳iDEX · India
Pays Indian startups and MSMEs up to ₹1.5 crore to pitch defence and aerospace technology.
IH-MIE Open Call 2026
🇪🇺IH-MIE · European Union
Funds SME-led hydrogen mobility projects moving from prototype to market-ready technology.
India-Canada Collaborative Industrial Research & Development Programme 2025
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds joint India-Canada industrial R&D projects with a grant up to INR 1.5 crore per project.
India-Sweden Collaborative Industrial Research & Development Programme 2025
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds joint India-Sweden R&D on the green transition in steel and cement, up to Rs150 lakhs.
Industrial Energy Storage Systems Prize — Phase 2
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Funds teams advancing cost-effective industrial energy storage concepts through a proof-of-concept prototype stage of a DOE prize challenge.
Industry 4.0 and High Value Manufacturing Kick-Start Activities
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays up to EUR60K, no equity taken, for space-enabled smart-factory ideas.
INNOSTART - Call 2
🇵🇱NCBR · Poland
Grants first-time Innovation Coach graduates up to PLN 320,000 for their first R&D project.
Innova Región — Tarapacá (Regional Innovation)
🇨🇱CORFO · Chile
Backs Chilean businesses developing and validating new products and services in the Tarapacá region.
Innovate for Impact Challenge
World Food Prize · United States
Awards $50,000 to the top early-stage AgTech startup pitching at the Borlaug Dialogue.
Innovating Distributed Embedded Energy Prize (InDEEP)
WPTO · United States
Pays teams up to $200,000 to develop new materials that convert ocean wave motion into electricity.
Innovation Award 2026
Vogt & Paap · Switzerland
Awards €15,000 in prize money plus up to €75,000 in support to sustainable-innovation startups.
Innovation Clusters (Innovatieclusters)
🇧🇪VLAIO · Belgium
Supports the VLAIO Innovatieve Bedrijfsnetwerken program that connects Flemish enterprise consortia and co-finances collaborative innovation clusters.
Integrated Applications for Microgrids in Developing Economies
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Fully funds feasibility studies on satellite-based microgrid management for developing economies.
International Digital Technical Standards Grant Scheme 2026-29: Improving Proficiency, Capacity and Participation
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Funding for digital technical standards learning, participation and capability.
ISIF Asia Digital Inclusion Grants 2026
APNIC Foundation · Australia
Funds Asia-Pacific digital inclusion projects with grants of $20K to $75K.
ITAC CFP Round 40 — Product Development Projects
🇪🇬ITIDA · Egypt
Funds Egyptian and Spanish firms in co-funded ICT product development.
Junior and Senior Research Project
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds Flemish research projects by universities in foundational science and engineering.
K-Micro-Enterprise Initiative
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds Korean micro-enterprises turning proven export demand into products, brands, certifications, and overseas sales.
K-Startup Grand Challenge
🇰🇷KISED · South Korea
Offers foreign-founded startups a flagship pathway to enter Korea with acceleration, mentoring, and growth-focused market support.
K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC)
MSS · South Korea
Runs a nine-month, government-backed accelerator that helps foreign-founded startups enter and scale in Korea, with prize money for the top 20 teams and further commercialisation grants for the top 8.