Grants under $50K
Explore grants with an award under $50,000. This directory lists small awards, innovation vouchers, travel and training support and prize money for early-stage companies, researchers and students, from public programs, foundations and corporate initiatives, with the deadline and eligibility on every listing.
Showing 409-432 of 698 grants
Womenpreneur For Bharat
🇮🇳PIEDS · India
Backs women-led startups in smaller Indian cities with up to ₹15 lakh in funding plus mentorship, incubation and strategic support.
Wusool Transportation Support
🇸🇦HRDF (Hadaf) · Saudi Arabia
Provides Saudi employees with transport support through subsidized daily commute costs for integrated ride platforms.
XCITE Rural Business Incubation Programme
🇮🇳NABARD · India
Backs rural entrepreneurs in eastern India with mentorship and a milestone-linked grant up to ₹5 lakh.
Yale Innovators Prize
🇺🇸Yale · United States
Awards a $25,000 cash prize to the most creative Yale venture with no other fitting prize.
Young EDGE — Round 27
🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom
Supports Scottish companies led by young directors through a grant-only path in the Young EDGE category for early business development.
Business Oregon Export Promotion Grant (OTPP)
🇺🇸Business Oregon · United States
Funds Oregon small businesses with reimbursement grants of up to $7,500 for export-related activities including international trade shows and trade missions.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)/27 Cohort
Creative Destruction Lab · Canada
Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.
Georgia FAST Grant Phase 0
🇺🇸UGA Innovation Gateway · United States
Funds Georgia-based small businesses hiring a grant writing consultant to prepare a competitive SBIR or STTR application.
Michigan State Trade Expansion Program (MI-STEP)
🇺🇸MSF · United States
Funds Michigan small businesses pursuing export growth through pre-approved trade reimbursements.
NJ AI Hub Accelerator
🇺🇸NJEDA · United States
Supports New Jersey AI founders through accelerator, pilot partnerships, and ecosystem access across research institutions and startups.
Notion for Startups
🇺🇸Notion · United States
Offers Notion startup credits to support knowledge systems and collaboration for founders.
2025 "$100,000 Start an SUD Startup" Challenge
🇺🇸NIDA · United States
Pays teams up to $10,000 each, plus six months of biotech mentoring, for drug-use research ideas.
2026 Global Quantum + AI Challenge
TQI · Canada
Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.
2026 Pump Priming Call
🇬🇧Edge AI Hub · United Kingdom
Funds £10k, up-to-12-month interdisciplinary Edge AI research projects at Newcastle's hub.
2026 Schneider Go Green Challenge
Schneider Electric · France
Pays student teams up to €6,000 to design a locally-buildable clean energy solution that solves a real community's energy access, efficiency or reliability problem.
28DIGITAL Venture Incubation Program
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.
4YFN Awards
GSMA · United Kingdom
Awards up to €20,000 cash and global stage exposure to the top digital startup at Barcelona's 4YFN.
8th Open Challenge Program (OCP)
🇮🇳EP-BBSR · India
Offers seed funding and incubation support to India's ESDM startups.
A2A Life Ventures – Non-Patented Concepts
A2A · Italy
Pays $10,000 to $15,000 for promising non-patented clean-tech startup ideas in energy transition and the circular economy, with a chance to join A2A's venture-building program.
A2A Life Ventures – Patentable Solutions
A2A · Italy
Pays $20,000 to $30,000 for patentable clean-tech products or processes in energy transition and the circular economy, in exchange for the exclusive right once filed.
Academia Sinica Scholar Award (ASSA)
🇹🇼Academia Sinica · Taiwan
Supports Taiwan researchers with structured pathways in early-career academic excellence awards, from planning to deployment.
Accelerating Foundation Models Research (AFMR)
Microsoft · United States
Funds academic researchers globally through Azure compute and model API credits for AI alignment, safety, and scientific discovery.
ACHEMA Start-up Award
DECHEMA · Germany
Awards 15,000 Euro plus exhibition space and mentoring to the winning early-stage company at the ACHEMA Start-up Award 2027, for new ventures in chemistry, process engineering or biotechnology.
Adam Smith Fellowship
🇺🇸Mercatus Center · United States
Offers full-time fellowship support for scholars exploring foundational questions in economics and policy.