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 481-504 of 698 grants
DDWS Innovation Challenge 2025-26
🇮🇳DDWS · India
Pays up to INR 3 lakh for rural water-testing and sanitation innovations.
Deep Tech CEE Challenge 2026
🇵🇱Deep Tech Summit · Poland
Awards up to €5,000 and investor access to deep-tech startups that make its finals.
DeepStart
🇦🇺Trailblazer · Australia
Gives Australian deep tech teams a $5,000 grant plus access to a $500,000 funding pool.
Digital Innovation in Food Processing Award
WFF · Italy
Pays at least $7,500 to startups making food processing more sustainable and efficient.
Dream Biology Award
IOCB Prague · Czechia
Pays a €10,000 cash prize to an early-career biologist with a bold research vision.
Drone in a Box Challenge
EDGE · United Arab Emirates
Pays a guaranteed $15,000 first prize for an integrated autonomous drone-docking system.
DST NIDHI Seed Support (SS) Program
🇮🇳Agri Innovation Hub · India
Provides up to Rs. 40 lakh, equity-free, to agritech startups already incubated at AgHub.
Early Dawn Program
🇯🇵JST · Japan
Funds Japan-based venture builders turning university research into deep-tech startups.
ECDI - Dual-Use Drones Innovative Programme
🇪🇺ECDI · European Union
Pays manufacturing SMEs equity-free grants to advance a dual-use drone product by at least one technology readiness level.
EFCSN Temporary Call for Protection Grants
🇪🇺EFCSN · France
Pays fact-checking organisations up to €20,000 to cover urgent safety and legal threats.
EIT Food Education Start-up Award
EIT Food · European Union
Pays up to 10 startups €4,000 each if they came out of an EIT Food Education programme.
EIT Jumpstarter (EIT Health)
🇪🇺EIT Health · European Union
Supports pre acceleration programme with prizes and mentorship for early stage healthcare innovators across Europe.
EIT Jumpstarter 2025
EIT · European Union
Runs a free, equity-free pre-accelerator for early-stage innovators across emerging Europe, with EUR150,000 in cash prizes for cohort and regional winners.
EIT Manufacturing BoostUp! 2022
🇪🇺EIT Manufacturing · European Union
Awards €20,000 cash prizes to startups already piloted with big manufacturing corporates.
EIT Raw Materials Business Idea Competition
🇪🇺EIT RawMaterials · European Union
Awards up to €10,000 for winning raw-materials business ideas from individuals and startups.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) on Social Innovation at IPTIF
🇮🇳IPTIF · India
Pays a monthly stipend plus up to INR 2.5 lakh in grants to social-impact founders.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence Programme (EiR)
🇮🇳IITTNiF · India
Pays up to INR 30,000 a month for 12 months to first-time geospatial-tech founders.
ERC Public Engagement with Research Award
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Awards ERC grant holders up to EUR 10,000 for outstanding public engagement with their ERC-funded research.
ESD Okayama Award 2026
Okayama City · Japan
Awards $3,000 to one or two Education for Sustainable Development projects that any organization worldwide has run for at least three years.
Excelium-SINE DeepTech Innovation Grant Program
🇮🇳Excelium · India
Grants Indian deep-tech startups up to INR 20 lakh for product development and validation.
FCT Mobility
🇵🇹FCT · Portugal
Funds Portuguese research mobility projects through grants supporting researcher and institutional mobility activities.
Feeder of the Future Prize
🇺🇸Office of Electricity · United States
Pays US grid innovators up to $8,000 for next-generation electric feeder designs.
FFG Eco-Cheque
🇦🇹FFG · Austria
Supports Austrian small businesses and non profits with small grants for pilot environmental technology projects and solution testing.
Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award
WFF · Global / Multinational
Pays youth-led agrifood startups at least $7,500 to fight malnutrition and food insecurity.