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 601-624 of 681 grants
NCATS Translational Science Education and Training Challenge
🇺🇸NCATS · United States
Awards five $10,000 prizes for standout translational-science education and training programs.
Next Startupper Award
VivaTech · France
Pays the winning student entrepreneur a €5,000 prize plus VIP passes and a Main Stage pitch slot at VivaTech in Paris.
NIA Open Innovation Grant
🇹🇭NIA · Thailand
Supports Thai small businesses through NIA Open Innovation with grants for design, prototyping, and pilot learning.
NIDHI Accelerator – Agri Focus
🇮🇳NSTEDB · India
Grants up to Rs 5 lakh to the top agri startups in an NSTEDB-backed accelerator cohort.
NIDHI PRAYAS
🇮🇳IIEC · India
Gives Indian innovators up to INR 10 lakh to build a working prototype.
North East Growth Lab 2026
🇮🇳IIMA Ventures · India
Offers grants up to INR 5 lakh plus mentoring to early-stage North East India startups.
NSTEP – Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship
🇮🇳MoA&FW · India
Pays students and research scholars up to Rs. 4 lakh for millet-based innovation projects.
Ocean Idea Challenge
🇨🇦OSP · Canada
Pays up to $8,000 to Canada-based individuals, teams and very early-stage companies who complete a milestone-based customer discovery sprint validating an ocean-sustainability idea.
One NC SBP — SBIR/STTR Phase I Incentive Funds
🇺🇸NC BSTI · United States
Supports North Carolina small businesses through One NC SBP with help covering early proposal costs for government innovation awards.
Open Challenge Program (OCP) 1.0 at SmartAgri CoE, Bhilai
🇮🇳SmartAgri CoE · India
Gives AgriTech startups up to ₹35 lakh in seed funding plus a full incubation package — lab access, mentoring and IPR support — at STPI's SmartAgri CoE in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh.
Open Idea Competition
🇩🇪hessian.AI · Germany
Pays unincorporated AI founders up to €2,500 for their startup idea pitch.
Open Innovation Challenge for Talent – SIGNs Sprint
EIT RawMaterials · European Union
Pays student and graduate teams cash prizes for pitching green-metals ideas in Amsterdam.
P2R 2026 – Incentives for Start-Up of Companies in Border Problem Areas
🇸🇮SEF · Slovenia
Pays new Slovenian companies in border regions a EUR 30,000 lump sum start-up grant.
PennCHOP Microbiome Pilot and Feasibility Grant
🇺🇸PennCHOP Microbiome · United States
Supports Penn faculty launching or expanding microbiome research through internal seed mechanisms at Penn Medicine.
Pitch & Pour: Start-Up Pitch Competition
🇺🇸Medmarc & MTEC · United States
Awards $7,500 cash to the top military-health start-up pitching at The MedTech Conference.
Power At Sea Prize
🇺🇸DOE WPTO · United States
Pays teams up to $1.5 million combined to build early-stage marine energy systems that supply reliable power at sea.
Prakriti Incubation Launchpad Cohort 2
🇮🇳PRIF · India
Pays a fellowship grant, up to Rs 15 lakh for top performers, to North-East India startups.
quantA Fellowship Call for Women
FWF · Austria
Funds two early-career female researchers with a two-year quantum-science postdoc in Austria.
Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge
🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom
Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.
Queens Tech & Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸QEDC · United States
Awards up to $20,000 each to five early-stage entrepreneurs with strong Queens ties.
RABI Program 2025 - SAHAS (Pre-Seed Stage)
🇮🇳FIED · India
Funds Indian agri-business ideas with up to Rs. 5 lakh to build and validate a prototype.
Real-time detection of Structural Modifications in Scaffolding for Oil Refinery Safety
YPF · Argentina
Pays $20,000 to pilot a real-time sensor system that detects unsafe scaffolding changes at a refinery.
Resilient Societies
🇺🇸Mercatus Center · United States
Supports resilience-focused research in United States institutions through short thematic grants for adaptation work.
RKVY-RAFTAAR Startup Agribusiness Incubation Programme (SAIP) at ABIS-TBI, TNAU Coimbatore
🇮🇳MoA&FW · India
Pays incubated agribusiness startups a grant-in-aid of up to twenty-five lakh rupees to scale a working prototype into a market-ready venture.