Advanced Manufacturing grants in Canada

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Funds Canadian firms in EUREKA low-carbon energy R&D consortia.

Awards University of Toronto-affiliated early-stage founders up to $15,000 CAD for a three-minute pitch, as part of an annual competition with over $100,000 in total prizes.

Awards University of Toronto-affiliated later-stage founders up to $40,000 CAD for a three-minute pitch, as part of an annual competition with over $100,000 in total prizes.

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Funds private investment in British Columbia small businesses through tax-supported incentives and provincial partnership support.

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Funds loan participation for Black Canadian entrepreneurs through mission-aligned lenders to expand growth-capable businesses.

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Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.

Pays Canadian employers up to about $10,000 per employee toward eligible training costs when they upskill their team.

Covers up to 50% of eligible export development costs for Canadian SMEs, up to a maximum of $50,000 per project.

Gives Kingston post-secondary students phased seed funding and a part-time venture-building program for projects that improve city life or municipal services.

Awards Canadian student founders up to $10,000 in a national bracket-style pitch competition.

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Funds Canadian companies through federal innovation tax deductions for qualifying innovation experimentation costs.

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Offers Canadian provinces extra incentives that top up federal measures for qualifying innovation activity.

Pays Canadian youth aged 14 to 18 cash awards for innovation projects that address community, national or global challenges.

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Funds exceptional early-career North American STEM researchers through prestigious academic fellowships.

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Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.

Pays up to $10,000 to photonics startups pitching at Photonics West 2027.

Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.

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.

Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.

Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.

Awards equity-free cash prizes and strategic investment access to ConTech startups pitching to a consortium of ten construction-industry corporate venture arms.

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Funds global teams developing innovations in protein, lipids, packaging, and manufacturing that reduce the ex-factory unit cost of ready-to-use therapeutic food by at least 30%.

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Funds global teams developing diagnostic devices and screening tools that cost approximately $1 per test or near-zero incremental cost per person screened for deployment in low-income countries.

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Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.