AI grants in Canada
Explore AI grants for companies in Canada. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from Canadian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Canada, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in Canada come first.
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Thematic Networks of Excellence for AI in Science – Agriculture and Environmental Pollution (RAISE pilot)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a European network of excellent research labs applying AI to agricultural and environmental pollution science.
Thematic Networks of Excellence for AI in Science (RAISE pilot)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a network of leading European research labs applying AI to a specific scientific field, piloting a virtual AI-in-science institute across Europe.
Towards modern, integrated, and effective fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that build AI-powered vessel-tracking and remote-sensing tools to monitor small-scale, recreational and long-distance fishing.
Transformation to trajectory-based operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds industrial research building the flight-planning and network systems needed for trajectory-based air traffic operations.
Trusted frameworks for secure and efficient data sharing in EOSC (EOSC Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds coordination projects that build data-sovereignty frameworks so European researchers can share sensitive data securely within EOSC.
Unleashing the potential and advancing the impact of the digitalization/Artificial Intelligence of the climate-neutral bio-based value chains
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI and digital-twin tools that speed up bio-based manufacturing — from biorefinery process control to predicting biosynthesis pathways.
Uptake of FAIR data management practices and of EOSC by research communities and research infrastructures (EOSC Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a project that runs cascading open-science sub-grants of EUR 100,000-250,000 to drive FAIR data practices and EOSC adoption across research communities.
Using Generative AI (GenAI4EU) for Scientific Research via EOSC
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that deploy generative AI tools across the research data lifecycle within Europe's open-science cloud.
Y Combinator Accelerator Program
🇺🇸YC · United States
Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.
Desjardins Startup Prize — Early-Stage Prize
🇨🇦UTE · Canada
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.
Desjardins Startup Prize — Later-Stage Prize
🇨🇦UTE · Canada
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.
BC Small Business Venture Capital Tax Credit
🇨🇦Province of BC · Canada
Funds private investment in British Columbia small businesses through tax-supported incentives and provincial partnership support.
Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund
🇨🇦ISED · Canada
Funds loan participation for Black Canadian entrepreneurs through mission-aligned lenders to expand growth-capable businesses.
Canada Job Grant
🇨🇦Government of Canada · Canada
Pays Canadian employers up to about $10,000 per employee toward eligible training costs when they upskill their team.
CanExport SMEs
🇨🇦GAC · Canada
Covers up to 50% of eligible export development costs for Canadian SMEs, up to a maximum of $50,000 per project.
Mayor's Innovation Challenge
🇨🇦Kingston · Canada
Gives Kingston post-secondary students up to $10,000 cash or a startup-program place through two pitch-competition prize streams for projects that improve city life or municipal services.
Canada SR&ED Federal
🇨🇦CRA · Canada
Funds Canadian companies through federal innovation tax deductions for qualifying innovation experimentation costs.
Provincial SR&ED top-ups (Ontario Quebec BC etc)
🇨🇦Provincial governments · Canada
Offers Canadian provinces extra incentives that top up federal measures for qualifying innovation activity.
Ingenious+ Youth Innovation Challenge
🇨🇦Ingenious+ · Canada
Pays Canadian youth aged 14 to 18 cash awards for innovation projects that address community, national or global challenges.
The Arena Pitch Competition
🇨🇦Metronomics · Canada
Awards Canadian student founders up to $10,000 in a national bracket-style pitch competition.
Sloan Research Fellowships
🇺🇸Sloan Foundation · United States
Funds exceptional early-career North American STEM researchers through prestigious academic fellowships.
GREGoRi Innovation Projects
NIH · United States
Funds a genuinely new experimental or computational approach to finding the cause of a rare genetic disorder, where the current state of the art falls short.
ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize · United States
Awards $2M in prizes across three tracks for open-source AI research advancing progress toward AGI.
Developing novel theory and methods for understanding the genetic architecture of complex human traits (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds theory and method development on how genetic and non-genetic factors together produce variation in complex traits, tested against large existing datasets.