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IoT & Edge grants in Canada

Explore IoT & Edge grants for companies in Canada. This list brings together funding for connected devices, sensor networks, edge AI and industrial IoT 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 IoT & Edge in Canada come first.

Showing 73-96 of 224 grants

UK Defence Innovation (formerly DASA) logo
Open

Defence Rapid Impact

UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom

Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.

DefenseAI+9
£350K
Qatar Foundation / Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) logo
Open

Qatar Open Innovation Challenge Grant

QNRF · Qatar

Funds innovators piloting solutions for Qatar-based entities through Qatar Open Innovation challenge grants.

AIMedtech+4
$100K
28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) logo
Open

EIT Digital Open Innovation Factory

28DIGITAL · European Union

Funds European digital startups at TRL 4-5 seeking co-development with industry partners through EIT Digital's open innovation matching platform.

AIBiotech+10
UK Defence Innovation (formerly DASA) logo
Between cycles

Open Call for Innovation

UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom

Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

DefenseAI+11
Department of the Army logo
Between cycles

National Security Hackathon (by Army xTech)

Army · United States

Awards $50,000 in cash prizes to top teams at a national-security hackathon backed by the US Army.

DefenseCybersecurity+2
$4K – $20K
Advanced Research and Invention Agency logo
Closed

ARIA Forecasting Tipping Points

ARIA · United Kingdom

Funds climate tipping-point early-warning work through ARIA's Scoping Our Planet programme.

Climate TechAI+1
U.S. Department of Agriculture logo
Closed

Assisting Specialty Crop Exports: Low Oxygen Storage and Packaging Systems for U.S. Tree Nuts with Phytosanitary Traceability

USDA · United States

Funds tech that verifies low-oxygen storage conditions so U.S. tree nut exports clear other countries' pest rules.

Food TechAgritech+1
$2M
YPF logo
Closed

Autonomous Systems for Customer Experience, Safety, and Operations at YPF Full-Black store

YPF · Argentina

Awards a $20,000 pilot to autonomous tech for retail service, security or monitoring.

RoboticsAI+1
$20K
Department of National Defence Canada logo
Closed

Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox

DND Canada · Canada

Funds counter-UAS prototype developers competing for IDEaS Sandbox monetary prizes.

DefenseAerospace+3
Gates Foundation logo
Closed

Grand Challenges — Ultralow-Cost Diagnostics and Screening for Low-Income Countries

Gates Foundation · United States

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.

BiotechMedtech+6
$300K – $1M
Japan Science and Technology Agency logo
Closed

JST GSC Initiative: International Research Program

JST · Japan

Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.

AIBiotech+7
European Space Agency logo
Closed

Novel Internet of Things Services Using Space Capabilities

ESA · Global / Multinational

Fully funds feasibility studies on space-enabled Internet of Things services.

IoT & EdgeSpace
€150K
YPF logo
Closed

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.

Energy TechIoT & Edge+1
$20K
XPRIZE Foundation logo
Closed

XPRIZE Wildfire Track B: Autonomous Wildfire Response

XPRIZE · United States

Pays a $3.5 million Grand Prize (plus milestone and bonus prizes from a $5 million pool) to the team whose autonomous system detects and fully suppresses a high-risk wildfire fastest.

Climate TechRobotics+1
$3.5M
European Commission logo
Open

MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

Nov'26
European Institute of Innovation and Technology logo
Open

European Prize for Women Innovators

🇪🇺EIT · European Union

Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

€20K – €100KDec'26
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Pillar II: Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.

€2M – €4MMar'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Pillar III: Promoting public engagement in R&I and scientific literacy

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds consortia running youth science-engagement programmes or researcher-public dialogue events under one of two chosen tracks to boost trust in science.

€1MMar'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Pillar III: Science comes to town 2029

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds a group of 3-6 cities to jointly run a year-long 'Science comes to town' public-engagement programme, including the EUCYS and EU TalentOn competitions.

€6MMar'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2027

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds part of the cost of talent-recruitment programmes that give postdoctoral researchers a two-phase path to a stable research career in Europe.

Apr'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

MSCA COFUND 2027

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds part of the cost of running new or existing doctoral training programmes at universities and research organisations.

Apr'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Deploying circular systemic solutions through living labs in cities and regions (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative topic)

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds city and regional authorities to run living labs that scale up circular-economy solutions across Europe.

€5MApr'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

MSCA and Citizens 2027

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds European Researchers' Night events and Researchers at Schools visits that bring MSCA-funded scientists face to face with the public and pupils.

€100K – €350KJun'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – development of complementarities, synergies and/or integration between a set of pan-European research infrastructures

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds complementary services, synergies and integration across Europe’s major research infrastructures.

€2M – €5MJun'27

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