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Advanced Manufacturing grants in China

Explore Advanced Manufacturing grants for companies in China. This list brings together funding for additive manufacturing, automation, digital factories and industrial innovation from Chinese innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in China, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Advanced Manufacturing in China come first.

Showing 25-48 of 69 grants

Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) logo
Closed

AI:360 Global Startup Competition 2026

XTC · United States

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

AIEnergy Tech+6
CEMEX Ventures logo
Closed

Construction Startup Competition

CEMEX Ventures · Mexico

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

Built EnvironmentClimate Tech+1
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
Hello Tomorrow logo
Closed

Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)

Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational

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

AerospaceHardware+8
€20K – €100K
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
Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), South Korea logo
Closed

K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC)

MSS · South Korea

Runs a nine-month, government-backed accelerator that helps foreign-founded startups enter and scale in Korea, with prize money for the top 20 teams and further commercialisation grants for the top 8.

Advanced ManufacturingSemiconductors+4
₩5M – ₩100M
Michigan Strategic Fund logo
Closed

Make It In Michigan Mobility Prototyping Grant

MSF · United States

Funds companies developing mobility technology across air, ground and sea, with emphasis on autonomous systems and critical domestic supply-chain components.

MobilityEnergy Tech+1
$100K
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency logo
Closed

RF Architectures Applying Photonic Timing and Routing (RAAPTR)

DARPA · United States

Funds three to five teams from a $58 million pool to build defense-grade RF systems that use optical timing instead of conventional microwave generation.

DefenseAerospace+3
South Summit logo
Open

South Summit Brazil Startup Competition

South Summit · Spain

Offers pitch time, mentoring and investor exposure to five category-winning startups.

Dec'26
Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts logo
Open

Tufts New Ventures Competition

Derby E-Center · United States

Awards up to $250,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to Tufts-affiliated founders.

$3K – $20KFeb'27
Datadog Inc. logo
Open

Datadog for Open Source Projects

Datadog Inc. · United States

Offers qualifying open-source projects free full Datadog access to support monitoring and reliability operations.

Founders Factory logo
Open

Founders Factory

Founders Factory · United Kingdom

Provides venture studio support, go-to-market coaching, and startup growth services through cohort engagement.

£250K – £1M
European Commission logo
Scheduled

MSCA Staff Exchanges 2027

European Commission · European Union

Funds secondments of staff between partner organisations worldwide so researchers and R&I staff gain cross-sector, cross-country and cross-discipline experience.

Apr'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027

European Commission · European Union

Pays a postdoctoral researcher's fellowship at a host organisation in Europe, or abroad with a mandatory return phase, to build international research experience.

Sep'27
ICEX Invest in Spain logo
Between cycles

Rising UP in Spain 2026

🇪🇸ICEX · Spain

Backs startups setting up and scaling their business in Spain.

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
ASML logo
Between cycles

ASML Emerging Innovator Award

ASML · Netherlands

Offers breakthrough hardware startups coaching and up to €4,000 in travel support.

€4K
Amazon Web Services logo
Between cycles

AWS Activate Founders Package

AWS · United States

Offers early-stage founders startup credits for compute on AWS so teams can prototype and launch without immediate spend.

$100K
Amazon Web Services logo
Between cycles

AWS Activate Portfolio Package

AWS · United States

Offers provider-backed startups additional AWS startup credits for advanced architecture, deployment, and customer growth through the portfolio program.

$200K
Datadog Inc. logo
Between cycles

Datadog for Startups

Datadog Inc. · United States

Offers Series A or earlier technology startups free Datadog observability and security credits for one year.

$100K
Cisco and Global Citizen logo
Between cycles

Global Citizen Prize: Cisco Youth Leadership Award

Cisco & Global Citizen · United States

Awards $250,000 a year to an 18-30 tech innovator fighting extreme poverty.

$250K
University of Arkansas (Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation) logo
Between cycles

Heartland Challenge Startup Competition

UArk OEI · United States

Awards up to $40,000 to student-owned startup ventures pitching like a VC round.

$40K
Hult Prize Foundation logo
Between cycles

Hult Prize

Hult Prize · United States

Awards $1 million in seed funding to the winning student-led startup each year.

$1M
Lightcone Infrastructure logo
Between cycles

Lightcone Commons Grant Round

Lightcone · United States

Funds cost-effective projects — nonprofit or for-profit — recommended by evaluators to a pool of major donors.

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