Semiconductors grants in France

Open

Funds JCJC laureates and their teams preparing strong proposals to advance high-impact scientific careers.

Open

Funds SMEs maturing and testing technology projects with grants of up to EUR 50,000.

Open

Funds French companies carrying out high-growth R&D projects with regional grants or recoverable advances.

Open

Funds French and German collaborative companies with bilateral support for joint innovation projects.

Open

Funds overseas French SMEs industrialising or commercialising completed innovation projects with grants of EUR 20,000 to EUR 100,000.

Open

Supports French early-growth companies with a favourable tax and social relief status during early innovation growth.

Between cycles

Funds French SMEs and mid-sized companies pursuing high-uncertainty innovation with a recoverable advance.

Between cycles

Funds French small and medium enterprises focused on innovative prototyping, technology development, and pilot commercialization.

Between cycles

Offers French companies tax support that lowers the cost of qualifying innovation activity.

Closed

Funds French organizations through ANR's broad flagship call in multiple priority research themes.

Closed

Funds one organisation to run youth-led community and entrepreneurship actions across the EU's Outermost Regions.

Open

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

Open

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

Open

Invests in hardware, aerospace, and defense innovation founders through a corporate venture platform tied to Lockheed Martin.

Open

Provides Massachusetts startup teams access to advanced prototyping and fabrication through MIT.nano collaboration.

Between cycles

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

Awards up to $250,000 in Arm technology credit to the winner and $150,000 to the runner-up among early-stage semiconductor startups building Arm-based chip designs worldwide, with automatic consideration for Silicon Catalyst's own incubator.

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

Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.

Closed

Awards a $30,000 cash prize to startups collaborating with Taiwan's chip industry.

Closed

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

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.

Closed

Supports doctoral students in computing, robotics, and intelligent systems by pairing university awards with industry mentorship.