Advanced Manufacturing grants in India

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Funds India's startup ecosystem indirectly by committing government-backed capital to qualified fund managers in a mother fund structure.

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Supports socially underrepresented founders in India with blended term and working capital loans for new greenfield enterprises.

Open

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.

Closed

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%.

Closed

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.

Closed

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

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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.

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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.

Open

Supports entrepreneurs through Wadhwani's Entrepreneurship Initiative with training, mentorship, and investor access.

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

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

Open

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

Pays equity-free cash prizes to exhibiting startups that pitch live on the main stage at GITEX AI Kazakhstan.

Open

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

Open

Supports registered nonprofits with in-kind software and cloud credits to strengthen mission operations.

Open

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

Between cycles

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