AI grants in India
Explore AI grants for companies in India. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from Indian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in India, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in India come first.
Showing 121-144 of 284 grants
Scheme for Assistance for Start Ups/Innovation (Gujarat)
🇮🇳Gujarat Industries Dept · India
Funds Gujarat startups up to ₹50 lakh across seed, social-impact and acceleration tracks.
Startup Srujan Seed Support (S4) – Cohort 3
🇮🇳i-Hub Gujarat · India
Funds Gujarat student and startup prototypes with ₹2.5-10 lakh grants to reach market.
Startup World Cup 2026 — Bangalore Regional
🇮🇳Pegasus · United States
Lets Bangalore-based founders pitch for a spot at the global Startup World Cup Grand Finale in Silicon Valley, where the ultimate winner receives a ₹9.3 crore investment award with no equity taken.
Sustenance Allowance (Scheme for Assistance for Start Ups/Innovation, Gujarat)
🇮🇳Gujarat Industries Dept · India
Funds Gujarat startups up to ₹30 lakh for prototyping, market research and event costs.
TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) Scheme
🇮🇳IIMV FIELD · India
Awards up to INR 4 lakh in grants plus a year of incubation to India-based tech startups.
SIDBI Fund of Funds for Startups (FFS)
🇮🇳SIDBI (Small Industries Develo · India
Funds India's startup ecosystem indirectly by committing government-backed capital to qualified fund managers in a mother fund structure.
Stand-Up India Scheme
🇮🇳SIDBI (Small Industries Develo · India
Supports socially underrepresented founders in India with blended term and working capital loans for new greenfield enterprises.
Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab
Arduino · Global / Multinational
Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.
2026 Global Quantum + AI Challenge
TQI · Global / Multinational
Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge 2026
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
NIST · United States
Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
NIA R01: Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease
NIA · United States
Funds researchers combining computational and experimental approaches to test repositioned drugs for Alzheimer's disease treatment through NIH R01 grants.
Revision Applications for Validation of Biomarker Assays Developed Through NIH-Supported Research Grants
NIH · United States
Funds an addition to an existing NIH grant, to take a cancer biomarker assay from working in the lab to working in the clinic.
Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
NIH · United States
Funds the enhancement of a cancer informatics tool that has cleared prototyping, shows real promise, and has not yet been widely adopted.
Model-to-Clinic (M2C) for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI)
NIH · United States
Funds the move of an imaging-centred multimodal AI tool from a trained and tested prototype towards real clinical use, as regulated device software.
PRIMED-AI: Data-to-Model Academic-Industrial Partnerships (D2M-AIP) for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data
NIH · United States
Funds a company and an academic team to build and test an imaging-centred multimodal AI decision tool, developed as software that is a medical device.
Sustained Support for Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
NIH · United States
Funds the running costs and continued relevance of a cancer informatics tool that researchers already depend on.
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.
Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds new analysis of clinical, genomic, environmental and registry data that already exists, to sharpen who is at risk of cancer and what happens to them.
Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the same reanalysis of already-collected cancer data on a smaller, exploratory footing, for teams that do not need a full research project award.