Grants in India

Open

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

Open

Supports job seekers through Wadhwani Skilling with free AI-assisted employability training and career pathways.

Between cycles

Funds research talent through annual fellowships for computing and artificial intelligence work.

Closed

Runs an annual Databricks customer competition for B2B pilots with opportunities for equity and cloud credits.

Closed

Funds clinical trial teams in low and middle income settings to test infectious disease interventions effectively.

Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.

Open

Supports Alzheimer’s and dementia drug development from preclinical readiness to early clinical testing across diverse modalities.

Open

Funds new biomarkers for Alzheimer's and related dementias through PET ligands, MRI, spinal fluid, and brain activity measures.

Open

Supports dementia prevention research through precision risk reduction, combination treatment testing, and effectiveness comparisons.

Pays up to $50,000 to solvers who invent a plastic-free, compostable cold-cup material.

Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.

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.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

Open

Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.

Open

Awards $1 million to one winning mental-health research team, and $250,000 each to three runners-up, developing new interventions for anxiety, depression or psychosis, worldwide.

Open

Funds a consortium to build a new EIT Label-certified micro-credentials programme teaching entrepreneurship and innovation to healthcare students.

Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.

Open

Funds a £6.25 million challenge prize for innovations that improve snakebite outcomes worldwide.

Open

Funds coordination and administrative leadership for the Extension Disaster Education Network, which helps Cooperative Extension professionals manage all-hazards risks to the US food and agriculture sector.

Pays $10,000 for a genuinely new way to verify cleanliness in under 30 minutes.

Open

Funds four centres to work out how cancer actually spreads — each on one theme, through two or three interlocking basic research projects.

Open

Supports global cancer teams through CRUK to validate novel therapeutic concepts toward patient solutions.

Open

Funds research teams building low-cost, simplified pathogen-sequencing workflows that bring the cost of sequencing a sample down to about US$1-10 for use in low- and middle-income countries.

Funds teams up to $800,000 to build cheap pathogen-sequencing workflows for poorer countries.