Grants in India
Explore grants for companies in India. This directory includes national and regional funding 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 India come first.
Showing 289-312 of 884 grants
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.
The Audacious Project
🇺🇸Audacious Project · United States
Offers The Audacious Project invitation-only multi-issue funding for social-impact ideas with broad partner backing.
Wadhwani Entrepreneurship Initiative
🇮🇳Wadhwani · India
Supports entrepreneurs through Wadhwani's Entrepreneurship Initiative with training, mentorship, and investor access.
Wadhwani Skilling Initiative
🇮🇳Wadhwani · India
Supports job seekers through Wadhwani Skilling with free AI-assisted employability training and career pathways.
Microsoft Research Fellowship
🇺🇸Microsoft · United States
Funds research talent through annual fellowships for computing and artificial intelligence work.
Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge
🇦🇺Databricks Inc. · United States
Runs an annual Databricks customer competition for B2B pilots with opportunities for equity and cloud credits.
Wellcome Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award
🇩🇿Wellcome · United Kingdom
Funds clinical trial teams in low and middle income settings to test infectious disease interventions effectively.
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.
MICROHOME 2026
Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational
Pays up to €30,000 to architects and creatives designing a compact 25 sqm micro-home.
FY26 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Concept Award
CDMRP · United States
Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.
Xcelerate Champion of Innovation
WHX Tech · United Arab Emirates
Pays an equity-free cash prize to the top healthcare startup pitching live at WHX Tech's Xcelerate competition in Dubai.
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.
Strategic Research Agreement — Round 1
Breakthrough T1D · United States
Funds investigator-led type 1 diabetes research partnerships across preclinical discovery, treatment, and translational priorities.
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.
Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds the development and hard technical validation that turns a working cancer research technology into one other laboratories will actually adopt.
Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds proof-of-concept work on a genuinely new tool, assay, platform or instrument for characterising cancer cells or handling biospecimens.
Farm Robotics Challenge
UCANR Innovate · United States
Pays student robotics teams over $100,000 combined to build AI farming solutions.
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.
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant
NIH · United States
Funds exploratory studies of the ethical, legal and social consequences of human genetics, especially where a technology or a use of genomic data is new.
Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research
NIH · United States
Funds a full research project on the ethics, law and social effects of human genetics — and refuses to review an application with no diverse-perspectives plan.
Seamless Early-Stage Clinical Drug Development (Phase 1 to 2a) for Novel therapeutic Agents for the Spectrum of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-related Dementias (ADRD)
NIH · United States
Funds one bundled run from first-in-human through phase 2a for a dementia drug that works on something other than amyloid or tau.
DEEPSCALE Climate Tech Accelerator
Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Supports global climate deep-tech startups scaling internationally via a Chile-based accelerator.
Vancouver Tall Challenge
Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational
Awards $15,000 CAD to designers reimagining tall buildings for downtown Vancouver.