Semiconductors grants in South Korea

Between cycles

Funds Korean startups solving defined technology problems with large companies and public institutions.

Closed

Supports foreign-founded startups entering Korea with market localization and expansion assistance.

Closed

Funds Korean micro-enterprises turning proven export demand into products, brands, certifications, and overseas sales.

Gives free mentoring and pitch coaching to international student founders building in Korea.

Closed

Funds high-growth Korean technology companies scaling overseas, raising global capital, and preparing for public markets.

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Provides collateral-light access to bank financing in Korea through technology-based credit guarantees for innovative startups and small businesses.

Open

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

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.

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

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Offers United Arab Emirates investors and strategic startups with growth capital and partnership options across technology and energy.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

Open

Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

Open

Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.