AI grants in Switzerland
Explore AI grants for companies in Switzerland. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from Swiss innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Switzerland, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in Switzerland come first.
Showing 169-192 of 435 grants
InnoBooster
🇨🇭GRS · Switzerland
Funds Swiss deep-tech university spin-offs already in Venture Kick with up to CHF 150,000.
SERI Bilateral Joint Research Projects — Seed
🇨🇭SERI · Switzerland
Supports Swiss and partner-country researchers through SERI bilateral projects for cross-border collaboration.
SERI Leading House Pilot Activities — Seed
🇨🇭SERI · Switzerland
Provides SERI Leading House pilot support for new research collaboration with LATAM, MENA, Africa, and Asia.
Initial Coaching
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Offers Swiss start-ups a CHF 10,000 coaching voucher to test and refine their business.
Innosuisse Eurostars Q1 cut-off
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Funds international collaborative research and innovation projects led by innovative small and medium-sized companies.
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships Cohort
🇨🇭SERI · Switzerland
Provides research mobility support for foreign early-career researchers in Switzerland through SERI scholarship pathways.
Swiss Accelerator
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Funds Swiss SMEs and start-ups already on the market to commercialise and scale innovation projects through Innosuisse direct grants.
Swiss Innovation Challenge
🇨🇭SIC · Switzerland
Pays CHF 30,000 plus in-kind support to a standout Swiss innovation project.
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.