Cybersecurity grants in the United Kingdom

Between cycles

Supports women founders with a focused programme of mentorship and investor readiness for startup growth.

Between cycles

Supports scaling Scottish technology businesses with hybrid grant-loan funding and growth recognition.

Closed

Turn a public sector research asset into something a market will pay for.

Closed

Supports early-stage founders from Commonwealth countries with mentoring, masterclasses, and investor-facing acceleration.

Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.

Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.

Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.

Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.

Closed

Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.

Closed

Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.

Open

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

Open

Provides early-stage startups with up to one hundred fifty thousand dollars in cloud credits and software access.

Open

Runs a selective AI security fellowship for small teams tackling critical risk problems.

Between cycles

Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

Awards INR 25 lakh each to 10 women-led AI teams tackling real-world public challenges.

Between cycles

Offers Cloudflare credits and edge platform support for founders launching global infrastructure-based products.

Closed

Funds research and organizational support across technical governance, policy, and strategic analysis.

Funds up to $65,000 for a 12-week demonstrator that images hidden objects in walls.

Closed

Supports projects on governance, safety policy, and coordination in advanced AI systems.

Closed

Runs a 10-week, no-cost, non-dilutive accelerator for early-stage security, resiliency, and dual-use founders, from Pre-Seed through Series A+, culminating in enterprise pilots and investor-ready pitches.

Closed

Fully funds space-enabled services that make critical infrastructure safer and greener.

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.