Food Tech grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Food Tech grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for alternative proteins, food safety, nutrition, processing and supply-chain innovation from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Food Tech in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 97-120 of 272 grants
Regional EDGE
🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom
Supports Regional EDGE programmes for early-stage Scottish businesses across four regions via local delivery partners.
Start Up Loans
🇬🇧BBB · United Kingdom
Funds UK founders starting or growing a young business with a government-backed personal loan and 12 months of mentoring.
WE Innovate
🇬🇧Imperial Enterprise · United Kingdom
Supports women founders with a focused programme of mentorship and investor readiness for startup growth.
Scottish Scale EDGE
🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom
Supports scaling Scottish technology businesses with hybrid grant-loan funding and growth recognition.
Commercialising Knowledge Assets Fund (CKAF) autumn
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Turn a public sector research asset into something a market will pay for.
Commonwealth Startup Fellowship
🇬🇧Imperial Enterprise · United Kingdom
Supports early-stage founders from Commonwealth countries with mentoring, masterclasses, and investor-facing acceleration.
Doctoral focal award: UKRI venture doctorates: outline stage
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.
Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge
🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom
Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.
Santander X UK Awards
🇬🇧Santander · Spain
Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.
TBAT 2026 Innovation Challenge
🇬🇧TBAT · United Kingdom
Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.
UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Water Innovation Fund · United Kingdom
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.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.
Innovate UK Innovation Loans (Future Economy)
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.
Innovation Vouchers
🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom
Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.
FoodTech Challenge 3.0
Presidential Court · United Arab Emirates
Pays early-stage foodtech startups a share of $2 million to scale in the UAE and beyond.
Innovate For Tomorrow Impact Accelerator (2025 edition)
Dubai Holding · United Arab Emirates
Awards up to AED 500,000 to circular-economy scale-ups through Dubai Holding.
LDC Climate Resilience Prize
LDC · Netherlands
Awards a non-dilutive CHF 100,000 cash prize to a startup driving climate resilience in agriculture.
Zayed Sustainability Prize
ZSP · United Arab Emirates
Awards NPOs and SMEs tackling sustainability challenges across six prize categories.
Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge
A4IP · Italy
Awards cash prizes, mentoring and scholarships to innovators using or conserving agrobiodiversity.
Assisting Specialty Crop Exports: Low Oxygen Storage and Packaging Systems for U.S. Tree Nuts with Phytosanitary Traceability
USDA · United States
Funds tech that verifies low-oxygen storage conditions so U.S. tree nut exports clear other countries' pest rules.
Digital Innovation in Food Processing Award
WFF · Italy
Pays at least $7,500 to startups making food processing more sustainable and efficient.
Farm Animal Welfare Fund — RFP: Humane Fish Slaughter
Coefficient · United States
Funds practical technologies that improve humane fish handling and slaughter outcomes.
Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award
WFF · Global / Multinational
Pays youth-led agrifood startups at least $7,500 to fight malnutrition and food insecurity.