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Hardware grants in the United Kingdom

Explore Hardware grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for electronics, devices, sensors, prototyping and hardware startups 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 Hardware in the United Kingdom come first.

Most active fundersEPSRC8 Innovate UK7 STFC6 HMRC5 MoD5 DASA4

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Showing 73-96 of 335 grants

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Map the Gap Phase 3 — Riverine Relief

🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom teams with aerial systems for terrain and river assessments that improve operational safety.

DefenseRobotics+3

£2M

Closed

Measure Time between Signals with Extremely High Accuracy

🇬🇧NPNTO · United Kingdom

Funds UK proof-of-concept builds for picosecond-accurate time-interval measurement tech.

DefenseHardware

Closed

Pre-announcement: Open-source semiconductor security platform development

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

One-year research projects to inform an open-source hardware security platform.

SemiconductorsCybersecurity+1

Closed

Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics

🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom medical teams developing point-of-care blood diagnostics for use in field operations.

DefenseMedtech+2

£500K – £700K

Closed

Rapid Transfusion Diagnostics: Optimising Safety on Deployed Operations

🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom

Supports innovative point-of-care blood testing devices for military medical operations in deployed settings.

MedtechBiotech+2

£500K – £700K

Closed

Scaling Supply Chains for Quantum Enabled Sensing and PNT

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK business-led consortia developing supply chains for quantum enabled sensing and positioning, navigation and timing technologies.

QuantumHardware+4

£4M – £6M

Closed

Strathclyde Inspire Innovation Challenge

🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom

Supports University of Strathclyde students with early startup ideas through a competition that rewards market-ready commercial thinking.

AIBiotech+5

£10K

Closed

UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK businesses doing joint R&D in specific technology areas with Swiss partners through Innovate UK bilateral competition rounds.

AIBiotech+10

£450K

Closed

Business Energy Advice Service

🇬🇧WMCA · United Kingdom

Funds West Midlands SMEs implementing energy-efficiency measures after a business energy assessment.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+2

£1K – £100K

Closed

Foundational Economy Innovation Fund Scale Up Phase

GMCA · United Kingdom

Funds FEIF testing grantees scaling everyday-economy innovation projects through follow-on grants.

AIIoT & Edge+4

£60K

Closed

Foundational Economy Innovation Fund Testing Phase

GMCA · United Kingdom

Funds Greater Manchester businesses testing everyday-economy innovation projects through FEIF grants.

AIIoT & Edge+4

£11K

Closed

Parkwalk EIS University Funds

🇬🇧Parkwalk Advisors · United Kingdom

Supports Parkwalk EIS and university founders with strategic innovation funds for early ventures.

AIQuantum+5

£150K – £3M

Discontinued

STFC Bridging for Innovators

🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom university and deep tech teams by bridging research outputs to follow-on funding.

Advanced MaterialsHardware+2

Open

EIC Transition Open

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

AerospaceAgritech+22

€500K – €2.5MSep'26

Open

SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics Challenge — Stage 1

🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany

Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.

RoboticsHardware+1

€7.2MOct'26

Open

Eureka Network Projects — Permanent

EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.

AIBiotech+12

Open

Eurostars Call 11

🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.

AIBiotech+12

Open

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships — ISERD)

🇪🇺ISERD · Israel

Supports internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers placed in Israeli institutions to build independent research careers through EU mobility fellowships.

AIBiotech+10