Quantum grants in the United Kingdom

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

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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.

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

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

Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.

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.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

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Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.

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Invests in hardware, aerospace, and defense innovation founders through a corporate venture platform tied to Lockheed Martin.

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

Awards a free exhibition pod, travel and mentorship to deep-tech scale-ups that place in this annual competition at GITEX North Star in Dubai.

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Supports allocation of exascale compute resources for scientific codes and high-impact computing studies.

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Runs research teams and institutions for INCITE Allocation in artificial intelligence, quantum systems, and energy systems.

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Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.

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.

Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

Awards up to $500 for sharp expert insight on tokenization, AI and quantum in finance.

Funds three-year PhD fellowships in quantum science and technology at Bavarian universities.

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Supports United Kingdom quantum biology research linking physics tools to biological discovery challenges.

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Funds two early-career female researchers with a two-year quantum-science postdoc in Austria.