Advanced Manufacturing grants in the United States

Between cycles

Pays up to $10,000 to photonics startups pitching at Photonics West 2027.

Between cycles

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

Closed

Awards 15,000 Euro plus exhibition space and mentoring to the winning early-stage company at the ACHEMA Start-up Award 2027, for new ventures in chemistry, process engineering or biotechnology.

Closed

Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.

Closed

Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.

Closed

Awards equity-free cash prizes and strategic investment access to ConTech startups pitching to a consortium of ten construction-industry corporate venture arms.

Closed

Funds global teams developing diagnostic devices and screening tools that cost approximately $1 per test or near-zero incremental cost per person screened for deployment in low-income countries.

Closed

Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.

Closed

Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.

Closed

Runs a nine-month, government-backed accelerator that helps foreign-founded startups enter and scale in Korea, with prize money for the top 20 teams and further commercialisation grants for the top 8.

Closed

Funds companies developing mobility technology across air, ground and sea, with emphasis on autonomous systems and critical domestic supply-chain components.

Closed

Funds three to five teams from a $58 million pool to build defense-grade RF systems that use optical timing instead of conventional microwave generation.

Open

Offers pitch time, mentoring and investor exposure to five category-winning startups.

Open

Awards up to $250,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to Tufts-affiliated founders.

Open

Offers qualifying open-source projects free full Datadog access to support monitoring and reliability operations.

Open

Provides venture studio support, go-to-market coaching, and startup growth services through cohort engagement.

Scheduled

Funds secondments of staff between partner organisations worldwide so researchers and R&I staff gain cross-sector, cross-country and cross-discipline experience.

Scheduled

Pays a postdoctoral researcher's fellowship at a host organisation in Europe, or abroad with a mandatory return phase, to build international research experience.

Between cycles

Backs startups setting up and scaling their business in Spain.

Between cycles

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

Between cycles

Offers breakthrough hardware startups coaching and up to €4,000 in travel support.

Between cycles

Offers early-stage founders startup credits for compute on AWS so teams can prototype and launch without immediate spend.

Between cycles

Offers provider-backed startups additional AWS startup credits for advanced architecture, deployment, and customer growth through the portfolio program.

Between cycles

Offers Series A or earlier technology startups free Datadog observability and security credits for one year.