Hardware grants in the United States
Explore Hardware grants for companies in the United States. This list brings together funding for electronics, devices, sensors, prototyping and hardware startups from US innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United States, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Hardware in the United States come first.
Showing 1-24 of 586 grants
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds eleven NSF computing programmes through one door — $280 million and roughly 600 awards across algorithms, systems, networks and AI.
MJSP Partnership
🇺🇸MN DEED · United States
Supports Minnesota employers in educational partnerships through workforce development grants for new worker pathways.
Meta Research PhD Fellowship Cohort
🇺🇸Meta · United States
Offers a research fellowship stream for doctoral candidates in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and systems research.
Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities: Advancing Research-Related Operations
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds up to $350,000 of equipment that keeps a shared research facility running — but explicitly not scientific instruments. A cost share is required.
ONR TRAPS SPA
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports development of shipboard power architectures that actively manage transient demand using controls, conversion, and storage.
Precision Inertial Navigation & Positioning On an Integrated Tesseract (PINPOINT)
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds new physics for inertial sensors built to break a decade-long precision plateau.
Utilizing Equipment to Study Environmental Extrinsic Factors and Enhance Rigor and Reproducibility of Animal Research (Clinical Trials Not-Allowed)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the kit that measures what else is happening to lab animals — light, noise, temperature — because those variables quietly wreck reproducibility.
BRAIN Initiative: Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds taking a brain recording or stimulation device from prototype through safety testing and an FDA exemption into a first small clinical study.
BRAIN Initiative: Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the small clinical trial that settles a brain device's final design — early feasibility studies, from short procedures to chronic implants.
Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Devices for Recording/Modulation in Human CNS
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds human clinical studies of next-generation neural devices through research agreements.
Next-Generation Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human CNS
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports the development of next-generation neural devices for human neuroscience applications through collaborative research.
Continuation of Solicitation for the DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Supports unsolicited basic research proposals across all Office of Science thematic areas in the United States.
Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit — Section 48D — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports United States semiconductor manufacturers by offsetting domestic investments in chipmaking facilities through advanced manufacturing tax credits.
R&D Tax Credit — Income Tax Credit (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports established United States companies with income tax credits tied to qualified innovation spending.
R&D Tax Credit — QSB Payroll Offset (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports United States small businesses through payroll tax offsets when they fund qualifying innovation activity.
Princeton Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund
🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States
Funds Princeton investigators moving university inventions toward licensing through proof-of-concept and prototype grants.
CHIPS Incentives: Semiconductor Materials & Equipment NOFO
🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States
Invests in semiconductor materials and equipment manufacturers expanding domestic supply chain capacity.
NSF Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I, Phase II, Fast-Track Programs: A Pilot Emphasis on Scientific Instrumentation
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds startups building next-generation scientific instruments — up to $2 million per company, no equity taken.
Draper TIF
🇺🇸UW Entrepreneurship Hub + WiSys · United States
Funds WARF-disclosed UW Madison inventions through patent and licensing preparation for market-ready transfer.
Major Research Instrumentation Program
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds shared research instruments too expensive for an ordinary grant — up to $4 million to buy one or to build one that does not exist yet.
MPS Astronomical Sciences Research Programs (MPS Astro)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds astronomy research, instrumentation and new approaches through one door — a $100 million pool.
BIRD General Program
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Supports United States and Israel partners to jointly commercialize hi-tech innovation, including cybersecurity, life sciences, and manufacturing.
Texas Enterprise Zone Program
🇺🇸Texas Comptroller · United States
Funds businesses in Texas Enterprise Zones with tax-advantaged support tied to growth-oriented capital deployment.
One-Step, Rapid, Low-Cost Definitive Drug Testing at the Point of Need Challenge
🇺🇸NIDA · United States
Pays up to $600,000 in prizes to teams building rapid, low-cost drug-testing device prototypes.