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 313-336 of 586 grants
American-Made Heliostat Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. innovators developing and demonstrating heliostat components through a DOE prize competition under the American-Made Challenges program.
Arizona Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸ACA · United States
Funds Arizona startup growth in AI, health, hardware, and biotech sectors.
ARPA-I Ideas and Innovation Challenge — Stage 2
🇺🇸ARPA-I · United States
Supports transportation infrastructure challengers advancing knowledge, construction, optimization, and enabling technologies through ARPA-I competition.
Bakar Award
🇺🇸Bakar Fellows Program · United States
Funds UC Berkeley STEM faculty moving research discoveries toward commercially viable products and services.
BFTP CNP TechCelerator
🇺🇸Ben Franklin Tech Partners · United States
Funds local entrepreneurs with accelerator support and pitching assistance to strengthen real-world implementation.
DOE Early Career Research Program — ASCR Track
🇺🇸DOE ASCR · United States
Supports grants for early career academic and lab researchers in advanced computing quantum and applied mathematics.
DOE ITO SBIR/STTR Phase I
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses (≤500 employees) developing innovative industrial energy efficiency and cross-sector manufacturing technologies through DOE SBIR/STTR Phase I feasibility grants of up to $200,000.
DOE ITO SBIR/STTR Phase II
🇺🇸DOE ITO · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses with a prior DOE ITO Phase I award to carry out expanded R&D through a two-year cooperative agreement of up to $1,100,000.
ED/IES SBIR Direct to Phase II
🇺🇸IES · United States
Funds United States education innovators translating university or nonprofit innovations into scalable products.
ED/IES SBIR Phase IA — Novel Ed Tech
🇺🇸IES · United States
Funds United States education innovators to build first prototypes of new research-based learning technologies.
ED/IES SBIR Phase IB — Component on Existing Product
🇺🇸IES · United States
Supports United States education teams adding marketable features to existing evidence-based ed-tech products.
EPA SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸EPA · United States
Supports small United States businesses developing environmental technology solutions in water, air, pollution prevention, and chemical safety.
EPA SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸EPA · United States
Supports small United States companies extending proven environmental technologies into broader applications through EPA follow-on innovation funding.
Geothermal Geophone Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Awards up to $2.7 million in cash prizes for high-temperature geothermal seismic sensors.
Harvard Grid Accelerator — Awards
🇺🇸Harvard OTD · United States
Offers Harvard engineering teams startup support to take inventions from laboratory development to commercialization outcomes.
IARPA ARCADE
🇺🇸IARPA · United States
Funds United States contractors building AI workflows for circuit design and technical document understanding.
IGEM HERC Track
🇺🇸Idaho Commerce · United States
Supports deep-tech commercialization for university-linked companies in Idaho through state reimbursable grants and early-stage commercialization pathways.
Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program
🇺🇸Innovate Alabama · United States
Funds Alabama small businesses with active federal SBIR or STTR awards.
Kickstart Grant Program
🇺🇸WBC · United States
Funds Wyoming startups pursuing high-growth markets through paused non-dilutive Kickstart grants.
Lab Venture Challenge
🇺🇸CU Venture Partners · United States
Awards CU Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs researchers up to $125,000 in non-dilutive proof-of-concept funding to push university inventions toward commercial ventures.
Long-Duration Energy Storage
🇺🇸OCED · United States
Funds long-duration energy storage pilots and demonstrations that prove technical and commercial viability.
MEP Center State Competition
🇺🇸NIST MEP · United States
Supports a designated state through a dedicated MEP Center to provide manufacturing technical assistance to small and medium firms.
Microbattery Design Prize
🇺🇸AMMTO · United States
Pays teams up to $300,000 to design small-capacity batteries that beat today's microbatteries on performance, safety and recyclability.
MIT delta v Accelerator Cohort
🇺🇸MIT · United States
Supports MIT-affiliated startup teams with equity-free funding and intensive accelerator mentoring through summer.