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 25-48 of 585 grants
NCATS STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NCATS · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their nonprofit research partners to conduct feasibility studies on translational science innovations toward commercialization.
NCATS STTR Phase II
🇺🇸NCATS · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their nonprofit research partners to continue and expand translational R&D begun in STTR Phase I toward a commercial product.
NCI SBIR/STTR Omnibus (Next Receipt 5)
🇺🇸NCI · United States
Supports small businesses developing cancer technologies through national NIH collaboration pathways.
NHLBI SBIR/STTR — Standard
🇺🇸NHLBI · United States
Supports small businesses advancing heart, lung, blood, and sleep-related technologies through NHLBI.
NIDCD SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NIDCD · United States
Supports United States. small businesses developing hearing, balance, and speech sensory technologies.
NIDCD SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NIDCD · United States
Funds follow-up development for small businesses extending early sensory communication technologies into practical products.
NIDCR SBIR/STTR
🇺🇸NIDCR · United States
Supports United States. small businesses developing dental, oral, and craniofacial health technologies.
NIEHS SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NIEHS · United States
Supports United States. small businesses building environmental health technologies at feasibility stage.
NIEHS SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NIEHS · United States
Supports United States. small businesses scaling environmental health technologies toward full development.
NIH SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NIH SEED · United States
Funds early stage United States biomedical teams through NIH seed support for feasibility work on prototype ready ideas.
NIH SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NIH SEED · United States
Supports United States biomedical small businesses advancing successful feasibility work into scale-up development.
NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory - Quantum Testbeds
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds quantum technology testbeds that put real end-users inside the development cycle — $32 million, with industry partners welcome.
MURI (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports multidisciplinary university consortia tackling mission challenges in Air Force research domains.
Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization — Next Gen Sensor Technology Development
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports neural behavior-sensing technology development through translational cooperative projects.
NIF Prototype Grants
🇺🇸NE DED · United States
Funds prototype development for Nebraska businesses turning ideas into first market-ready products.
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds NSF's largest computing awards — up to $15 million over seven years for a research agenda that looks a decade ahead.
NSF CAREER
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Supports early-career faculty in the United States to build independent research careers in science and engineering.
NSF REU — Sites and Supplements (Seed)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds undergraduate research cohort and supplement opportunities for students at United States universities.
Wyoming State Trade Expansion Program
🇺🇸WBC · United States
Funds Wyoming small businesses entering international markets through STEP export reimbursement grants.
Catalyze Product Definition Medical Device prototype design/testing and disease target identification and assay development
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds building and testing an early medical-device prototype and its matching disease target or assay, for heart, lung, blood or sleep disease.
Catalyze: Product Definition Medical Device Prototype Optimization
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds refining a medical-device prototype's design, assays and research tools for heart, lung, blood or sleep disease.
NHLBI Catalyze — Reissue
🇺🇸NHLBI · United States
Supports NHLBI translational pathways toward first-in-human feasibility testing.
Focused Technology Research and Development
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a project that develops a biomedical research technology and only that — no biological question attached.
NIBIB Small Grant Program
🇺🇸NIBIB · United States
Funds interdisciplinary technology projects for early biomedical engineering ideas at smaller budget scale.