Semiconductors grants in the United States

Open

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

Open

Provides Massachusetts startup teams access to advanced prototyping and fabrication through MIT.nano collaboration.

Between cycles

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

Between cycles

Awards up to $250,000 in Arm technology credit to the winner and $150,000 to the runner-up among early-stage semiconductor startups building Arm-based chip designs worldwide, with automatic consideration for Silicon Catalyst's own incubator.

Closed

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

Closed

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.

Closed

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

Closed

Awards a $30,000 cash prize to startups collaborating with Taiwan's chip industry.

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

Supports doctoral students in computing, robotics, and intelligent systems by pairing university awards with industry mentorship.

Discontinued

Offers United Arab Emirates investors and strategic startups with growth capital and partnership options across technology and energy.

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

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.

Between cycles

Awards $250,000 a year to an 18-30 tech innovator fighting extreme poverty.