Advanced Materials grants
Explore grants for advanced materials companies. This directory covers funding for new materials discovery, composites, nanomaterials, coatings, critical materials and sustainable substitutes, from research councils, innovation agencies and industrial programs that fund materials from the lab to production.
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Rothberg Catalyzer Prize
🇺🇸Tsai CITY · United States
Pays $25,000 to a Yale student team building a working hardware-and-software prototype.
Santander X Global Award
🇪🇸Santander · Spain
Awards up to €20,000 equity-free to university-linked startups from six countries.
SBIR/STTR Phase I Incentive Funds Program
🇺🇸NC Commerce · United States
Reimburses North Carolina small businesses for part of the cost of preparing and submitting a federal Phase I SBIR or STTR proposal.
SBIR/STTR Phase I Matching Funds Program
🇺🇸NC Commerce · United States
Matches state funds for North Carolina small businesses that already won a federal Phase I SBIR or STTR award, bridging the gap before Phase II.
Self-Help Group Formation Incentive (DAY-NULM)
🇮🇳DAY-NULM (Uttarakhand) · India
Pays a one-time Rs10,000 incentive to newly formed urban women's self-help groups.
Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence and María de Maeztu Units of Excellence (Centros de Excelencia Severo Ochoa y Unidades María de Maeztu)
🇪🇸AEI · Spain
Supports elite Spanish centres and units through long-term accreditation-linked scientific investment.
SFF S-Process Grant Round
🇺🇸SFF · United States
Funds organisations working on humanity's long-term survival and flourishing.
SkatteFUNN R&D Tax Deduction
🇳🇴Skatteetaten · Norway
Funds Norwegian companies with deductions that return support when innovation costs exceed tax obligations.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program
🇹🇼SMESA · Taiwan
Pays Taiwanese SMEs government grants of up to roughly US$375,000 across three phases to research, develop and commercialise new technologies, services or products.
Spark Grants
🇺🇸Swartz Center · United States
Funds student startup ideas at Carnegie Mellon with early product validation grants.
SSBCI Technical Assistance Program
🇺🇸Connecticut Innovations · United States
Provides free legal, accounting, and finance advisory support to disadvantaged Connecticut firms through federal SSBCI resources.
Standard Mentor Assignment
🇮🇪Enterprise Ireland · Ireland
Pays for up to €1,750 toward ten sessions with an experienced business mentor.
Stanford Large Propel Grant
🇺🇸Stanford · United States
Funds Stanford faculty teams preparing collaborative proposals for large external opportunities.
Stanford Small Propel Grant
🇺🇸Stanford · United States
Supports Stanford faculty teams building pre-competitive evidence for major external grant submission success.
Start Up Fund
🇮🇳OIL · India
Backs DPIIT-recognised Indian startups with technical and financial support via IIT incubators.
Start Up Loans
🇬🇧BBB · United Kingdom
Funds UK founders starting or growing a young business with a government-backed personal loan and 12 months of mentoring.
Start-Up Nation — Pillar I (2026 edition)
🇷🇴Romanian Government · Romania
Funds Romanian entrepreneurs aged 18-30 starting new small businesses with up to 250,000 lei.
Start-Up Nation — Second Session
🇷🇴MEDAT · Romania
Will fund up to RON 250,000 per new Romanian business once MEDAT opens the second Start-Up Nation session, though the exact application dates have not been published yet.
Start-Up Nation 2026 (Ediția IV)
🇷🇴Romanian Government · Romania
Funds new Romanian businesses with up to 250,000 Lei in EU-backed grants.
Start-Up Nation Romania 2026 - Pillar I (Youth Entrepreneurship)
🇷🇴MEDAT · Romania
Pays for up to 90% of a young Romanian founder's new small-business costs, worth up to 250,000 lei, after they complete a mandatory entrepreneurship training course.
Starter Package for Internationalization (Starterspakket Internationalisering)
🇧🇪FIT · Belgium
Funds first-time Flemish exporters launching international sales with flat-rate export grants.
Startup Nation Program (2026 Edition, Pillar I)
🇷🇴Govt. of Romania · Romania
Funds Romanian entrepreneurs aged 18-30 with up to 250,000 lei to launch an SME.
Startup Nation Romania (Pillar I)
🇷🇴Govt. of Romania · Romania
Funds young Romanian entrepreneurs aged 18-30 with up to 250,000 lei to start a business.
Startup of the Year
🇺🇸UCSD · United States
Awards $50,000 to the top UC San Diego-affiliated startup each year.