AI grants
Explore grants for AI companies. This directory includes funding for machine learning research, foundation models, compute and data infrastructure, trustworthy AI and applied AI in industry, health and public services, from national research agencies, innovation programs and corporate funds, alongside grants open to any sector.
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Probability
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research on the theory and applications of probability — stochastic processes, particle systems, Markov processes and more.
Proof of Concept (Dokazivanje inovativnog koncepta) (PoC9 — First PK.1.1.17)
🇭🇷HAMAG-BICRO · Croatia
Funds concept-stage Croatian innovations by supporting technical validation, protection work, and proof activities before scale-up.
SONATA BIS 16
🇵🇱NCN · Poland
Funds established Polish researchers for team-based basic science projects connecting lab discovery to excellence.
Strategic Mobility
🇸🇪SSF · Sweden
Supports cross-sector researcher mobility in Sweden through exchanges among academia, industry, and public institutions.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
Doctoral focal awards in data-intensive sciences
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Funding for doctoral training in data-intensive sciences.
DRIVE35 innovation fund: collaborate three
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative R&D for zero emission vehicle technologies and manufacturing.
Quantum computing applications for large scale impact: CR&D
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Build quantum software that solves a named industrial problem better than classical methods.
Supporting digitalisation of Distribution System Operators for a smart energy transition (Smart Grid Academy)
European Commission · European Union
Covers up to 95% of costs for projects that build electricity Distribution System Operators' in-house digital and AI capacity across at least 3 countries.
ERC Proof of Concept Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.
Joint DMS/NIGMS Initiative to Support Research at the Interface of the Biological and Mathematical Sciences
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds the mathematics and statistics needed to answer biological and biomedical questions, up to $1.2 million. NSF and NIH pay jointly.
Meta Research PhD Fellowship Cohort
🇺🇸Meta · United States
Offers a research fellowship stream for doctoral candidates in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and systems research.
PRMRP — Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program
🇺🇸MRDC / CDMRP · United States
Backs research teams and institutions for PRMRP Peer Reviewed Medical Research in biotechnology, medical technology, and artificial intelligence.
Artistic intelligence — harnessing the power of the arts for complex challenges, soft skills and innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €4.5-5 million to study and pilot art-science-technology collaborations that boost innovation, soft skills and human-centred technology.
Horizon Ocean Mission: Regional Digital Twin
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one project per sea basin that plugs local ocean data into the EU's shared Digital Twin Ocean platform, for marine policy and Blue Economy use.
Horizon Soil Mission: AI Decision Tools for Soil Management
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €9M project turning long-term field-trial data into AI decision-support tools for farmers, advisors and land managers.
SBO Security and Defence
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research in security and defense aligned with space, maritime, aviation, and cybersecurity priorities.
SBO Strategic Basic Research Projects
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research across Flemish institutions in AI, biotech, climate, and engineering.
AI Growth Lab
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Regulatory engagement for AI use cases in legal services.
EUDIS Non-Thematic SME Open Call
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.
House of AI Startup Challenge
🇫🇷Groupama · France
Offers applied-AI startups six months of free membership at Groupama's Paris innovation campus.
Security, Privacy, and Trust in Cyberspace
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds NSF's flagship cybersecurity research — up to $1.2 million a project from a $60 million pool, across four directorates.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.