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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Verizon Smart Campus Competition
🇺🇸Verizon · United States
Pays Northeastern student teams up to $3,000 each for 5G network innovation ideas.
Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the same reanalysis of already-collected cancer data on a smaller, exploratory footing, for teams that do not need a full research project award.
UK Obesity Research Institute: full application
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Establish a collaborative institute for mechanistic obesity research.
BIRD General Program
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Supports United States and Israel partners to jointly commercialize hi-tech innovation, including cybersecurity, life sciences, and manufacturing.
NIH HEAL Initiative — Open NOFOs
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Supports opioid, pain, and substance use disorder research in the NIH HEAL portfolio.
MSCA Doctoral Networks (HORIZON-MSCA-DN)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European doctoral networks enabling multi-country training in life and engineering sciences.
RAISE Doctoral Networks for AI in Science (RAISE pilot)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds doctoral networks whose research depends on building new AI tools that push forward a specific scientific discipline, selected through the main MSCA Doctoral Networks call.
Unlocking advanced capabilities in conservation and heritage science
🇬🇧AHRC · United Kingdom
Capital funding for conservation and heritage science facilities.
Akcelerator — Internationalization Vouchers
🇭🇷HAMAG-BICRO · Croatia
Offers Akcelerator program alumni vouchers for internationalization, enabling attendance at global events, missions, and partnership meetings.
BASS — Wildfires
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-enabled wildfire monitoring programs improving response, prediction, and ecosystem safety.
BRIDGE Proof of Concept
🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland
Funds young Swiss researchers moving research into practical demonstrations to strengthen real-world implementation.
Computational Mathematics
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds mathematics where computation is the centre — algorithms that are provably justified and actually efficient.
Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship
🇺🇸Damon Runyon · United States
Provides students and early career scholars with mentoring support for Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and medical technology.
Horizon Energy: AI Foundation Models for Grid Data
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €10M projects that pool energy data and train AI foundation models on it, tested in lab demonstrators and real-life pilots.
Innowwide — Next
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.
Take-off Phase 1 — Feasibility Study (WO)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch academic entrepreneurs turning innovative ideas into commercially viable feasibility-focused technology studies.
AFOSR YIP
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports early-career researchers in the United States through long-term federal science initiatives.
AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Funds early-career investigators in United States defense research through multi-year applied projects.
NIH Research Software Engineer (RSE) Award
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the salary of a research software engineer building and sharing biomedical, behavioural or health software, tools and algorithms.
Gambling Harms Research Grants
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom teams tackling gambling-related harms, funding interdisciplinary studies and practical interventions through UKRI cross-council grants.
Cluster Acceleration Programme — Phase 1
🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom
Supports Northern Ireland small and medium enterprise-led cluster groups to test collaborative business models before entering growth phases.
CNPq MAI/DAI — Industry-University Innovation Fellowships
🇧🇷CNPq · Brazil
Funds industry-university fellowships linking graduate students with company teams to strengthen real-world implementation.
Statistics
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds statistical theory and methods, and their application to any part of science and engineering.
UK-Singapore CRD 2026
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funding for UK-Singapore industrial research collaborations.