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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2026 Global Quantum + AI Challenge
TQI · Canada
Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.
2026 Pump Priming Call
🇬🇧Edge AI Hub · United Kingdom
Funds £10k, up-to-12-month interdisciplinary Edge AI research projects at Newcastle's hub.
28DIGITAL Venture Incubation Program
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.
6G Devices
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds a coordination and support action to build a European roadmap and industrial strategy for simplified, RedCap-style 5G/6G devices ahead of the next EU research framework.
6G Telco Cloud and Service Provision Enablers
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds one project to build an evolvable 6G telco-cloud experimental infrastructure that hosts and validates network functions and AI/Compute/Security-as-a-Service.
A European HPC-centric Benchmark Framework
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build a unified, open benchmarking framework and suite for exascale and AI-capable supercomputers.
A services and business incubator for geospatial open-source developments
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a business incubation hub that hands 45-60% of its EU budget on as seed grants to help European open-source geospatial software projects become sustainable businesses.
Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Partnerships 6
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Supports rapid partnerships between United Kingdom businesses and academic teams to transfer innovation into commercialization.
Accelerating Foundation Models Research (AFMR)
Microsoft · United States
Funds academic researchers globally through Azure compute and model API credits for AI alignment, safety, and scientific discovery.
Accelerating freight transport and logistics digital innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds digital tools that extend electronic freight-data platforms beyond today's regulatory requirements for business-to-business data sharing.
Accelerating Physical AI: Embodied Intelligence for the Next Frontier of AI-Powered Robotics
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays physical-AI robotics teams a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate a prototype and then build it into a real-world-tested system.
Access EuroHPC quantum computers through the pilot call
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Apply for quantum-computing time linked to EuroHPC supercomputers.
Advance Queensland Private Sector Pathways Program
🇦🇺QLD Government · Australia
Funds Queensland small and medium enterprises running co-funded innovation trials with corporate partners.
Advanced AI for Process Industries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds generative, foundation and agentic AI for faster materials development, safer plants and more efficient industrial processes.
Advanced Architectures Systems and Technologies
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds 6G network-architecture research on simplified control/user-plane designs, constrained AI for network operations, and serverless multi-domain service orchestration.
Advanced Innovation Challenges – Pilot
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Pays deep-tech start-ups, SMEs and research organisations a €300,000 lump sum in Stage 1, then up to €2.5 million in Stage 2, to push high-risk breakthrough innovations that lack commercial uptake toward real-world, demand-tested deployment.
Advanced innovative solutions for improved competitiveness and sustainability in controlled environment agriculture (CEA)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI-driven and automated farming solutions for greenhouses, vertical farms and other controlled environment agriculture, with money for SMEs to test them.
Advancing AI-readiness and Machine-Actionability in the EOSC Ecosystem
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds work that makes EOSC's research data and repositories AI-ready and machine-actionable, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative.
Advancing atmospheric and aerial autonomy
🇬🇧NERC · United Kingdom
Proof-of-concept support for autonomous environmental observing capability.
Advancing Discovery to Market
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M teams translating early discoveries through commercialization support and enterprise readiness.
AEA Ignite — Next (seed)
🇦🇺Dept of Education AU · Australia
Supports Australian university researchers in early commercialisation by advancing proof-of-concept work toward market application.
AEA Ignite Round 3
🇦🇺Dept of Education AU · Australia
Provides research teams and institutions for AEA Ignite in artificial intelligence, agriculture innovation, and materials science.
Africa Deep Tech Challenge 2026
ADTF · United States
Pays cash prizes for on-device AI models that run on everyday budget laptops in Africa.
AFWERX SpaceWERX STRATFI Space
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Supports Space Force technology graduates with matching investment for private sector scale-up.