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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Air Force SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Funds United States Air Force and Space Force aligned small-business concepts in early defense feasibility work.
Air Force SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Supports United States Air Force-aligned projects maturing defense-ready prototypes toward broader mission adoption.
CHIPS NAPMP: Materials and Substrates R&D
🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States
Funds U.S. companies and institutions developing advanced packaging substrates and substrate materials to accelerate domestic semiconductor supply chain capacity.
CITEC Innovation Awards
Rice OoI / Rice 360 / BME · United States
Funds NIH-eligible teams refining and testing point-of-care cancer diagnostics through six- or twelve-month subawards.
Innovate UK Venture Builder Pilot
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom university spin-outs in frontier AI, engineering biology, and advanced materials manufacturing.
Innovation Agreements (Accordi per l'Innovazione)
🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy
Offers Italian manufacturing and service firms partnerships to build industrial innovation projects across regions.
IPCEI Advanced Semiconductor Technologies Call
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French companies and research partners developing advanced semiconductor technologies through case-by-case state aid.
IPCEI Industrial Artificial Intelligence Call
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French companies and research partners developing industrial AI through grants or recoverable advances.
NASA SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses conducting early-stage R&D to establish the feasibility of innovations aligned with NASA mission priorities.
NASA STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their research institution partners conducting early-stage space technology R&D through NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer program.
Navy SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Funds United States naval small-business ideas for ship, aviation, undersea, and autonomy-related feasibility studies.
Navy SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Supports United States naval innovation teams transitioning validated concepts into stronger prototypes and mission-ready solutions.
Stanford Medicine Catalyst
🇺🇸Stanford Med Catalyst · United States
Funds Stanford teams piloting and advancing validated health innovations through capital and hands-on operating support.
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.
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.
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.