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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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.
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.
EDF Development Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.
EDF Research Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds collaborative European defense research consortia delivering disruptive solutions across security, space, and quantum technologies.
EUDIS (Disruptive Technologies and SME Calls)
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports small and medium defense innovators across Europe through development calls, coaching, and early-stage consortium opportunities.
Akcelerator — Internationalization Vouchers
🇭🇷HAMAG-BICRO · Croatia
Offers Akcelerator program alumni vouchers for internationalization, enabling attendance at global events, missions, and partnership meetings.
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.
Take-off Phase 1 — Feasibility Study (WO)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch academic entrepreneurs turning innovative ideas into commercially viable feasibility-focused technology studies.
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.
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.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.
Genesis Mission AI FOA — Phase I and Phase II (FES)
🇺🇸DOE FES · United States
Supports AI-enabled fusion and plasma research with continuation pathways for strong performers.
The Genesis Mission: AI for Science and Energy
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Provides research teams and institutions for The Genesis Mission: AI for Science and Energy in artificial intelligence, energy systems, and quantum systems.
The Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Supports AI for science progress from early concept stages toward national-scale implementation.
WEAVE-UNISONO
🇵🇱NCN · Poland
Funds bilateral and trilateral Polish research collaborations through lead-agency international partnerships.
AFRI Foundational and Applied Science
🇺🇸USDA NIFA · United States
Supports agriculture innovation across plant health, bioenergy, food safety, and rural systems through USDA research grants and extension.
CDG Josef Ressel Centres
🇦🇹CDG · Austria
Funds applied-research centres through public-industry co-financed long-term partnerships to strengthen real-world implementation.
Estrdad Government Fee Refund Initiative
🇸🇦Monsha'at · Saudi Arabia
Funds Saudi startups by refunding selected government fees and patent-registration costs.
SekMo — Hiring a Researcher in a Company
🇪🇪ETAg · Estonia
Funds Estonian companies hiring researchers for applied research and experimental development projects.