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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Shanghai Key Technology R&D Plan — New Generation IT
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Funds Shanghai applied-research teams through New Generation IT for AI, embodied intelligence, and data governance development.
Shanghai Magnolia Talent Plan Pujiang Project (Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan)
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai returnee scholars through Pujiang programmes for reintegration into local research ecosystems.
Shanghai Rising-Star Plan
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports emerging Shanghai science and technology talent through the Rising-Star programme for career development.
Shanghai Sci-Tech Little Giant Project
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai high-tech firms through the Little Giant programme via post-development innovation subsidy.
Shenzhen International Science and Technology Cooperation Project
🇨🇳STIC-SZ · China
Supports Shanghai teams with international peers through STIC cooperation funding for joint research exchanges.
Slack Agent Builder Challenge
Salesforce · United States
Pays a combined ₹39.06 lakh prize pool, no equity taken, to developers and teams worldwide who build AI agents on Slack's platform using low-code or no-code tools.
SLTT SOC / ISAC Program
🇺🇸CISA · United States
Funds for-profit and nonprofit organisations operating shared cyber operations and threat-information services through a CISA agreement.
Small Business Innovation Grant Phase 1
🇶🇦QNRF · Qatar
Funds Qatar-based SMEs testing technology feasibility through Phase 1 innovation grants.
Smart airports, airports as multimodal nodes and passenger experience
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on smart, connected airports that integrate landside, network and multimodal transport data.
SmartAIthon 2026
IEEE KCE CIS · India
Pays a ₹15,000 cash prize pool, no equity taken, to beginner-friendly hackathon participants building AI projects for smart and sustainable cities.
SNS experimental infrastructure
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds one project to run the SNS JU's shared 6G experimental infrastructure for Phase 3, validating technologies from earlier SNS Stream B projects.
SNS Operations and Output optimisation
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds one coordination project to run community-building, KPI tracking, dissemination and standardisation support across the whole SNS JU programme.
SNSF Starting Grants
🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland
Funds early-career Swiss investigators building independent research groups through sustained support.
SOCOM SBIR Release 1
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports two focused technical streams for special operations through dedicated defense research calls.
SOCOM SBIR Release 2
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports a second special operations technical stream with parallel topics for urgent missions.
Software Engineering for AI and generative AI
🇮🇸European Commission · European Union
Funds around three research projects, each worth EUR 4 to 6 million, to build better software-engineering tools for AI and generative-AI systems.
Space Strategic Technology Institute (SSTI): Space Cyber-Cognitive Overmatch (SCCO)
🇺🇸AFRL · United States
Backs a university-led consortium with up to $25 million to build transformative cyber, AI and quantum technologies that protect and strengthen U.S. military space systems.
SPRIND Funke Quantum-Driven Intelligence — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds teams building use cases where quantum sensing makes an existing system measurably better.
SPRIND Next Frontier AI Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds German teams through frontier innovation programmes for AI and advanced prototype development.
SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.
SPRIND Recoding Medicine Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds teams that curate a valuable health dataset and prove its worth with a working AI application.
Startup TRL 3-4
🇦🇷Agencia I+D+i · Argentina
Funds Argentine deep-tech startups up to 7 years old developing proof-of-concept and early laboratory prototypes at TRL 3-4.
STEP — Productive Innovation — Digital & Biotech (Inovação Produtiva — Digital e Biotecnologia)
🇵🇹IAPMEI · Portugal
Supports companies investing in critical digital, deep-tech and biotechnology manufacturing in eligible Portuguese regions.
Strathclyde Inspire Innovation Challenge
🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom
Supports University of Strathclyde students with early startup ideas through a competition that rewards market-ready commercial thinking.