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.
Showing 169-192 of 2,569 grants
Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program
🇺🇸USDA NIFA · United States
Funds agriculture, natural-resource and human-science research capacity at 35 named Tribal Colleges and Universities.
VFF Early Stage Financing
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Supports early-stage venture financing that helps start-ups turn prototypes into scalable, innovation-driven products.
ARPA-H SBIR/STTR
🇺🇸ARPA-H · United States
Funds United States small businesses bridging health and neuroscience technologies from feasibility into advanced development.
NIH SBIR Direct-to-Phase II (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses moving directly into major development when early biomedical feasibility is already established.
NIH SBIR Fast-Track (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Supports United States small businesses with streamlined biomedical pathways from feasibility to continued development.
NIH SBIR Phase I (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses advancing biomedical and behavioral-health innovations through early technical validation.
NIH SBIR Phase II (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses advancing validated biomedical innovations through substantial full development execution.
NIH STTR Phase I (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small businesses partnering with nonprofit research institutions to validate biomedical ideas.
NIH STTR Phase II (Omnibus)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds United States small-business and research-partner teams advancing biomedical projects already proven in early studies.
Academic-Industrial Partnerships (AIP) to Translate and Validate In Vivo Imaging Systems
NIH · United States
Funds a company and an academic group working as one team to turn an imaging, spectroscopy or data-science advance into something usable in the clinic.
Developing novel theory and methods for understanding the genetic architecture of complex human traits (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the exploratory version of the same theory-and-methods work on complex trait variation, for ideas that need testing before a larger project is justified.
Personal Health Informatics for Delivering Actionable Insights to Individuals
NIH · United States
Funds informatics tools that take a person's own health data and hand back a risk assessment they can understand and do something about.
KAUST Global Postdoctoral Fellowship
🇸🇦KAUST · Saudi Arabia
Offers postdoctoral scientists comprehensive support at KAUST to pursue high-impact interdisciplinary research projects.
CICI — Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure
🇺🇸NSF OAC · United States
Funds United States cybersecurity research and infrastructure through the NSF to strengthen resilient digital systems.
Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds security for the infrastructure science runs on — data, computation, workflows and collaborations, up to $1.2 million per award.
Focal awards: multilingual futures for UK growth and connectivity
🇬🇧AHRC · United Kingdom
Doctoral training in language-grounded research through HEI-led consortia.
Quantum Machine Learning
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds research building and benchmarking quantum-enhanced machine-learning methods for real-world, data-heavy problems.
Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain
BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds new methods to study brain cells and circuits with tools for deeper neural research.
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research infrastructure between $4 million and $20 million — the gap between an instrument grant and a national facility.
EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds computing that runs on wave dynamics rather than switches — exploratory grants, or four-year projects up to $2 million.
NIDA Animal Genomics Program
NIH · United States
Funds genomic work in animals on what makes addiction start, escalate, persist and relapse — any kind of genetic variant.
John R. Evans Leaders Fund
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds Canadian investigator infrastructure for flagship science outcomes through national competition.
SEED Research Program
🇺🇸UW Entrepreneurship Hub + WiSys · United States
Funds UW Madison spin-out research teams to advance commercialization through faculty-led projects.
CIRIF Intake 2
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.