Cybersecurity grants
Explore grants for cybersecurity companies. This directory brings together funding for secure systems, cryptography, hardware security, threat intelligence, critical infrastructure protection and privacy technology, from national security and digital agencies, research councils and innovation programs.
Showing 1-24 of 1,110 grants
Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DeepRAP — Deep Reasoning, Abstraction and Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports cognitive AI development focused on trustworthy deep reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities.
ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) — Between
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports early-career faculty with naval research grants fostering next-generation discoveries.
CIRIF Intake 1
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
Defence Industry Development Grants — Security
🇦🇺DISR · Australia
Funds Australian defence small businesses to improve security operations and infrastructure practices across critical manufacturing and cyber related capabilities.
NSF SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups demonstrating scientific feasibility of novel science and engineering innovations.
NSF SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups extending proven early projects into substantial technology development.
NSF STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups partnering with nonprofit research institutions for early-stage feasibility studies.
NSF STTR Phase II
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech projects that continue with nonprofit research partners after successful initial feasibility work.
NSF SBIR/STTR Fast-Track Pilot
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Supports United States deep-tech startups through a combined early and continuation development route.
Horizon Civil Security: Critical Communications System
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €3M project building rugged, post-quantum-secure comms devices for first responders that keep working without cellular coverage.
Horizon Security: Emerging-Tech Crime & Data Access
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.5M grants for police tools against emerging-tech crime and the lawful-data-access rules to match, run with Police Authorities as partners.
DURIP (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports United States universities acquiring major research equipment for defense-relevant research capabilities.
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.
Take-off Phase 1 — Feasibility Study (WO)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch academic entrepreneurs turning innovative ideas into commercially viable feasibility-focused technology studies.
AFOSR YIP
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports early-career researchers in the United States through long-term federal science initiatives.
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.
Estrdad Government Fee Refund Initiative
🇸🇦Monsha'at · Saudi Arabia
Funds Saudi startups by refunding selected government fees and patent-registration costs.
ONR Long Range BAA
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports Navy and Marine science teams through ONR Long Range access to opportunities across science and technology domains.
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.
CIRIF Intake 2
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
ARO MURI
🇺🇸ARO · United States
Supports multidisciplinary university teams pursuing long-range defense research collaborations and shared outcomes.