Defense grants
Explore grants for defense and dual-use technology companies. This directory includes funding for defense research, autonomous systems, sensing, secure communications and resilience technology, from defense ministries, innovation units and multinational security programs, with the eligibility rules each funder sets out.
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MSCA4Ukraine Fellowships 2025
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a single coordinating project that pays two-year fellowships so displaced Ukrainian researchers can continue their work at host organisations in the EU and Horizon Europe Associated Countries.
Naaripreneur for Her Program Cohort 2
🇮🇳IIMV FIELD · India
Awards up to INR 5 lakh total in grants plus 6 months' incubation to women-led Indian startups.
NC BEC GROWTH
🇺🇸NC IDEA · United States
Backs Black-led North Carolina entrepreneurs through follow-on support linked to prior startup seed recognition.
New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program
🇺🇸US Treasury · United States
Administers New Markets Tax Credit allocations through Community Development Entities to attract private investment in low-income communities.
Next Startupper Award
VivaTech · France
Pays the winning student entrepreneur a €5,000 prize plus VIP passes and a Main Stage pitch slot at VivaTech in Paris.
NIDHI Seed Support Program (NIDHI-SSP) — Call 2
🇮🇳IKP EDEN · India
Pays Indian tech startups up to Rs. 1 crore in seed funding to hit product and market milestones.
NIDHI-Seed Support System (SSS)
🇮🇳Amity Incubator · India
Funds up to Rs. 50 lakh in equity-free seed money for early-stage startups.
Novel circular business models to enable the just transition to a sustainable and circular economy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies and researchers that build and demonstrate at scale new circular business models — reuse, repair, sharing, product-as-a-service.
Open Pitch
OOF · United States
Pays one early-stage startup $125,000 for winning a live pitch at Invest Fest.
Open strategic autonomy, economic and research security in EU foreign policy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects up to EUR 3.5 million that build the EU's evidence base on open strategic autonomy and research security.
Open Topic: Innovative solutions for the sustainable and circular transformation of SMEs
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds open-topic solutions — from AI tools to new business models — that help SMEs cut resource use and comply with green-transition rules.
P2R 2026 – Incentives for Start-Up of Companies in Border Problem Areas
🇸🇮SEF · Slovenia
Pays new Slovenian companies in border regions a EUR 30,000 lump sum start-up grant.
Patents
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels SMEs filing national or PCT international patents for their R&D results, covering 50 percent of patent application and procedure costs.
PCIEERD Capability Development Program — ExperTISE + GODDESS
🇵🇭DOST · Philippines
Offers capacity-building and training support for Philippine science and technology institutions through PCIEERD grants.
Pilot initiatives on Technology Infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Paid five European projects between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to map a chosen technology area's infrastructure gaps and propose an EU-level plan to close them.
Preparatory actions exploring future frameworks for research infrastructures investment plans and funding streams, for integrated and sustained scheme for access and for joint technology development
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one preparatory study, chosen from three named areas, mapping future funding, access or joint technology models for European research infrastructures.
Preparing the EU for future enlargement: challenges and opportunities
🇦🇱European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects up to EUR 3.5 million that study how the EU and citizens can prepare for future enlargement rounds.
Princeton New Industrial Collaborations Fund
🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States
Funds Princeton science and engineering faculty starting new industry research partnerships through two-year grants.
Proof of Business
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies developing their first technologically innovative prototype or service, covering 50 to 70 percent of the budget for technical and economic validation.
Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge
🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom
Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.
Queens Tech & Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸QEDC · United States
Awards up to $20,000 each to five early-stage entrepreneurs with strong Queens ties.
R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools, methods, digitalisation and solutions for research infrastructure upgrades
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D for new scientific instruments, tools and digitalisation that upgrade European research infrastructures, co-developed with industry.
Research infrastructure concept development including major upgrades or extensions of existing infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds feasibility and design studies for the next generation of European research infrastructures, or transformative upgrades to existing ones.
Research infrastructure services advancing frontier knowledge (bottom-up)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds transnational or virtual access to top research infrastructures in a scientific domain not already covered by earlier frontier-access calls.