Food Tech grants
Explore grants for food tech companies. This directory brings together funding for alternative proteins, fermentation, food safety and traceability, nutrition science and sustainable processing, from agriculture and health agencies, innovation programs and food-industry challenges.
Showing 1-24 of 1,011 grants
DCMS 'Connections Through Gaming' Pilot Fund (Boys 11-16)
🇬🇧DCMS · United Kingdom
Gaming-based support for boys aged 11–16 facing loneliness or isolation.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
Horizon Agrifood: Farm Biodiversity for Food Security
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M research consortia that quantify agrobiodiversity's payoff and build the tools and finance to help farmers adopt it profitably.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Policy Support Hub
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a single €3M contract for policy researchers to run advisory and benchmarking work that helps EU governments grow their bioeconomies — not a lab grant.
Horizon Packaging: Food-Contact Plastic Recycling
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds industrial consortia that recycle multilayer plastic food packaging back into food-contact-safe plastic, at scale.
Salmon By-product Emulsion Reduction Call
🇳🇴FHF · Norway
Funds seafood research and industry teams reducing emulsions and finding uses for salmon-processing side streams through an FHF project grant.
D.E.S.I.G.N. for BioE3 Challenge
🇮🇳DBT · India
Pays India's top biotech concept entries ₹1 lakh each month, with grants to build them.
CBE JU 2026 Call for Project Proposals
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds EU bio-based innovation projects with up to Euro20 million per topic.
CBE JU: Nutritional Food Ingredient Resilience
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M innovation project that scales alternative proteins, oils, fibres or specialty carbohydrates into safe, accepted food ingredients.
Early independence: BBSRC fellowships: full stage
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for independent bioscience research in a host laboratory.
Fostering competences for the green transition
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to map the skills young people and workers need for the green transition in one high-impact sector and how to teach them.
Farming Futures R&D fund: Automation and Robotics Round 2
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative automation and robotics R&D for agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
FINEP Mais Inovação Brasil — Sustainable Agro-Industrial Chains (Cadeias Agroindustriais Sustentáveis)
🇧🇷FINEP · Brazil
Funds Brazilian agribusiness innovation that improves sustainable food production chains.
Farmer Collaboration Fund
🇬🇧Defra · United Kingdom
Funding for England-based organisations running farming collaboration groups.
Innovative Manufacturing Adoption Fund Stage 1
🇦🇺NSW Government · Australia
Funds NSW manufacturers with $10,000 to $50,000 to investigate adopting advanced manufacturing technology through feasibility studies, pilot projects and technology assessments run by an external consultant.
GRAPPA Innovation Open Call - Cut-off 2
🇪🇺GRAPPA · European Union
Pays European SMEs lump-sum grants to develop and commercialise upcycled agri-food biomass products, processes and technologies.
Automated Frozen Fish and Shrimp Block Handling Call
🇳🇴FHF · Norway
Funds seafood companies and suppliers developing automated systems to handle frozen fish and shrimp blocks through an FHF project grant.
Assisting Specialty Crop Exports: Low Oxygen Storage and Packaging Systems for U.S. Tree Nuts with Phytosanitary Traceability
USDA · United States
Funds tech that verifies low-oxygen storage conditions so U.S. tree nut exports clear other countries' pest rules.
EIC Accelerator Challenge: Biotech for Regenerating Agricultural Soils
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports scaling deep-tech for soil health, sustainability, and resilience of EU agriculture.
NCCIH Natural Product Early Phase Clinical Trial Award
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds three years replicating a natural product's effect on its target in people, for teams that have already done the pharmacokinetics work.
NCCIH Natural Product Early Phase Clinical Trial Phased Innovation Award
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds three years of pharmacokinetics and target-engagement work on a botanical, probiotic or supplement, then three more if the milestones are met.
NCCIH Natural Product Mid Phase Clinical Trial
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the mid-phase study that settles a natural product's dose, formulation or responder group before anyone commits to a multi-site efficacy trial.
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.
Proof-of-Concept Co-Financing — Cutoff 2 30)
🇪🇺EIT Food · European Union
Funds proof-of-concept and pilot projects for agrifood startups collaborating with corporate partners.