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 217-240 of 1,011 grants
Enhancing plant protein production to bolster the resilience of agricultural systems and EU self-sufficiency in plant protein used as feed
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D to grow more plant protein (like legumes) in the EU for animal feed, cutting reliance on imported soya.
EU global footprint on soils
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a framework to measure how the EU's demand for food, feed, fibre and biomass imports degrades soil health outside Europe, especially in Latin America and Africa.
EU-FORA Food Risk Assessment Fellowship — Hosting Sites and Fellows
🇪🇺EFSA · European Union
Pays paired EFSA-designated organisations to host and train fellows under the EU-FORA food-risk-assessment fellowship.
Farm Animal Welfare Fund — RFP: Humane Fish Slaughter
Coefficient · United States
Funds practical technologies that improve humane fish handling and slaughter outcomes.
Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award
WFF · Global / Multinational
Pays youth-led agrifood startups at least $7,500 to fight malnutrition and food insecurity.
Fighting Malnutrition and Enhancing Food Security Award
WFF · Global / Multinational
Pays youth-led food-security startups at least $7,500, plus a shot at $500,000 more.
Food Accelerator Network (FAN)
🇪🇺EIT Food · European Union
Offers EIT Food's Food Accelerator Network for agrifood startups across Europe to validate and prepare market-ready products.
Food Security
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for satellite-enabled food-security services.
Full-Scale Pilot Production Follow-up Research
FHF · Norway
Supports seafood research teams documenting and sharing results from full-scale aquaculture pilots to accelerate industrial implementation.
Grand Challenges — Cost-Reducing Innovations for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food
Gates Foundation · United States
Funds global teams developing innovations in protein, lipids, packaging, and manufacturing that reduce the ex-factory unit cost of ready-to-use therapeutic food by at least 30%.
Green Transition Food Processing Africa
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds African and European food-business entrepreneurs through a mentoring and cascading-grants scheme for greener, safer food processing.
Greenovation Renewable Energy for Livelihood Challenge (DRE Challenge 2.0)
🇮🇳EarthON · United States
Funds rural clean-energy innovation in India with up to ₹20 lakh non-dilutive awards.
Grow-NY Food & Agriculture Startup Competition
ESD · United States
Awards up to $1 million to food and ag startups that build their business in New York.
Harmonised Food Consumption and Composition Data — Terminology Support (Lot 2)
🇪🇺EFSA · European Union
Pays an EFSA-designated body to support terminology management for harmonised EU food-consumption and food-composition data.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 12th
🇫🇷Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Offers deep-tech startup challengers equity-free seed support, mentorship, and investor exposure across sectors and global markets.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)
Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.
Humane Fish Slaughter RFP
Coefficient · United States
Supports humane fish capture and slaughter innovation to improve welfare in aquaculture and fishing operations.
Improved Chemical and Biological Monitoring Data Methods (Lot 1)
🇪🇺EFSA · European Union
Pays an EFSA-designated body to improve how Member States collect and report chemical and biological monitoring data to EFSA.
India-Canada Collaborative Industrial Research & Development Programme 2025
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds joint India-Canada industrial R&D projects with a grant up to INR 1.5 crore per project.
India×Japan DeepTech & AI Venture Challenge
🇯🇵WEBMOB · India
Gives one Japan-based founder up to $30,000 in engineering credits to build their product.
Innovate for Impact Challenge
World Food Prize · United States
Awards $50,000 to the top early-stage AgTech startup pitching at the Borlaug Dialogue.
Innovate to Grow: Agrifood and Agtech (WA)
🇦🇺CSIRO · Australia
Supports Western Australian small and medium-sized companies in agrifood and agtech through eight-week online training.
Innovation for Resilient Organic Farming
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds practical innovations, evidence and knowledge exchange that improve the competitiveness and resilience of organic farming.
Integrating a holistic perspective in microbiome research for resilient, competitive and sustainable food systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research consortia, including businesses and startups, that study microbiomes across plants, humans and environments to unlock new food-system applications.