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.
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Interregional Cooperation
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies doing market-oriented R&D with Flemish or Walloon research institutions and companies via the Belgian spearhead cluster and competitiveness pole network.
IP-CFT Phase V — Innovation with Companies (Innovación con Empresas)
🇨🇱CORFO · Chile
Supports Chilean training institutions and companies through co-funded innovation programs that link learning and product development.
J-Startup Impact — inaugural selection
🇯🇵METI · Japan
Supports Japanese impact startups through launch-phase programs that grow role models and market reach.
Joint R&D Call: Cleantech
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels-based research-industry consortia doing collaborative cleantech R&D, covering 40 to 60 percent of company costs and 100 percent of research organisation costs.
KrishiTech Synapse 2026
🇮🇳IHFC · India
Funds agritech projects with up to ₹2 Cr solo or ₹5 Cr as a consortium.
LevelUP Health & Life Sciences Accelerator
🇷🇴INNO · Romania
Runs a free six-week accelerator for early-stage Romanian and Central/Eastern European health and life sciences startups, with mentorship, a Silicon Valley scholarship prize, and fast-tracked access to up to €150,000 in follow-on funding from Fortech Ventures.
Making food systems more resilient to food safety risks through the deployment of technological solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D that turns existing food-safety science — molecular methods, genomics, photonics — into deployable tools against food fraud and safety risks.
Malaysia Digital Acceleration Grant (MDAG)
🇲🇾MDEC · Malaysia
Funds Malaysian tech companies in commercialisation and expansion stages to scale up and become regional champions in digital sectors.
MassChallenge UK Accelerator
🇬🇧MassChallenge UK · United Kingdom
Provides MassChallenge United Kingdom Accelerator participants with growth coaching, customer discovery, and investor preparation.
MZN x Hub71 Programme
🇦🇪Hub71 · United Arab Emirates
Runs a three-month MZN Hub pre-accelerator in Al Ain helping Emirati founders shape market-ready solutions.
National Call No. 152 — Peasant Economy (Economía Campesina)
🇨🇴SENA · Colombia
Funds Colombian farmers and agricultural workers launching viable agribusinesses through forgivable seed capital.
National Call No. 161 — Persons with Disabilities (Personas con Discapacidad)
🇨🇴SENA · Colombia
Supports Colombians with disabilities launching new enterprises through forgivable seed capital funding.
National Call No. 162 — Indigenous Peoples (Indígenas)
🇨🇴SENA · Colombia
Funds indigenous Colombian communities launching productive initiatives through forgivable seed capital support.
NIA Open Innovation Grant
🇹🇭NIA · Thailand
Supports Thai small businesses through NIA Open Innovation with grants for design, prototyping, and pilot learning.
North East Growth Lab 2026
🇮🇳IIMA Ventures · India
Offers grants up to INR 5 lakh plus mentoring to early-stage North East India startups.
NSTEP – Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship
🇮🇳MoA&FW · India
Pays students and research scholars up to Rs. 4 lakh for millet-based innovation projects.
Nutrients produced by microorganisms utilising primarily CO2 from the air, with the support of biotechnology
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies and researchers scaling up precision-fermentation microorganisms that turn captured CO2 into food nutrients.
Nutrition and Mental Health
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research linking diet and nutrients to mental health, aiming at evidence and guidance for policymakers and health professionals.
Nutrition in emergency situations - Ready-to-use Supplementary Food (RUSF) and Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AU-EU research consortia developing locally-produced therapeutic and supplementary foods for child malnutrition in Africa.
Objective and Sensory Quality Correlation in White Fish Fillet
FHF · Norway
Supports standardised white fish quality assessment by linking objective measurements with sensory profiles for clearer product grading.
Ocean Idea Challenge
🇨🇦OSP · Canada
Pays up to $8,000 to Canada-based individuals, teams and very early-stage companies who complete a milestone-based customer discovery sprint validating an ocean-sustainability idea.
Open topic: Innovating for on-farm post-harvest operations, storage and transformation of crops into food and non-food products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D that helps farmers store, process and add value to their harvests on-farm, for food or non-food products.
Pragmatic clinical trials to enhance the quality of life of older cancer patients (65 years and older) through nutrition
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds pragmatic clinical trials testing tailored nutrition-based care to improve outcomes and quality of life for cancer patients aged 65 and older.
Prevent and Detect Food and Beverage Fraud
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Fully funds feasibility studies on satellite-based food and beverage fraud detection.