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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Agri-food Biotech Scaling-up
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funded collaborative projects that help agri-food biotech SMEs scale fermentation-based products from lab to pilot and commercial scale.
Agri-food Biotech Scaling-up (SMP-COSME-BIOAGRIFOOD)
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Backs research teams and institutions for Agri food Biotech Scaling up in agriculture innovation, biotechnology, and food technology.
AgriStart
🇷🇴Impact Hub Bucharest · Romania
Offers mentoring and up to EUR 2,000 in services to early-stage Romanian agrifood startups.
Agrobiodiversity Innovation Challenge
A4IP · Italy
Awards cash prizes, mentoring and scholarships to innovators using or conserving agrobiodiversity.
Applied Research for a Competitive Food Sector and Sustainable Transitions
🇸🇪Formas · Sweden
Funds Swedish food-sector partners developing applied research for sustainable processing and competitiveness.
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.
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.
BARD Food Security Technology Accelerator
🇺🇸BARD · Global / Multinational
Funds US and Israeli industry-research consortia developing food security technologies at TRL 3–6 through binational conditional grants of up to $1 million.
BARD Food Security Technology Accelerator
🇺🇸USDA + Israeli Ministry of Agr · Global / Multinational
Funds U.S.-Israel teams developing food-security technologies through a binational accelerator pairing conditional grants of up to $1 million with required industry co-funding.
BBSRC Early Independence Fellowships
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
Supports early-career United Kingdom bioscientists with fellowships that build independent innovation leadership.
BBSRC Follow-on Fund Two
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom teams through follow-on funding to move discovery innovation toward commercialization.
BELCOO — Transregional R&D
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies collaborating on R&D projects with enterprises from Flanders or Wallonia, through the joint Belgian interregional innovation co-funding initiative.
Bioengineering in the Space Environment
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 200,000 euros to study bioengineering business ideas that use microgravity.
Biotechnology driven low emission food production systems
European Commission · European Union
Funds a single company building biotechnology-driven, low-emission food production, with an EU contribution of up to EUR 17.5 million under the EIC Accelerator's 2025 round.
BIRAC Research, Development & Innovation Fund (RDIF)
🇮🇳BIRAC · India
Funds Indian deep-tech biotech startups, SMEs and large industries scaling indigenous manufacturing.
Boosting data availability and AI solutions in food for consumers and food service professionals
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that build generative AI tools for food purchasing, preparation and preservation, with dedicated support packages for AI startups and SMEs.
Boosting the competitiveness of protein crops in Europe
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds innovation projects that make European-grown protein crops more competitive, from farm-level breeding and machinery to new value chains and by-product uses.
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.
Circular Innovation: Re-use & Recycle
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies testing the feasibility and viability of innovative waste re-use and recycling projects, covering 50 to 70 percent of costs.
ClimateLaunchpad 2022
Climate-KIC · European Union
Runs a global cleantech business-idea competition through national and regional finals, awarding up to €10,000 to the Global Grand Final winner.
Co-created Innovations for a Competitive Food Sector and Sustainable Transitions
🇸🇪Formas · Sweden
Funds Swedish food companies co-creating food-sector innovations with academic partners.
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.
DBT-BIRAC Bio-AI Call under BioE3 Policy
🇮🇳BIRAC · India
Funds Indian companies and startups developing Bio-AI platforms for high-performance biomanufacturing.