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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DCMS 'Connections Through Gaming' Pilot Fund (Boys 11-16)
🇬🇧DCMS · United Kingdom
Gaming-based support for boys aged 11–16 facing loneliness or isolation.
Defra Farming Innovation Investor Partnership
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom farming innovators through Defra public-private collaboration that strengthens practical innovation outcomes.
Digital Innovation in Food Processing Award
WFF · Italy
Pays at least $7,500 to startups making food processing more sustainable and efficient.
Digital technologies and energy transition in fisheries and/or aquaculture
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds demonstration projects using AI, IoT and robotics to cut energy use and emissions in fisheries and aquaculture across at least three countries in one sea basin.
Diversifying aquaculture production with emphasis on low-trophic species
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that grow EU aquaculture into new low-trophic species such as algae and shellfish, using lower-impact feed and farming methods.
Early independence: BBSRC fellowships: full stage
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for independent bioscience research in a host laboratory.
EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN) – Call for Startups 2026
🇪🇺EIT Food · European Union
Awards up to €50,000 to top agrifood and foodtech startups after a hub-based accelerator.
EIT Food Education Start-up Award
EIT Food · European Union
Pays up to 10 startups €4,000 each if they came out of an EIT Food Education programme.
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.
Farmer Collaboration Fund
🇬🇧Defra · United Kingdom
Funding for England-based organisations running farming collaboration groups.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Food Security Call — 6th
🇶🇦QRDI · Qatar
Supports food resilience research in Qatar through national calls on nutrition, farming systems, and climate adaptation.
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.
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%.
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.
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.