Hardware grants
Explore grants for hardware companies. This directory covers funding for electronics and device development, sensors, embedded systems, prototyping and small-batch production, from innovation agencies, research programs and manufacturers’ partnership schemes, alongside grants open to any sector.
Showing 25-48 of 1,692 grants
Texas Enterprise Zone Program
🇺🇸Texas Comptroller · United States
Funds businesses in Texas Enterprise Zones with tax-advantaged support tied to growth-oriented capital deployment.
AFOSR YIP
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports early-career researchers in the United States through long-term federal science initiatives.
Cluster Acceleration Programme — Phase 1
🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom
Supports Northern Ireland small and medium enterprise-led cluster groups to test collaborative business models before entering growth phases.
CNPq MAI/DAI — Industry-University Innovation Fellowships
🇧🇷CNPq · Brazil
Funds industry-university fellowships linking graduate students with company teams to strengthen real-world implementation.
One-Step, Rapid, Low-Cost Definitive Drug Testing at the Point of Need Challenge
🇺🇸NIDA · United States
Pays up to $600,000 in prizes to teams building rapid, low-cost drug-testing device prototypes.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.
Transferable Audio-Visual Equipment on Rail Replacement Coaches
🇬🇧DfT · United Kingdom
Reimbursement for transferable AV equipment on rail replacement coaches.
Build the Autodesk University 2027 Product
🇺🇸Autodesk & Partners · United States
Awards $4,000+ in cash and hardware for the best wearable built with Autodesk Fusion and Arduino UNO Q.
AFRL/RD HPEM Modeling and Effects BAA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Funds high-power electromagnetics modeling and effects research to strengthen defense science over time.
TTO Office Wide (OW) BAA 2025
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds hardware and platform proposals across DARPA's Tactical Technology Office, covering four focus areas from rapid builds to disruptive concepts.
SIID — Internationalization of R&D
🇵🇹ANI · Portugal
Supports Portuguese organizations to expand innovation internationally through global partnerships.
BNDES Mais Inovação (More Innovation)
🇧🇷BNDES · Brazil
Funds Brazilian enterprises with concessional credit for manufacturing and connected technologies.
CDG Josef Ressel Centres
🇦🇹CDG · Austria
Funds applied-research centres through public-industry co-financed long-term partnerships to strengthen real-world implementation.
Estrdad Government Fee Refund Initiative
🇸🇦Monsha'at · Saudi Arabia
Funds Saudi startups by refunding selected government fees and patent-registration costs.
First Factory — December Round (Première Usine, relève décembre)
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds first-factory scale-up for innovative manufacturers moving toward production readiness.
VFF Early Stage Financing
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Supports early-stage venture financing that helps start-ups turn prototypes into scalable, innovation-driven products.
Oceanographic Facilities and Equipment Support
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds the ships, instruments and technical crews that make US ocean research possible — procurement, upgrades and annual operation.
TTAC Proof of Concept Program
🇺🇸LaunchTN · United States
Offers early-stage Tennessee innovators proof-of-concept support to de-risk and validate commercialization ideas.
National Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program (BREP) - FY2026/27
🇺🇸NOAA · United States
Funds designing and testing fishing gear that reduces bycatch and post-release deaths in US commercial and recreational fisheries.
BRAIN Initiative: Preclinical Proof of Concept for Novel Recording and Modulation Technologies in the Human CNS
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a novel recording or modulation technology for the human central nervous system from proof of concept up to readiness for first-in-human studies.
Preclinical Proof of Concept for Novel Recording/Modulation Technologies in Human CNS
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds preclinical testing for novel neural recording and modulation technologies before clinical transition.
Translational Neural Devices
NIH · United States
Funds a therapeutic or diagnostic device for the nervous system through prototyping, safety testing, regulatory clearance and a first small clinical study.
Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds research infrastructure between $4 million and $20 million — the gap between an instrument grant and a national facility.
EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI-2026/27): Wave-Based Computing ( EFRI-WBC)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds computing that runs on wave dynamics rather than switches — exploratory grants, or four-year projects up to $2 million.