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 49-72 of 1,692 grants
John R. Evans Leaders Fund
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds Canadian investigator infrastructure for flagship science outcomes through national competition.
Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds instrument development for ocean science — with a standing open door for unsolicited proposals that widen what the field can measure.
Key electronic components
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays European manufacturers to expand production capacity for the electronic components that bottleneck drone, missile and defence-electronics supply chains.
SEED Research Program
🇺🇸UW Entrepreneurship Hub + WiSys · United States
Funds UW Madison spin-out research teams to advance commercialization through faculty-led projects.
Air Delivered Effects BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Supports United States. air-delivered munitions research through DoD broad announcements and cooperative agreements.
IQ ESSOR — Investment Feasibility and Digital Diagnostics (Volet 1)
🇨🇦IQ · Canada
Funds Quebec for-profit companies conducting feasibility studies or digital diagnostics to prepare major investment projects.
NCATS STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NCATS · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their nonprofit research partners to conduct feasibility studies on translational science innovations toward commercialization.
NCATS STTR Phase II
🇺🇸NCATS · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their nonprofit research partners to continue and expand translational R&D begun in STTR Phase I toward a commercial product.
NCI SBIR/STTR Omnibus (Next Receipt 5)
🇺🇸NCI · United States
Supports small businesses developing cancer technologies through national NIH collaboration pathways.
NHLBI SBIR/STTR — Standard
🇺🇸NHLBI · United States
Supports small businesses advancing heart, lung, blood, and sleep-related technologies through NHLBI.
NIDCD SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NIDCD · United States
Supports United States. small businesses developing hearing, balance, and speech sensory technologies.
NIDCD SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NIDCD · United States
Funds follow-up development for small businesses extending early sensory communication technologies into practical products.
NIDCR SBIR/STTR
🇺🇸NIDCR · United States
Supports United States. small businesses developing dental, oral, and craniofacial health technologies.
NIEHS SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NIEHS · United States
Supports United States. small businesses building environmental health technologies at feasibility stage.
NIEHS SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NIEHS · United States
Supports United States. small businesses scaling environmental health technologies toward full development.
NIH SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NIH SEED · United States
Funds early stage United States biomedical teams through NIH seed support for feasibility work on prototype ready ideas.
NIH SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NIH SEED · United States
Supports United States biomedical small businesses advancing successful feasibility work into scale-up development.
NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory - Quantum Testbeds
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds quantum technology testbeds that put real end-users inside the development cycle — $32 million, with industry partners welcome.
MURI (AFOSR)
🇺🇸AFOSR · United States
Supports multidisciplinary university consortia tackling mission challenges in Air Force research domains.
Eureka Cluster Xecs — Dutch National Cofinancing
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch-led electronics consortia up to EUR 4 million within international Xecs projects.
Launch Platforms for New Ideas (Platformy startowe dla nowych pomysłów)
🇵🇱PARP · Poland
Supports idea-stage entrepreneurs establishing innovative companies in Eastern Poland regions.
SIFIDE (filing)
ANI · Portugal
Funds Portuguese hardware innovation through continuous incentive mechanisms for firms.
Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization — Next Gen Sensor Technology Development
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports neural behavior-sensing technology development through translational cooperative projects.
BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization- Next Generation Sensor Technology Development
NIH · United States
Funds next-generation sensors and bioelectronic devices that record behaviour in step with brain recordings, to build models of how the two connect.