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.
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Atal New India Challenge
🇮🇳AIM · India
Funds Indian startups and MSMEs productizing advanced technologies through AIM milestone grants.
Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition: Deployment Trials
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK business-led collaborations running real-world deployment trials of clean maritime technologies through Innovate UK match grants.
DOE SMASH Incubator
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Funds U.S. for-profit organizations and partners developing solar module and non-module hardware through RD&D projects.
EIC Pathfinder Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
IPCEI Advanced Semiconductor Technologies Call
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French companies and research partners developing advanced semiconductor technologies through case-by-case state aid.
NASA SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses conducting early-stage R&D to establish the feasibility of innovations aligned with NASA mission priorities.
NASA STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their research institution partners conducting early-stage space technology R&D through NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer program.
NASA TechLeap Prize: Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge
🇺🇸NASA Flight Opportunities · United States
Funds developers of payloads that can be manipulated by a robotic arm in low Earth orbit with cash prizes and a hosted orbital flight test.
28DIGITAL Venture Incubation Program
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.
6G Devices
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds a coordination and support action to build a European roadmap and industrial strategy for simplified, RedCap-style 5G/6G devices ahead of the next EU research framework.
6G Telco Cloud and Service Provision Enablers
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds one project to build an evolvable 6G telco-cloud experimental infrastructure that hosts and validates network functions and AI/Compute/Security-as-a-Service.
8th Open Challenge Program (OCP)
🇮🇳EP-BBSR · India
Offers seed funding and incubation support to India's ESDM startups.
A European Benchmarking Framework for hybrid quantum-classical computing
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build an open benchmarking framework for hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing systems.
A European HPC-centric Benchmark Framework
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build a unified, open benchmarking framework and suite for exascale and AI-capable supercomputers.
Accelerating Physical AI: Embodied Intelligence for the Next Frontier of AI-Powered Robotics
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays physical-AI robotics teams a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate a prototype and then build it into a real-world-tested system.
Advance Queensland Private Sector Pathways Program
🇦🇺QLD Government · Australia
Funds Queensland small and medium enterprises running co-funded innovation trials with corporate partners.
Advanced Architectures Systems and Technologies
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds 6G network-architecture research on simplified control/user-plane designs, constrained AI for network operations, and serverless multi-domain service orchestration.
Advanced IoT and Device Technologies
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds research on near-zero-energy 6G IoT devices, unlicensed-band 6G connectivity, and next-generation connected IoT applications.
Advancing atmospheric and aerial autonomy
🇬🇧NERC · United Kingdom
Proof-of-concept support for autonomous environmental observing capability.
Advancing Discovery to Market
🇺🇸Texas A&M Innovation · United States
Funds Texas A&M teams translating early discoveries through commercialization support and enterprise readiness.
Affordable and sustainable primary equipment for Future-Ready multi-terminal HVDC Systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds development of affordable, SF6-free primary equipment — circuit breakers, cables and converters — for multi-terminal HVDC grids.
Alaska SBIR/STTR Matching Grant
🇺🇸AK DCCED / AIDEA · United States
Supports Alaska small businesses with federal innovation awards using state match funding to strengthen commercialization.
American-Made Heliostat Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. innovators developing and demonstrating heliostat components through a DOE prize competition under the American-Made Challenges program.