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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NIF Prototype Grants
🇺🇸NE DED · United States
Funds prototype development for Nebraska businesses turning ideas into first market-ready products.
Expeditions in Computing (Expeditions)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds NSF's largest computing awards — up to $15 million over seven years for a research agenda that looks a decade ahead.
NSF CAREER
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Supports early-career faculty in the United States to build independent research careers in science and engineering.
NSF REU — Sites and Supplements (Seed)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds undergraduate research cohort and supplement opportunities for students at United States universities.
Projects Peer Review Panel (PPRP) 2027
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Funding for large or complex projects in specified STFC scientific areas.
Wyoming State Trade Expansion Program
🇺🇸WBC · United States
Funds Wyoming small businesses entering international markets through STEP export reimbursement grants.
BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS): Specialized Projects for Scalable Technologies
NIH · United States
Funds technology anywhere in the connectomics pipeline — collection, reconstruction, analysis, dissemination — to make brain wiring diagrams faster and cheaper.
Catalyze Product Definition Medical Device prototype design/testing and disease target identification and assay development
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds building and testing an early medical-device prototype and its matching disease target or assay, for heart, lung, blood or sleep disease.
Catalyze: Product Definition Medical Device Prototype Optimization
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds refining a medical-device prototype's design, assays and research tools for heart, lung, blood or sleep disease.
NHLBI Catalyze — Reissue
🇺🇸NHLBI · United States
Supports NHLBI translational pathways toward first-in-human feasibility testing.
A+ Early-Stage Startup Grant Program
🇹🇼ITRI · Taiwan
Funds Taiwan early-stage technology startups moving from functional prototype to MVP validation and market landing.
Focused Technology Research and Development
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a project that develops a biomedical research technology and only that — no biological question attached.
Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Device Development for Mental Health Applications (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds a genuinely new brain stimulation device for mental health, or a hardware or software change that substantially improves an approved one.
Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Device Development for Mental Health Applications (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the exploratory version of next-generation brain stimulation device work for mental health, with the same floor on how much novelty counts.
NIBIB Small Grant Program
🇺🇸NIBIB · United States
Funds interdisciplinary technology projects for early biomedical engineering ideas at smaller budget scale.
NIH Blueprint MedTech Translator
🇺🇸NINDS · United States
Funds translational neurotechnology device development through structured milestones and multi-year collaboration.
Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement
🇺🇸CDC · United States
Funds research and engineering work that cuts injuries and deaths in commercial fishing, from vessel design to severe-weather detection.
Rural Jump-Start Program
🇺🇸OEDIT · United States
Funds rural Colorado start-ups with matching grants and tax-related growth support.
AFRL/RD Tactical BAA
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Funds directed energy development from early concept through advanced demonstration in defense applications.
JPMŽ — Young & Women Entrepreneurs
🇸🇮SPIRIT Slovenia · Slovenia
Funds young and women founders in Slovenia through a regional public programme for early enterprise launch.
NIH CRP Commercialization Readiness Pilot
🇺🇸NIH SEED · United States
Offers late stage commercialization readiness support through NIH CRP for small firms advancing biomedical health solutions.
DHS S&T LRBAA 24-01
🇺🇸DHS · United States
Runs research teams and institutions for DHS S&T LRBAA Submissions in cybersecurity, defense innovation, and artificial intelligence.
Loans CHANGE Grant Component
🇱🇹ILTE / INVEGA · Lithuania
Funds Lithuanian industrial companies adding digitised production equipment, sustainable production technology, or technology-audit support through an ILTE loan-linked grant.
Loans Perspective (Perspektyva)
🇱🇹ILTE / INVEGA · Lithuania
Provides innovation-focused loans for Lithuanian firms pursuing research development and pilot commercialization with supportive repayment terms.