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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.