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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 937-960 of 1,692 grants

Defense Innovation Unit logo
Closed

ROADS Prize Challenge

🇺🇸DIU · United States

Connects teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for ROADS Prize Challenge in robotics, defense innovation, and transport and mobility.

RoboticsDefense+3
$10M
NASA Tournament Lab logo
Closed

Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge

NTL · United States

Pays up to $155,000 across three phases for a new lunar rover wheel design.

SpaceHardware+1
$10K
Samsung R&D Institute India (SRI-B and SRI-N) logo
Closed

Samsung Mobile Advance

🇮🇳SRI-B & SRI-N · India

Gives Indian mobile-tech startups up to $50,000 in zero-equity grant funding.

AICybersecurity+2
$50K
PIEDS (Pilani Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Society) logo
Closed

Samvardhan 2026 Design Accelerator

🇮🇳PIEDS · India

Funds Indian healthcare-hardware startups up to Rs. 10 lakh via a 6-month design accelerator.

MedtechHardware
₹1M
Northeast Microelectronics Coalition logo
Closed

SCALE Capital: Massachusetts Lab-to-Fab Grant Program

🇺🇸NEMC · United States

Funds Massachusetts microelectronics teams moving lab-to-fab projects through SCALE Capital grants.

SemiconductorsAI+7
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Collaborative industrial research for quantum computing hardware and associated software.

QuantumHardware+1
£1M – £3.5M
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Scaling Supply Chains for Quantum Enabled Sensing and PNT

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK business-led consortia developing supply chains for quantum enabled sensing and positioning, navigation and timing technologies.

QuantumHardware+4
£4M – £6M
CORFO — Chilean Economic Development Agency (Corporación de Fomento de la Producción) logo
Closed

Semilla Expande para Empresas Lideradas por Mujeres

🇨🇱CORFO · Chile

Supports women-led Chilean companies with staged expansion financing to strengthen market-ready products after first sales.

AIAgritech+5
CLP 28.3M
CORFO — Chilean Economic Development Agency (Corporación de Fomento de la Producción) logo
Closed

Semilla Inicia para Empresas Lideradas por Mujeres

🇨🇱CORFO · Chile

Provides Semilla Inicia para Empresas Lideradas por Mujeres for practical innovation and measurable results.

AIAgritech+5
CLP 17M
Swiss Federal Office of Energy (BFE/OFEN) logo
Closed

SFOE Pilot and Demonstration Programme

🇨🇭BFE/OFEN · Switzerland

Funds Swiss energy pilot and demonstration projects that test technologies before market use.

Energy TechClimate Tech+6
Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission logo
Closed

Shanghai Sci-Tech Little Giant Project

🇨🇳STCSM · China

Supports Shanghai high-tech firms through the Little Giant programme via post-development innovation subsidy.

AISemiconductors+4
CN¥1M – CN¥1.5M
Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) logo
Closed

SNS experimental infrastructure

🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union

Funds one project to run the SNS JU's shared 6G experimental infrastructure for Phase 3, validating technologies from earlier SNS Stream B projects.

HardwareAI
€8M
SOFWERX (USSOCOM via DEFENSEWERX) logo
Closed

SOCOM SBIR Release 1

🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States

Supports two focused technical streams for special operations through dedicated defense research calls.

DefenseRobotics+2
SOFWERX (USSOCOM via DEFENSEWERX) logo
Closed

SOCOM SBIR Release 2

🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States

Supports a second special operations technical stream with parallel topics for urgent missions.

DefenseRobotics+2
SPRIND (Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen) logo
Closed

SPRIND Continuous Hormone Monitoring Challenge — Stage 1

🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany

Funds teams in Germany through a continuous hormone-monitoring challenge for advanced sensor development.

MedtechBiotech+2
€1.5M
SPRIND (Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen) logo
Closed

SPRIND Funke QuantumSense Exploration — Stage 1

🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany

Funds teams hunting for entirely new quantum systems that could be used as sensors.

QuantumHardware
€450K
SPRIND (Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen) logo
Closed

SPRIND Next Frontier AI Challenge — Stage 1

🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany

Funds German teams through frontier innovation programmes for AI and advanced prototype development.

AIHardware+1
€3M
SPRIND (Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen) logo
Closed

SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics Challenge — Stage 1

🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany

Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.

RoboticsHardware+1
€7.2M
National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technology Development & Innovation (Agencia I+D+i) logo
Closed

Startup TRL 3-4

🇦🇷Agencia I+D+i · Argentina

Funds Argentine deep-tech startups up to 7 years old developing proof-of-concept and early laboratory prototypes at TRL 3-4.

AIBiotech+10
$150K
IAPMEI — Agency for Competitiveness & Innovation (Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação) logo
Closed

STEP — Productive Innovation — Digital & Biotech (Inovação Produtiva — Digital e Biotecnologia)

🇵🇹IAPMEI · Portugal

Supports companies investing in critical digital, deep-tech and biotechnology manufacturing in eligible Portuguese regions.

AIBiotech+3
Strathclyde Inspire — University of Strathclyde logo
Closed

Strathclyde Inspire Innovation Challenge

🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom

Supports University of Strathclyde students with early startup ideas through a competition that rewards market-ready commercial thinking.

AIBiotech+5
£10K
Japan External Trade Organization logo
Closed

Subsidy for Projects to Stimulate Direct Investment in Japan

🇯🇵JETRO · Japan

Funds foreign enterprises with reimbursement support for demonstration and de-risking activities that attract direct investment.

AIBuilt Environment+6
¥20M
FHF — Fiskeri- og havbruksnæringens forskningsfinansiering logo
Closed

Tank and Model Data for Aquaculture Design Validation

FHF · Norway

Supports aquaculture design improvements by generating tank and model data that validate facility sizing and engineering calculations.

AgritechHardware
NOK 15M
James R. Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship logo
Closed

Tartan Entrepreneurs Fund

🇺🇸Swartz Center · United States

Funds Pittsburgh-based CMU alumni and faculty founders building high-growth startups with $100,000 in non-dilutive grant funding over two years.

AIBiotech+8
$100K

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