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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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.
STEP — Productive Innovation — Digital & Biotech (Inovação Produtiva — Digital e Biotecnologia)
🇵🇹IAPMEI · Portugal
Supports small businesses in Portugal to build critical digital and biotechnology manufacturing operations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TattvaX Cohort 2
🇮🇳i-Hub & SanchiConnect · India
Backs Indian deeptech startups in space, defence and drones with mentorship and pilots.
Technology Development Grant
🇶🇦QNRF · Qatar
Funds companies conducting R&D for new products, processes, or services through QRDI technology development grants.
TIQ Market Accelerator Program
🇦🇺QLD Government · Australia
Supports Queensland small businesses entering export markets through matched assistance for trade missions and international promotion.
U.S. DOT SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸US DOT · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses testing the feasibility of transportation R&D innovations for DOT mission needs.
U.S. DOT SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸US DOT · United States
Funds prior DOT Phase I awardees to continue transportation R&D and commercialization work through Phase II.
UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK businesses doing joint R&D in specific technology areas with Swiss partners through Innovate UK bilateral competition rounds.
Verizon Community Disaster Resilience Innovation Accelerator
🇺🇸MassChallenge · United States
Supports teams solving disaster resilience with advances in analytics, communications, autonomy, power, sensing, and prediction technologies.
Villum Young Investigator
🇩🇰Villum Fonden · Denmark
Funds early-career scientists in Denmark to build independent teams, leadership, and long-running research programmes.
Wireless Communication Technologies and Signal Processing – Standardisation and Follow-up/PoCs
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds 6G physical-layer and radio-access research — spectrum efficiency, massive MIMO, AI-native RAN — aimed at proof-of-concept systems and international standards contributions.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity — Active Phase
XPRIZE · United States
Supports water-solvers advancing desalination systems and infrastructure for severe scarcity conditions.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity — Track A: Desalination: System-Level Innovation
XPRIZE · United States
Awards up to $40 million for a system that makes large-scale seawater desalination affordable.
Business Energy Advice Service
🇬🇧WMCA · United Kingdom
Funds West Midlands SMEs implementing energy-efficiency measures after a business energy assessment.
Foundational Economy Innovation Fund Scale Up Phase
GMCA · United Kingdom
Funds FEIF testing grantees scaling everyday-economy innovation projects through follow-on grants.
Foundational Economy Innovation Fund Testing Phase
GMCA · United Kingdom
Funds Greater Manchester businesses testing everyday-economy innovation projects through FEIF grants.
Konza Smart Access Control Innovation Challenge
🇮🇱KoTDA · Kenya
Funds Israeli-led startups building smart access-control solutions through a Konza challenge prize.
NJEDA HAX Plasma Forge co-investment
🇺🇸NJEDA · United States
Offers New Jersey hardware innovators co-investment support, technical mentorship, and market access through public program pilots.
Parkwalk EIS University Funds
🇬🇧Parkwalk Advisors · United Kingdom
Supports Parkwalk EIS and university founders with strategic innovation funds for early ventures.
NASA TechFlights
🇺🇸NASA Flight Opportunities · United States
Funds U.S.-based industry, academia, and non-profit organizations flight-testing space technologies on commercial suborbital and orbital vehicles.