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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BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization- Next Generation Sensor Technology Development
NIH · United States
Funds next-generation sensors and bioelectronic devices that record behaviour in step with brain recordings, to build models of how the two connect.
Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization — Next Gen Sensor Technology Development
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports neural behavior-sensing technology development through translational cooperative projects.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CHIPS R&D BAA — White Paper
🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States
Funds microelectronics teams in the United States through CHIPS BAA with practical support for near market technology development.
Air Dominance BAA
🇺🇸AFRL/RW · United States
Funds air dominance innovation in sensing, autonomy, and engagement systems for national security priorities.
US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Broad Agency Announcement
AMC · United States
Funds Army research proposals across soldier feeding, protection, biomechanics and training technology on a rolling basis.
Research Development and Innovation Fund
🇮🇳TDB · India
Funds Indian companies and startups scaling RDI-intensive technologies through concessional loans and equity.
DIU Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO)
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Funds commercial companies prototyping advanced technology for US defense through fast Other Transaction agreements.
ERP Digitalization Loan and Grant (511/512)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds companies and freelancers in Germany delivering digitalization projects with subsidized loans and grants up to €200,000.