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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.

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Innosuisse — Swiss Innovation Agency logo
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Swiss Accelerator

🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland

Funds Swiss SMEs and start-ups already on the market to commercialise and scale innovation projects through Innosuisse direct grants.

CHF 2.5M
WI
Closed

2026 Flagship Fellowship

Watson Institute · United States

Offers impact entrepreneurs a free 16-week mentorship and leadership fellowship.

French National Research Agency logo
Closed

AAPG — Generic for Proposals

🇫🇷ANR · France

Funds French organizations through ANR's broad flagship call in multiple priority research themes.

King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology logo
Closed

Accelerating Research to Commercialisation (ARC)

🇸🇦KACST · Saudi Arabia

Funds accelerator support for Saudi research teams turning lab discoveries into market-ready products.

European Commission logo
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Adapting to and mitigating demographic trends in rural areas through evidence-based planning and innovative solutions

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds research and pilots that help rural communities plan for and adapt to demographic decline and ageing populations.

€6.5M
European Commission logo
Closed

Advancing lead markets and proof-of-concept for deep tech solutions contributing to EU Missions

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds proof-of-concept work on deep tech solutions relevant to the EU Missions, taking technologies up to TRL 7 while testing procurement and financing models that create lead markets for them.

€4M
CB
Closed

AI Startup Challenge 2026

🇺🇸CBS · United States

Awards $40K+ in prizes to grad students at Columbia, Cornell Tech, NYU or Yale pitching AI-driven startups.

DM
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AI Venture Velocity Challenge

🇺🇸Deloitte & Midjourney · United States

Awards $175,000 in cash prizes to student teams building AI-accelerated ventures.

$25K – $100K
28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) logo
Closed

Alumni Startup Competition

28DIGITAL · European Union

Awards a EUR 5,000 cash prize to the top EIT Digital alumni-founded startup.

€5K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Funds three-year fellowships for early-career researchers across all disciplines except medical research with salary and project support.

AUD 50K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Discovery Projects

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Funds Australian university teams developing long-term, university-led research through a two-stage concept pathway.

AUD 30K – AUD 500K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Future Fellowships

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Supports four-year fellowships for mid-career researchers in non-medical disciplines aligned with national science priorities.

AUD 60K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Linkage Projects

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Funds Australian universities and industry in co-funded projects with shared research contributions and partnership.

AUD 50K – AUD 300K
AG
Closed

Arch Grants Startup Competition

Arch Grants · United States

Awards $75,000 in equity-free funding to startups that relocate to St. Louis.

$75K
European Commission logo
Closed

Artificial Intelligence for knowledge valorisation

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Paid one European consortium EUR 2 million to build an AI-powered toolbox that helps researchers turn results into market-ready ventures, tested across at least 100 real cases.

€2M
European Commission logo
Closed

Assessment of Technology Infrastructure needs in Ukraine

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Paid one European consortium up to EUR 1.5 million to map Ukraine's technology-infrastructure capacity losses from the war and draft a post-war investment agenda.

€1M – €1.5M
GI
Closed

Assistance to Enroll and Participate in Acceleration Program (Gujarat Startup Scheme)

🇮🇳Gujarat Industries Dept · India

Funds Gujarat startups up to ₹3 lakh to join a recognized acceleration program.

₹300K
GI
Closed

Assistance to Startups having a Significant Impact on Society (Gujarat)

🇮🇳Gujarat Industries Dept · India

Funds Gujarat startups building innovative projects that create a measurable social impact.

₹1M
AEI — State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación) logo
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ATRAE Program — Established Talent Recruitment (Incorporación de talento consolidado)

🇪🇸AEI · Spain

Funds Spanish public research entities to recruit experienced international principal investigators and support their initial research activity.

€1.2M
European Commission logo
Closed

Attracting management talent for Technology Infrastructures

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds one coordination project, worth EUR 2.5 million, to bring in management talent and build sector-agnostic training for staff at Europe's technology infrastructures.

€2.5M
BP
Closed

Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition (BPW)

🇩🇪BPW · Germany

Awards up to €20,000 in prize money to startups founded in Berlin or Brandenburg.

€10K – €20K
LO
Closed

Big Bang Beauty Tech Innovation Program

L'Oréal · Singapore

Runs an open-innovation competition that pairs winning beauty-tech startups with a L'Oréal-funded co-pilot project, mentorship and a Singapore trip.

Banco Português de Fomento logo
Closed

BPF Program — Reconstruction Support (Apoio à Reconstrução)

🇵🇹BPF · Portugal

Funds storm-affected Portuguese businesses with emergency credit and reconstruction support for recovery.

€2.5M
European Commission logo
Closed

Bridging historical past and future potential through conservation, preservation, and adaptive use of Europe's contentious and dissonant heritage

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays one European network up to EUR 3.5 million to build a research agenda for preserving Europe's contested and dissonant heritage.

€2.5M – €3.5M

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