Photonics grants
Explore grants for photonics companies. This directory covers funding for lasers, optics, integrated photonics, imaging and sensing, optical communications and photonic manufacturing, from research councils, innovation agencies and photonics industry programs.
Showing 385-408 of 866 grants
Germany KfW ERP Digital Innovation Loans
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds German enterprises through KfW structures for digital innovation and expansion financing.
High-Tech Founders Fund (High-Tech Gründerfonds, HTGF)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Backs deep technology and medtech startups in Germany with investment and follow-on support through High-Tech Gründerfonds.
Hustler Fund
🇰🇪Hustler Fund · Kenya
Supports Kenyan entrepreneurs, groups, and small businesses with mobile-delivered microcredit for working capital and growth.
Innovate UK EDGE Growth Loans
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds United Kingdom small companies with EDGE growth loans for scalable innovation.
Italy Smart&Start Italia
🇮🇹Invitalia (MIMIT) · Italy
Funds Italian innovation teams with support and grants for early ventures in digital and industrial technology.
KfW ERP Innovation Loan (ERP-Förderkredit Innovation, 513/514)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Supports German manufacturers with subsidised innovation financing for innovation modernization.
MBRIF Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund
🇦🇪MBRIF · United Arab Emirates
Funds innovation ventures in the United Arab Emirates with capital and enterprise support for scalable ideas.
MSMEDA Innovation and Enterprise Programs
🇪🇬MSMEDA · Egypt
Funds Egyptian micro, small, and medium enterprises through wholesale loans and partner financial institutions.
NIDHI Entrepreneur-in-Residence
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds entrepreneurs and innovators developing technology business ideas through NIDHI EIR.
SFC Student Placement Innovation Vouchers
🇬🇧SFC · United Kingdom
Funds Scottish SMEs extending academic collaborations through SFC-backed student placement vouchers.
State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI)
🇺🇸SC JEDA · United States
Administers federal small business support through JEDA by channelling funds into credit support for South Carolina enterprises.
Taxable Bond Program
🇺🇸SC JEDA · United States
Provides taxable conduit bond financing through JEDA for additional South Carolina projects outside tax exempt categories.
Voucher 3I — Invest in Innovation (Voucher 3I — Investire in Innovazione)
🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy
Funds Italian companies for patent development support through a recurring voucher pathway.
Collaborative Program Grant for Multidisciplinary Teams
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds a single ambitious research project that needs several investigators with different expertise working as one team, not separate grants.
Technology Infrastructure Access for European Startups
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €1.5–2.5M actions that give European startups and SMEs simpler access to advanced research and technology infrastructure.
Invitational Fellowships — 2nd Recruitment (Short-term only)
🇯🇵JSPS · Japan
Supports Japan researchers with structured pathways in short invitation fellowships for global exchange, from planning to deployment.
Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – development of complementarities, synergies and/or integration between a set of pan-European research infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds complementary services, synergies and integration across Europe’s major research infrastructures.
Reinforcing synergies between experimentation spaces and innovation procurement
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds public buyers to test and procure breakthrough solutions with experimentation spaces and regulators.
Ramón y Cajal Program (RYC)
🇪🇸AEI · Spain
Funds long-term postdoctoral research contracts in Spain under a competitive talent program.
ERC Consolidator Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds researchers 5 to 15 years past their PhD who are building an independent research team in Europe through an ERC Consolidator Grant.
ERC Synergy Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds teams of two to four principal investigators carrying out joint frontier research in any scientific field through ERC Synergy Grants.
Wyoming State Trade Expansion Program
🇺🇸WBC · United States
Funds Wyoming small businesses entering international markets through STEP export reimbursement grants.
America's Seed Fund: Iowa
🇺🇸IEDA · United States
Funds Iowa small businesses pursuing federal SBIR and STTR awards through proposal support and grants totaling up to $75,000.
Classic Innovation Advance
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French SMEs and mid-sized companies pursuing high-uncertainty innovation with a recoverable advance.