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.
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Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for NSWC Crane
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds early-stage research and technology demonstrators across NSWC Crane's electronic warfare, sensors and power-systems missions.
Low-Cost Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (LC CSAC)
🇺🇸AMC · United States
Funds one or more for-profit teams building a low-cost, battery-powered chip-scale atomic clock for the Army.
Montana STEP Export Grant
🇺🇸MT Commerce · United States
Funds Montana small businesses exporting deep-tech products internationally through reimbursement of trade shows, compliance testing, IP filings, e-commerce, and market research costs.
MPS Materials Research Programs (MPS Materials)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds eight NSF materials programmes through one door — ceramics, polymers, metals, biomaterials and more, across 300 awards.
MPS Physics Research Programs (MPS Physics)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds every NSF physics programme through one door — quantum information, particle physics, plasma, gravity and more, from $180 million.
NEI SBIR Phase I — Feasibility
🇺🇸NEI · United States
Supports United States. small businesses testing vision concepts through feasibility-focused grants.
NEI SBIR Phase II — R&D
🇺🇸NEI · United States
Supports United States. small businesses scaling vision concepts into full development pathways.
NEI STTR Phase I — Feasibility
🇺🇸NEI · United States
Funds small business and research-partner teams on feasibility vision tools for future commercialization.
NEI STTR Phase II — R&D
🇺🇸NEI · United States
Funds collaborative small-business partnerships to mature vision innovation into market-ready healthcare technologies.
NEMC PROPEL Round 4
🇺🇸NEMC · United States
Funds microelectronics prototype development in the northeastern United States through staged support.
NIBIB P41 BTRR National Centers — Renewal
🇺🇸NIBIB · United States
Funds national biomedical technology centers that build shared resources for advanced research infrastructure.
NIH Common Fund Venture Program — Open Funding (Seed)
🇺🇸NIH Common Fund · United States
Supports high-potential short- to medium-range initiatives that can seed major breakthroughs.
NIST BAA — Cooperative Agreements
🇺🇸NIST · United States
Offers external-research support through NIST-linked opportunities in measurement science and standards.
NSTDA Chair Professor Program
🇹🇭NSTDA · Thailand
Supports top Thai teams through selective chair professor appointments and advanced projects.
OCC Ventures
🇬🇧Edinburgh Innovations · United Kingdom
Backs University of Edinburgh associated companies through OCC Ventures with seed and Series A co-investment.
PIFI (President's International Fellowship Initiative)
🇨🇳CAS · China
Funds international researcher fellowships across career stages and global placements.
R&D Career Grant
🇳🇿Callaghan Innovation · New Zealand
Funds New Zealand for-profit companies hiring recent Masters or PhD graduates into 6-month R&D roles.
R&D Experience Grant
🇳🇿Callaghan Innovation · New Zealand
Funds New Zealand for-profit companies hiring tertiary students into short-term R&D internship roles.
Seed Capital Investment Program (SCIP)
🇺🇸AEDC · United States
Invests in Arkansas technology companies with flexible financing structures through debt, equity, or royalty arrangements.
Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) — Company Certification
🇬🇧HMRC · United Kingdom
Offers United Kingdom start-up founders investment support through certified tax relief for early innovation and development.
Silicon Carbide (SiC) Packaging Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for Silicon Carbide Packaging Prize Competition in energy systems, semiconductors, and photonics.
SMART Innovation Funding
🇬🇧Business Wales · United Kingdom
Funds Wales-based businesses of all sizes to research and develop new products, processes, or services through discretionary Welsh Government R&D grants.
SMART Partnerships
🇬🇧Business Wales · United Kingdom
Funds collaborative R&D between Wales-based businesses and knowledge-base partners, with the Welsh Government covering 100% of the academic or research partner's eligible costs.
SMART: SCOTLAND
🇬🇧Scottish Enterprise · United Kingdom
Funds Scottish SMEs conducting high-risk feasibility studies to prove out novel technologies through Scottish Enterprise R&D grants.