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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TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) Scheme
🇮🇳IIMV FIELD · India
Awards up to INR 4 lakh in grants plus a year of incubation to India-based tech startups.
Towards a European research hub on contemporary antisemitism and Jewish life and culture
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one European network up to EUR 3.5 million to build a research hub on contemporary antisemitism and Jewish life.
Trade Relations Programme (TRP) 2026
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Trade and Innovate NL network members to run export-support activities for Dutch firms.
Training and up-skilling of research infrastructures technical staff
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one-stop-shop training programmes that build the technical, digital and career skills of staff who run Europe's research infrastructures.
Transaction Costs Support for social finance intermediaries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays social finance intermediaries in the EU and ESF+ Associated Countries to cover due-diligence, legal and business-development costs on risk-capital investments under €1 million into social enterprises.
UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.
Unicorn Bridge
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds high-growth Korean technology companies scaling overseas, raising global capital, and preparing for public markets.
Value creation pilots for scaling up innovative solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Paid one European consortium EUR 2 million to test at least 10 transdisciplinary pilots preparing mature research results for scale-up across Europe.
VentureWell's Accelerator Programming
🇺🇸VentureWell · United States
Gives student innovators and startups up to $25,000 in grants plus mentorship and investor access.
Virginia R&D Expenses + Major R&D Tax Credit
🇺🇸VA TAX · United States
Funds Virginia companies through income tax credits for qualifying innovation as a legacy incentive.
Volunteering in support of humanitarian aid operations
🇪🇺EACEA · European Union
Pays organisations to place young volunteers aged 18-35 in humanitarian aid operations in non-EU countries.
Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas 2026
🇪🇺EACEA · European Union
Pays organisations to run volunteer teams tackling preparedness, disadvantaged youth, or intergenerational fairness in high-priority areas.
Voucher V1 – Business Delegations Abroad
🇸🇮SEF · Slovenia
Reimburses Slovenian SMEs up to EUR 2,000 for joining official trade delegations abroad.
Vouchers for Startups - New Digital and Technological Products
🇵🇹IAPMEI & Startup PT · Portugal
Funds Portuguese startups €30,000 to build new digital and tech products.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Water Innovation Fund · United Kingdom
Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.
WISE SNDTWU Incubation Cohort
🇮🇳WISE SNDTWU · India
Pays up to Rs 50 lakh in seed funding to DPIIT-recognized Indian startups.
Women Startup Challenge: Tech Startup Grant
Women Who Tech · United States
Awarded $20,000 in equity-free grants to women-led tech startups after a live investor pitch.
Women Tech.EU initiative
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one consortium up to EUR 15 million to run the Women TechEU scheme, which itself re-grants up to EUR 75,000 to individual women-led deep-tech startups.
Working time reduction: barriers, challenges, benefits and policy implications
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects worth EUR 3.4 million each that study the economic, social and environmental effects of reduced working time.
WV First Small Business Growth Program
🇺🇸WV Tax Division · United States
Backs licensed growth investors in West Virginia to structure capital support for local small businesses.
Youth Startup Innovation Award 2026
Moonshot · United States
Gives young founders up to $10,000 equity-free, plus a two-year accelerator journey.
Business Finland Young Innovative Companies (NIY)
🇫🇮Business Finland · Finland
Provides staged grant funding to Finnish technology companies advancing early-stage products.
Germany KfW ERP Digital Innovation Loans
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds German enterprises through KfW structures for digital innovation and expansion financing.