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Quantum grants

Explore grants for quantum technology companies. This directory brings together funding for quantum computing hardware and software, quantum sensing, quantum communications and the enabling components behind them, from national quantum programs, research councils and defense research agencies.

Showing 25-48 of 1,103 grants

EJ
Open

Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation

🇳🇴EuroHPC JU · European Union

Funds a coordination action that benchmarks quantum-sensor navigation technology and builds an investment-ready roadmap for EIB follow-on funding.

QuantumAerospace
€400K – €500KSep'26
EJ
Open

Large-Scale Photonic Quantum Computing Platform Technologies

🇳🇴EuroHPC JU · European Union

Funds a startup-led consortium building a scalable photonic quantum computing platform toward 1,000 qubits by 2030.

QuantumPhotonics
€9.5M – €10MSep'26
NVIDIA Corporation logo
Open

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program

NVIDIA · United States

Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.

AIQuantum+2
Sep'26
FWO (Flemish Research Foundation) logo
Open

Odysseus Programme

🇧🇪FWO · Belgium

Funds internationally focused research talent moving to Flanders with comprehensive support.

AIBiotech+7
€500K – €3.5MSep'26
EJ
Open

Standards for Quantum Technologies

🇳🇴EuroHPC JU · European Union

Funds one coordination action that drafts European and international standards for quantum computing, sensing and communication.

Quantum
€900K – €1MSep'26
Dutch Research Council (NWO) logo
Open

Take-off Phase 2 — Early-Stage Loan (Vroegefasetraject)

🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands

Invests Netherlands firms in knowledge startups building commercialization-ready products through structured financing and growth-oriented milestones.

AgritechAI+14
€50K – €450KSep'26
Swiss National Science Foundation logo
Open

SNSF Project Funding

🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland

Funds Swiss individual and team science projects across strategic research areas.

AIBiotech+5
CHF 100K – CHF 250KOct'26
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada logo
Open

NSERC Alliance Quantum Grants

🇨🇦NSERC · Canada

Funds Canadian academic and industrial consortia advancing quantum computing, communications, and sensing technologies.

Quantum
CAD 100K – CAD 650KOct'26
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Open

Japan-UK Joint call for collaborations in Advanced Connectivity Technologies

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Collaborative UK-Japan research in advanced connectivity technologies.

AIIoT & Edge+4
£1.1MOct'26
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) logo
Open

FFG COMET Projects

🇦🇹FFG · Austria

Supports Austrian academia and firms through collaborative innovation projects that turn research outputs into commercial solutions.

AerospaceAI+11
€2.7MOct'26
European Commission logo
Open

ERC Starting Grant

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds early-career researchers building an independent research team and pursuing frontier research through an ERC Starting Grant hosted at a public or private research organisation.

BiotechAI+5
€1.5MOct'26
Research Council of Finland logo
Open

EuroHPC Matching Funds Call (Invited Applicants)

🇫🇮RCF · Finland

Funds Finnish groups in EuroHPC consortia for AI and quantum high-performance computing initiatives.

AIQuantum
Oct'26
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency logo
Open

DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI)

🇺🇸DARPA · United States

Funds United States quantum technology research aiming for scalable, error-corrected computing breakthroughs.

DefenseQuantum+1
$2M – $50MOct'26
Innovation Fund Denmark (Innovationsfonden) logo
Open

Innobooster Grant

🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark

Funds Danish small businesses and entrepreneurs for knowledge based technology development with co investment support.

AgritechAI+15
DKK 200K – DKK 5MOct'26
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space logo
Open

KMU-innovativ — Stichtag

🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany

Funds German small and medium enterprises pursuing high-impact innovation in AI, climate, energy, and built environments.

AIBiotech+9
Oct'26
Internal Revenue Service logo
Open

R&D Tax Credit — Income Tax Credit (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed

🇺🇸IRS · United States

Supports established United States companies with income tax credits tied to qualified innovation spending.

AIBiotech+14
$1Oct'26
Internal Revenue Service logo
Open

R&D Tax Credit — QSB Payroll Offset (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed

🇺🇸IRS · United States

Supports United States small businesses through payroll tax offsets when they fund qualifying innovation activity.

AIBiotech+14
$1 – $500KOct'26
Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space logo
Open

The KMU-innovativ funding programme

🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany

Funds R&D projects at German SMEs and research institutions with rates up to 100%.

BiotechMedtech+6
Oct'26
Department of the Air Force logo
Open

AFRL/RX Functional Materials Open BAA

🇺🇸Air Force · United States

Supports advanced functional materials research in the United States through Air Force opportunities.

Advanced MaterialsPhotonics+3
Oct'26
European Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Pathfinder Challenges

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.

AIBiotech+5
€4MOct'26
Canada Foundation for Innovation logo
Open

CIRIF Intake 1

🇨🇦CFI · Canada

Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.

AIQuantum+8
CAD 6MOct'26
São Paulo Research Foundation (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, FAPESP) logo
Open

FAPESP / M-ERA.NET — Materials & Engineering

🇧🇷FAPESP · Brazil

Funds transnational materials and engineering collaborations between Brazilian and international partners.

Advanced MaterialsEnergy Tech+4
R$600KNov'26
European Defence Fund (DG DEFIS) logo
Open

EDF Research Actions

🇪🇺EDF · European Union

Funds collaborative European defense research consortia delivering disruptive solutions across security, space, and quantum technologies.

DefenseAI+7
€3M – €80MNov'26
European Defence Fund (DG DEFIS) logo
Open

EUDIS (Disruptive Technologies and SME Calls)

🇪🇺EDF · European Union

Supports small and medium defense innovators across Europe through development calls, coaching, and early-stage consortium opportunities.

DefenseAI+6
€500K – €10MNov'26

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