Space grants
Explore grants for space companies. This directory brings together funding for launch and propulsion, satellites and constellations, earth observation, navigation, in-orbit services and space science, from space agencies, research councils and commercial space programs.
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NC BEC GROWTH
🇺🇸NC IDEA · United States
Backs Black-led North Carolina entrepreneurs through follow-on support linked to prior startup seed recognition.
New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program
🇺🇸US Treasury · United States
Administers New Markets Tax Credit allocations through Community Development Entities to attract private investment in low-income communities.
Next Startupper Award
VivaTech · France
Pays the winning student entrepreneur a €5,000 prize plus VIP passes and a Main Stage pitch slot at VivaTech in Paris.
NIDHI Seed Support Program (NIDHI-SSP) — Call 2
🇮🇳IKP EDEN · India
Pays Indian tech startups up to Rs. 1 crore in seed funding to hit product and market milestones.
NIDHI-Seed Support System (SSS)
🇮🇳Amity Incubator · India
Funds up to Rs. 50 lakh in equity-free seed money for early-stage startups.
Non-thematic development actions by SMEs
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays SMEs a lump-sum grant to develop any innovative defence product or technology of their own choosing, including civil tech adapted for defence.
Non-thematic research actions by SMEs and research organisations
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays SMEs and research organisations a lump-sum grant to research any innovative defence technology of their own choosing.
Non-thematic research actions targeting disruptive technologies for defence
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays for high-risk, high-reward research into any radically new defence technology that breaks with current approaches.
Novel circular business models to enable the just transition to a sustainable and circular economy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies and researchers that build and demonstrate at scale new circular business models — reuse, repair, sharing, product-as-a-service.
Open Pitch
OOF · United States
Pays one early-stage startup $125,000 for winning a live pitch at Invest Fest.
Open strategic autonomy, economic and research security in EU foreign policy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects up to EUR 3.5 million that build the EU's evidence base on open strategic autonomy and research security.
Open Topic: Innovative solutions for the sustainable and circular transformation of SMEs
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds open-topic solutions — from AI tools to new business models — that help SMEs cut resource use and comply with green-transition rules.
P2R 2026 – Incentives for Start-Up of Companies in Border Problem Areas
🇸🇮SEF · Slovenia
Pays new Slovenian companies in border regions a EUR 30,000 lump sum start-up grant.
Patents
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels SMEs filing national or PCT international patents for their R&D results, covering 50 percent of patent application and procedure costs.
PCIEERD Capability Development Program — ExperTISE + GODDESS
🇵🇭DOST · Philippines
Offers capacity-building and training support for Philippine science and technology institutions through PCIEERD grants.
Pilot initiatives on Technology Infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Paid five European projects between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to map a chosen technology area's infrastructure gaps and propose an EU-level plan to close them.
Preparatory actions exploring future frameworks for research infrastructures investment plans and funding streams, for integrated and sustained scheme for access and for joint technology development
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one preparatory study, chosen from three named areas, mapping future funding, access or joint technology models for European research infrastructures.
Preparing the EU for future enlargement: challenges and opportunities
🇦🇱European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects up to EUR 3.5 million that study how the EU and citizens can prepare for future enlargement rounds.
Princeton New Industrial Collaborations Fund
🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States
Funds Princeton science and engineering faculty starting new industry research partnerships through two-year grants.
Proof of Business
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies developing their first technologically innovative prototype or service, covering 50 to 70 percent of the budget for technical and economic validation.
Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge
🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom
Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.
Queens Tech & Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸QEDC · United States
Awards up to $20,000 each to five early-stage entrepreneurs with strong Queens ties.
R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools, methods, digitalisation and solutions for research infrastructure upgrades
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D for new scientific instruments, tools and digitalisation that upgrade European research infrastructures, co-developed with industry.
R&D Projects
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies doing industrial research, experimental development, or process innovation through grants covering 15 to 70 percent of project costs.