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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SPRIND R&D Grants
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds German teams through SPRIND grants with outcome linked support for technology development and testing pathways.
Sprint Grant for Small Companies
🇫🇮Business Finland · Finland
Funds Finnish small companies seeking fast growth in technology through focused commercial acceleration support.
Start-up Grant Phase 1 — Market Clarification
🇳🇴Innovation Norway · Norway
Funds young Norwegian start-ups validating market need and business feasibility in their early growth journey.
TechLeap Prize: Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds teams developing robotics technologies for payload manipulation in space through a NASA prize competition.
TÜBİTAK 1511 — Priority Areas Industrial R&D Grant (Seed)
🇹🇷TÜBİTAK · Türkiye
Supports Turkish industrial projects in priority themes including energy, cybersecurity, space, and advanced materials.
TÜBİTAK 1512 BiGG — Entrepreneurship Support Grant
🇹🇷TÜBİTAK · Türkiye
Offers Turkish founders and early startups with TÜBİTAK phased support for entrepreneurship readiness and commercialization.
UKRI International Science Partnerships Fund
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom researchers connecting globally through partnerships in planet, health, technology, and talent priorities via UKRI International Science Partnerships Fund.
Virginia Invests — LP Commitment
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Supports venture capital managers with commitments aimed at Virginia startup investment.
Wa'ed Ventures — Equity Investment
🇸🇦Wa'ed · Saudi Arabia
Invests in Saudi startup founders through Wa'ed Ventures, supporting early and growth-stage innovation across sectors.
ZIM Individual R&D Projects
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Supports German small and medium-sized enterprises with technology-neutral projects for new products, processes, and services.
Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism
🇺🇸a16z · United States
Invests in defense, aerospace, manufacturing, energy, and infrastructure companies supporting national interests.
French Tech Lab Grant
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Supports pre-creation deeptech ventures emerging from university research through team formation and business validation.
JIC Venture Growth Investments
🇯🇵JIC · Japan
Invests in growth-stage Japanese deep-tech ventures and funds, including climate, quantum, biotech, and space entrepreneurs.
Lockheed Martin Ventures
Lockheed Martin Corp · United States
Invests in hardware, aerospace, and defense innovation founders through a corporate venture platform tied to Lockheed Martin.
WIPANO Knowledge Transfer through Standardization
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies and public research organizations that convert publicly funded research into technical standards through joint WIPANO cooperation projects.
WIPANO Patenting for Companies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German small and medium-sized enterprises protecting their own research and development results with patents and other industrial property rights through WIPANO.
WIPANO Standards Participation for Companies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies with up to 1,000 employees taking part in national, European, and international standardization committees through WIPANO.
ZIM Feasibility Studies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German small businesses preparing technology concepts for future project development and commercialization planning.
ZIM Innovation Networks
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Supports German innovation ecosystems by funding management of networks that connect multiple companies and institutions.
Collaborative Earth Observation and SatCom Demonstrators
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds four €5–10M projects that prepare end-to-end Earth Observation and satellite-communications demonstrations for commercial space use.
Critical Space EEE Components for EU Independence
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €250–300k research project to rebuild secure European supply chains for critical space electronics and components.
Digital Autonomy for Space Transportation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €2–3M projects that bring autonomous flight, digital design and simulation tools to competitive European space transportation.
ISOS4I Ground Demonstrator and USI Qualification
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds up to €1M to ground-test ISOS4I mission systems and qualify a European interface for future in-space services.
Quantum Space Gravimetry
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €14–15M projects that mature quantum gravimeters for space and build Europe's next Earth-observation sensing capability.