Cash grants
Explore cash grants for companies and research teams. This directory lists non-dilutive funding paid out as a grant, from government innovation agencies, research councils, foundations and corporate programs, for research, product development and scale-up, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing.
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VVISDP — Rural Community Networks, City of uMhlathuze
🇿🇦TIA · South Africa
Supports community broadband and wireless networks in rural South African municipalities through technology validation.
VVP Launch Grant — Cycle 6
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Funds early-stage Virginia startups through non-dilutive support before financing growth.
Waste to Energy
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds European teams building space-data services for the waste-to-energy value chain.
Waste-to-value devices - circular production of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research turning hard-to-recycle waste streams like plastics, flue gases and desalination brine into fuels, chemicals and materials, with EU contributions up to EUR 4 million per project.
Water Breakthrough Challenge 5
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Paid UK water companies between £150,000 and £10 million to trial and scale big innovations across the water sector.
Water Breakthrough Challenge 6
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Pays UK water companies between £150,000 and £10 million a year to develop bigger, bolder water-sector innovations.
Water Discovery Challenge
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Pays up to £550,000 to outside innovators bringing new technology into UK water.
WCT-BEES Grants Programme 2026-27
🇮🇳WCT · India
Pays small grants to Indian researchers and grassroots wildlife conservationists.
Weave X
🇮🇳LIVE · India
Awards up to INR 50 lakh plus mentorship to textile-sector startups and R&D teams.
Web 4.0 architectural framework and Open Internet Stack applications for virtual worlds
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays three European projects between EUR 2.8 million and EUR 8.4 million each to build an open-source Web 4.0 architecture or decentralised virtual-world applications, with only one winner allowed in the architecture track.
Wellcome Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award
🇩🇿Wellcome · United Kingdom
Funds clinical trial teams in low and middle income settings to test infectious disease interventions effectively.
Wellcome Mental Health Award: Physical Activity and Circadian Interventions
Wellcome · United Kingdom
Funds trials for United Kingdom youth evaluating physical activity and circadian approaches to anxiety and depression.
Wild Salmon Survival Factors — Knowledge Status
FHF · Norway
Supports evidence-based understanding of wild salmon survival by mapping ecological factors affecting coexistence with aquaculture.
Wildlife Protection
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for satellite-enabled wildlife-protection services.
Wireless Communication Technologies and Signal Processing – Standardisation and Follow-up/PoCs
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds 6G physical-layer and radio-access research — spectrum efficiency, massive MIMO, AI-native RAN — aimed at proof-of-concept systems and international standards contributions.
WISE SNDTWU Incubation Cohort
🇮🇳WISE SNDTWU · India
Pays up to Rs 50 lakh in seed funding to DPIIT-recognized Indian startups.
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.
Young Innovative Companies (YIC) — Phase 1
🇫🇮Business Finland · Finland
Funds high-potential young Finnish startups with promising international expansion potential and innovation readiness.
Youth Co:Lab National Innovation Challenge
🇮🇳UNDP & Citi Foundation · Global / Multinational
Awards Indian youth-led startups seed grants for solutions to sustainable textiles, circular economy or food and water systems.
Youth Startup Innovation Award 2026
Moonshot · United States
Gives young founders up to $10,000 equity-free, plus a two-year accelerator journey.
Youth-Driven Social Media Design Pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one team to co-design and test a decentralised, youth-focused social media platform with young people from at least eight EU countries.
Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Electric Power
🇬🇧DfT · United Kingdom
Build and demonstrate battery-electric vessels or novel shore power systems.
Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Energy Efficiency
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK business-led collaborations developing innovative vessel energy efficiency technologies under the ZEVI 2 clean maritime programme.