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.
Showing 49-72 of 4,982 grants
UKRI: Integration of AI/HPC with quantum
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Make quantum computers work inside normal high-performance computing workflows.
EIC Accelerator Challenge: Advanced Materials for Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Systems
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports scaling advanced materials for EU strategic autonomy in energy generation and storage.
EIC Accelerator Challenge: Alternative Concepts and Key Enabling Technologies for Fusion Power Plants
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European startups developing enabling technologies for alternative fusion power plant concepts.
EIC Accelerator Challenge: Biotech for Regenerating Agricultural Soils
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports scaling deep-tech for soil health, sustainability, and resilience of EU agriculture.
EIC Accelerator Challenge: Boosting the European Critical Raw Materials value chain
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports securing the European critical raw materials value chain across extraction, processing, and strategic substitution.
EIC Accelerator Challenge: Deep Tech for Climate Adaptation
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports developing and scaling deep-tech for adapting to key climate risks across Europe.
NSF SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups demonstrating scientific feasibility of novel science and engineering innovations.
NSF SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups extending proven early projects into substantial technology development.
NSF STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups partnering with nonprofit research institutions for early-stage feasibility studies.
NSF STTR Phase II
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech projects that continue with nonprofit research partners after successful initial feasibility work.
DoW Bone Marrow Failure, Idea Development Award
🇺🇸MRDC / CDMRP · United States
Funds an early, unproven idea about bone marrow failure disease, even without preliminary data behind it.
DoW Bone Marrow Failure, Investigator-Initiated Research Award
🇺🇸MRDC / CDMRP · United States
Funds mature bone marrow failure research, including drug-development groundwork, but not a clinical trial itself.
DoW Bone Marrow Failure, Resource Development Award
🇺🇸MRDC / CDMRP · United States
Funds building an open-access, multiomic data atlas from bone marrow failure patient samples for the whole research community.
DoW Reconstructive Transplant, Concept Award
🇺🇸MRDC / CDMRP · United States
Funds an untested, highly innovative concept in reconstructive transplantation, judged on rationale rather than preliminary data.
DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund drawdown five
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Build the UK plant that makes zero emission vehicle technology at real volume.
EIC Accelerator Challenges
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds strategic deep-tech challenge projects in materials, energy, biotechnology, and climate innovation.
FY26 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Concept Award
CDMRP · United States
Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.
International Bilateral Fund - Call 3
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Funding for UK-led space projects with international partners.
NSF SBIR Phase I (America's Seed Fund at NSF)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds early-stage US deep-tech startups to build and validate proof-of-concept technology through NSF's SBIR Phase I award.
NSF SBIR/STTR Fast-Track Pilot
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Supports United States deep-tech startups through a combined early and continuation development route.
NSF Small Business Innovation Research / Small Business Technology Transfer Phase I, Phase II, Fast-Track Programs: A Pilot Emphasis on Scientific Instrumentation
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds startups building next-generation scientific instruments — up to $2 million per company, no equity taken.
NSF Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR/STTR)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Gives U.S. small businesses non-dilutive R&D funding for high-risk, high-impact deep-tech across nearly every technical field, from a Phase I award through a larger Phase II award.
Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery (AI Datasets)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds making existing scientific datasets usable by AI — $100 million across 50 awards, and companies can apply.
Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions and crime
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research and pilot collaboration between police authorities and civil-society groups to prevent addiction-linked crime across the EU.