Non-cash awards
Explore non-cash awards and in-kind support. This directory lists funding that arrives as compute credits, lab and facility access, testing time, mentoring, vouchers and services rather than money, from public programs, research infrastructures and corporate partners.
Showing 49-72 of 141 grants
Yale Ventures FORGE
🇺🇸Yale Ventures · United States
Supports Yale-affiliated faculty and students through a startup studio that builds commercial spinouts from university research.
Fly.io Startup Credits
Fly.io Inc. · United States
Offers Fly.io startup credits for founders deploying distributed applications rapidly.
Hugging Face for Startups
HF · United States
Offers Hugging Face startup credits for teams building model-based products and experimentation.
MIT.nano Industry Consortium / Foundry Access
MIT.nano · United States
Provides Massachusetts startup teams access to advanced prototyping and fabrication through MIT.nano collaboration.
Modal Labs Startup Credits
Modal Labs · United States
Offers Modal Labs startup credits for teams needing high-performance compute.
NavalX Tech Bridges
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Connects Navy-focused innovators to regional hubs, workshops, and service users through structured networking and commercialization pathways.
New Mexico Tech Research Collaborative SBIR Match (NMSBA)
🇺🇸NM EDD · United States
Funds New Mexico teams by matching technology research development with support for product scaling.
Render for Startups
🇺🇸Render · United States
Offers Render startup credits to support founders through early hosting and scale.
Stripe Atlas (Formation + Credits Pack)
Stripe · United States
Offers Stripe support from company setup to early operational credits during launch.
Together AI Research Credits Program
Together AI · United States
Provides selective compute credits for student researchers pursuing independent AI work, with publication acknowledgment expected.
INCLUDE Project: Omics Phenotypes Related to Down Syndrome
NIH · United States
Funds access to genomic and multi-omics processing of Down syndrome biospecimens through NIH's INCLUDE Project, with no direct cash award.
Pre-announcement: Experimental medicine to define mechanisms of gambling disorder
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Funding for human experimental medicine research on gambling disorder mechanisms.
Access EuroHPC supercomputers for AI development (AI Factories)
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Apply for EuroHPC compute time to train and develop large AI models.
Access EuroHPC supercomputers for research computing
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Apply for time on Europe's most powerful supercomputers. No cash — compute.
AI for Science Program
Anthropic · United States
Offers support for AI-enabled science initiatives in biotech and agriculture.
Athenian Project
🇺🇸Cloudflare · United States
Provides United States election websites with enterprise-grade DDoS defense, CDN protection, and performance tools.
AWS Activate Founders Package
AWS · United States
Offers early-stage founders startup credits for compute on AWS so teams can prototype and launch without immediate spend.
AWS Activate Portfolio Package
AWS · United States
Offers provider-backed startups additional AWS startup credits for advanced architecture, deployment, and customer growth through the portfolio program.
Barclays Eagle Labs x Plexal Scaleup Programme
🇬🇧Plexal · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom technology scale-up through a hybrid programme for growth firms with either raised capital or active revenue.
BBSRC new investigator award: applicant-led mode
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
Support for new investigator-led biotechnology and biological research.
BBSRC standard research grant: applicant-led mode
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
Funding for investigator-led biotechnology and biological research.
Berkeley SkyDeck Pad-13 Incubator
🇺🇸SkyDeck · United States
Offers early-stage incubation with desk space, workshops, and mentorship for startups before entering a full accelerator program.
BIRD Foundation — Michigan Channel (via MIBA)
🇺🇸MIBA · United States
Provides Michigan-based access and matchmaking to United States–Israel joint projects applying for BIRD conditional grants.
Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) High Throughput Sequencing and Genotyping Resource Access
NIH · United States
Funds access to NIH's genotyping and sequencing lab, not a cash award, for research that needs large-scale genetic data.