Grant directory
Browse the public catalog of deep-tech grants from federal agencies, multinationals, foundations and corporates. For personalized eligibility, use the matcher.
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UDAY (Pre-seed Stage Program)
🇮🇳R-ABI · India
Funds Maharashtra and Goa agri-startups turning a PoC into a working prototype.
UN FAO World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards
WFF · Global / Multinational
Recognizes agrifood startups across four themes, with XTC layering a special AI award on top of the UN's global awards.
Understanding and managing medium and longer-term challenges and opportunities for agriculture stemming from shifting climatic zones and changing agroecological environments
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into how shifting climate zones are changing what farmland is good for, and how farmers should adapt.
Upscaling innovative payments to support farmers in the delivery of agri-environment-climate public goods
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that pilot and scale results-based payment schemes and monitoring tools that pay farmers for environmental services.
Valorisation of untapped forest biomass
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds research into new tools and conversion routes that turn low-value forest residues into bio-based chemicals, materials or products beyond bioenergy.
Wild Salmon Survival Factors — Knowledge Status
FHF · Norway
Supports evidence-based understanding of wild salmon survival by mapping ecological factors affecting coexistence with aquaculture.
World Agri-Foodtech Startup Challenge
🇦🇪Gulfood · United Arab Emirates
Awards a share of a $135,000 prize pool to agri-foodtech startups pitching at Gulfood.
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.
Agricultural Science and Technology Achievement Demonstration Projects
🇨🇳GDSTC · China
Funds Guangdong agricultural innovators demonstrating applied farming technologies through provincial project grants.
Grand Challenges — Micronutrient Absorption Barriers in Fortified Foods
Gates Foundation · United States
Funds global teams researching novel approaches to overcome infection, inflammation, and microbiome-related barriers that reduce the effectiveness of food fortification programs.
Training and up-skilling of research infrastructures technical staff
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one-stop-shop training programmes that build the technical, digital and career skills of staff who run Europe's research infrastructures.
Unicorn Bridge
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds high-growth Korean technology companies scaling overseas, raising global capital, and preparing for public markets.
Value creation pilots for scaling up innovative solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Paid one European consortium EUR 2 million to test at least 10 transdisciplinary pilots preparing mature research results for scale-up across Europe.
Virginia R&D Expenses + Major R&D Tax Credit
🇺🇸VA TAX · United States
Funds Virginia companies through income tax credits for qualifying innovation as a legacy incentive.
Volunteering in support of humanitarian aid operations
🇪🇺EACEA · European Union
Pays organisations to place young volunteers aged 18-35 in humanitarian aid operations in non-EU countries.
Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas 2026
🇪🇺EACEA · European Union
Pays organisations to run volunteer teams tackling preparedness, disadvantaged youth, or intergenerational fairness in high-priority areas.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Water Innovation Fund · United Kingdom
Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.
Women Startup Challenge: Tech Startup Grant
Women Who Tech · United States
Awarded $20,000 in equity-free grants to women-led tech startups after a live investor pitch.
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.
WV First Small Business Growth Program
🇺🇸WV Tax Division · United States
Backs licensed growth investors in West Virginia to structure capital support for local small businesses.
Youth Startup Innovation Award 2026
Moonshot · United States
Gives young founders up to $10,000 equity-free, plus a two-year accelerator journey.