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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EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DeepRAP — Deep Reasoning, Abstraction and Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports cognitive AI development focused on trustworthy deep reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities.
France-Taiwan Innovation Partnerships Call
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French and Taiwanese companies developing joint R&D projects through coordinated national innovation aid.
NSF SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds United States deep-tech startups demonstrating scientific feasibility of novel science and engineering innovations.
AI chip demonstrators for EU compute infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays up to ten European chip companies between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to build working AI chip prototypes and get them tested on a shared EU evaluation platform.
AI compute evaluation and deployment platform for EU infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays one consortium up to EUR 70 million to build a common EU platform for evaluating and deploying European AI chips and racks.
ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize · United States
Awards $2M in prizes across three tracks for open-source AI research advancing progress toward AGI.
BASS Kick-start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.
CIRIF Intake 1
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
Collaborate with the UK Human Functional Genomics Initiative
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Test an academic-industry functional-genomics idea and generate early data.
Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Funds breakthrough research teams tackling bold technology questions from concept through proof-of-concept under the European Innovation Council framework.
FINCOME — Diaspora Scientist Visits
🇲🇦CNRST · Morocco
Funds short visits by diaspora scientists to strengthen Moroccan research links.
GREGoRi Data Coordination and Outreach Center
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the one centre that coordinates a rare-disease genomics programme and gets its protocols, data and tools out to everybody else.
GREGoRi Innovation Projects
NIH · United States
Funds a genuinely new experimental or computational approach to finding the cause of a rare genetic disorder, where the current state of the art falls short.
GREGoRi Technology Integration Center
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds the centre that turns new molecular methods for rare-disease diagnosis into standards, best practices and a benchmarking dataset.
High performance compute resources for EPSRC communities
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding for compute hardware serving engineering and physical sciences communities.
MIT Solve Global Challenges
🇺🇸MIT · United States
Supports teams tackling global challenges by selecting and backing scalable ideas through MIT Solve challenge pathways.
ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) — Between
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports early-career faculty with naval research grants fostering next-generation discoveries.
Schmidt Science Polymaths
🇺🇸Schmidt Sciences · United States
Supports recently tenured faculty with fellowships that enable bold cross-domain research pivots and sustained interdisciplinary leadership.
UKRI: Integration of AI/HPC with quantum
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Make quantum computers work inside normal high-performance computing workflows.
BIG Idea Competition
🇺🇸BIG Idea SD · United States
Pays high school students in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota cash prizes and scholarships for their best business idea.
IPARJOG — IP Protection Support
🇭🇺NKFIH · Hungary
Backs intellectual property protection activities including patent filing and trademark registration across Hungary.
Y Combinator Accelerator Program
🇺🇸YC · United States
Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.