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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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 Discovery Challenge
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Pays up to £450,000 to outside innovators bringing new technology into UK water.
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.
WaterTech Accelerator
🇶🇦QSTP · Qatar
Provides water technology startups with in-kind acceleration, mentorship, pilots, and regional market support across West Asia.
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.
Wilkes Climate Innovation Prize
Wilkes Center · United States
Awards $250,000 in non-dilutive funding to a bold, high-potential climate solution.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity — Track A: Desalination: System-Level Innovation
XPRIZE · United States
Awards up to $40 million for a system that makes large-scale seawater desalination affordable.
XPRIZE Wildfire Track B: Autonomous Wildfire Response
XPRIZE · United States
Pays a $3.5 million Grand Prize (plus milestone and bonus prizes from a $5 million pool) to the team whose autonomous system detects and fully suppresses a high-risk wildfire fastest.
XR Prize Challenge: Fight Climate Change
AugmentedReality.org · United States
Paid a $100,000 cash prize to the best AR/VR solution built to help fight climate change.
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.
Business Energy Advice Service
🇬🇧WMCA · United Kingdom
Funds West Midlands SMEs implementing energy-efficiency measures after a business energy assessment.
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.
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.