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: Advanced Materials for Miniaturised Energy Harvesting Systems
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports developing advanced materials for miniaturised energy harvesters to power IoT and sensor networks autonomously.
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.
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.
BASS Kick-start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.
Building Resilient Communities Grant
🇺🇸WBC · United States
Backs Wyoming municipalities and tribal governments with infrastructure support for publicly owned water, transportation, and airport projects.
Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
EIT Urban Mobility Financial Support to Startups
🇪🇺EIT Urban Mobility · European Union
Funds startups and industry teams building mobility, transport, and climate technologies through urban innovation support.
Horizon Border Security: Surveillance & Drone Detection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M projects that build border detection and surveillance tech, run jointly with national Border and Coast Guard authorities.
Horizon Civil Security: Critical Communications System
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €3M project building rugged, post-quantum-secure comms devices for first responders that keep working without cellular coverage.
Horizon Disaster Response: Search & Rescue Tech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €4M projects that build and field-test search-and-rescue tech — drones, robotics, sensors — for wildfires, earthquakes and other hazardous disasters.
National Space Innovation Programme - Call 3
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
Co-funded R&D for UK space technologies, applications and services
NSF SBIR/STTR Fast-Track Pilot
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Supports United States deep-tech startups through a combined early and continuation development route.
Special Program Announcement for Office of Naval Research Research Opportunity: FY27 Communications and Networking Applied Research
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Funds communications and networking research that links distributed Navy and Marine Corps units into one tactical grid.
1707 Order-Based R&D Support
🇹🇷TÜBİTAK · Türkiye
Co-funds R&D projects between a Turkish customer company and an SME supplier, covering 40% of costs.
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.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Technology Fund
🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States
Funds eligible Princeton researchers inventing or applying new research technology through one- or two-year grants.
Grant for Recruiting International Visiting Researchers
🇸🇪VR · Sweden
Funds Swedish higher education institutions to host international researchers and strengthen global collaboration.
IPARJOG — IP Protection Support
🇭🇺NKFIH · Hungary
Backs intellectual property protection activities including patent filing and trademark registration across Hungary.
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.
SME Collectives Sustainable Travel Behaviour (COVER)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch SME representative bodies to make their members' employee commuting greener.
Y Combinator Accelerator Program
🇺🇸YC · United States
Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.