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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Advanced Innovation Challenges – Pilot
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Pays deep-tech start-ups, SMEs and research organisations a €300,000 lump sum in Stage 1, then up to €2.5 million in Stage 2, to push high-risk breakthrough innovations that lack commercial uptake toward real-world, demand-tested deployment.
Advancing atmospheric and aerial autonomy
🇬🇧NERC · United Kingdom
Proof-of-concept support for autonomous environmental observing capability.
Advancing autonomous systems and robotics for high-risk disaster response in conflict-afflicted crisis zones
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds autonomous robots and remote-sensing tools that let first responders search, assess and support disaster zones made too dangerous by conflict.
Agri Sandbox 2025 - Technology Validation Grant
🇮🇳AgHub · India
Funds Agritech pilot validation on real farms, up to Rs. 20 lakh, for post-MVP solutions.
AI for Industry Challenge
Intrinsic · United States
Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.
AI Talent Demonstration Startup Package
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds Korean startups hiring trained AI talent to solve a defined product, service, or operating problem.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1
🇪🇺EU · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 to teams building a GenAI mission generator for farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1: GenAI-Based Natural Language Mission Generator for Autonomous Robots in Agriculture
🇪🇺AI-BOOST · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition (Challenges 3 and 4)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.
AI:360 Global Startup Competition 2026
XTC · United States
Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.
Ammunition Waste Collection and Disposal Unmanned Platform
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a single contractor to build a semi-autonomous robotic platform that finds and disposes of leftover ammunition on former military training grounds and battlefields.
Apply AI: Next-Generation Agile and Intelligent Robotics Platforms for Industrial and Service Applications
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays two European projects between EUR 12 million and EUR 13 million each to build reconfigurable, safe robot platforms for industrial and service settings, using new materials and sensing.
Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing — Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one European consortium EUR 18 million to run a three-stage robotics competition, with automotive as a required use case, that re-grants up to EUR 3 million per finalist team to smaller developers who compete in it.
Adapting to and mitigating demographic trends in rural areas through evidence-based planning and innovative solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research and pilots that help rural communities plan for and adapt to demographic decline and ageing populations.
Advancing lead markets and proof-of-concept for deep tech solutions contributing to EU Missions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds proof-of-concept work on deep tech solutions relevant to the EU Missions, taking technologies up to TRL 7 while testing procurement and financing models that create lead markets for them.
AI for Transformative Social Impact
🇮🇳RAFT · India
Funds Indian nonprofits building AI-native tools for measurable social impact.
AI Startup Challenge 2026
🇺🇸CBS · United States
Awards $40K+ in prizes to grad students at Columbia, Cornell Tech, NYU or Yale pitching AI-driven startups.
AI Venture Velocity Challenge
🇺🇸Deloitte & Midjourney · United States
Awards $175,000 in cash prizes to student teams building AI-accelerated ventures.
Alumni Startup Competition
28DIGITAL · European Union
Awards a EUR 5,000 cash prize to the top EIT Digital alumni-founded startup.
America’s Startup
🇺🇸America250 · United States
Awards $25,000-$50,000 in non-dilutive grants to U.S. undergraduate student founders.
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
🇦🇺ARC · Australia
Funds three-year fellowships for early-career researchers across all disciplines except medical research with salary and project support.
ARC Discovery Projects
🇦🇺ARC · Australia
Funds Australian university teams developing long-term, university-led research through a two-stage concept pathway.