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Funding programs

Recurring funding programs behind individual grant calls — grants, loans, tax credits, and equity instruments from federal agencies, foundations, and corporates. Filter by country, instrument, or submission cadence.

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National Institutes of Health logo
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NIH SBIR

🇺🇸NIH · United States

Funds non-dilutive support for United States small businesses in biomedical and behavioral health innovation.

5 grants
National Science Foundation logo
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NSF SBIR/STTR (America's Seed Fund)

🇺🇸NSF · United States

Supports United States deep-tech founders through non-dilutive development grants for innovative technology.

$150K – $1.6M5 grants
Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy logo
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ARPA-E

🇺🇸ARPA-E · United States

Supports United States energy breakthroughs with high-risk funding for advanced innovation technologies.

$250K – $20M4 grants
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health logo
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ARPA-H

🇺🇸ARPA-H · United States

Connects DARPAforhealth for transformational biomedical and health research that traditional NIH peer through the ARPAH.

$150K – $80M4 grants
Department of the Air Force logo
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Air Force SBIR/STTR

🇺🇸Air Force · United States

Funds United States Air Force small business innovation through topic based calls and direct pathways for mission solutions.

$75K – $2.2M2 grants
Department of the Army logo
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Army SBIR/STTR

🇺🇸Army · United States

Offers research teams and universities in United States to connect defense and robotics teams to commercialization pathways and real buyers.

Up to $2.2M2 grants
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency logo
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DARPA Defense Sciences Office

🇺🇸DARPA · United States

Supports United States advanced science and systems research for strategic security technologies and materials.

$250K – $30M2 grants
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency logo
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DARPA SBIR/STTR

🇺🇸DARPA · United States

Funds United States small businesses tackling bold national security technologies through focused defense opportunities.

Up to $2.2M2 grants
Department of the Navy logo
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Navy SBIR/STTR

🇺🇸Navy · United States

Helps innovative organizations in United States to build defense and robotics work toward measurable commercialization outcomes.

Up to $2.2M2 grants
National Research Council Canada logo
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NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program

🇨🇦NRC · Canada

Funds Canadian small businesses with advisory support and development financing through a national research-to-market network.

CAD 10K – CAD 1M2 grants
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
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Critical and Emerging Technologies (Tecnologie Critiche ed Emergenti, STEP)

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Funds collaborative industrial research in digital, clean energy and biotech across Italy's less-developed regions.

€1M – €20M1 grant
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency logo
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DARPA Biological Technologies Office

🇺🇸DARPA · United States

Supports biology-inspired defense innovation in the United States by funding projects that turn biology into mission capability.

$1M – $30M1 grant
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
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Development Contracts (Contratti di Sviluppo)

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Funds large strategic industrial and innovation programs with soft loans, grants, and interest-rate subsidies.

1 grant
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
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Green New Deal

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Funds Italian enterprises with soft loans and grants for ecological transition and circular economy projects.

€3M – €40M1 grant
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) logo
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NEDO Green Innovation Fund (GI Fund)

🇯🇵NEDO · Japan

Funds Japanese green technology demonstrations through NEDO Green Innovation Fund for industry transformation toward a lower-carbon economy.

¥10B – ¥250B1 grant
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority logo
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Project BioShield

🇺🇸BARDA · United States

Funds development and procurement readiness of medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.

$10M – $500M1 grant
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
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Smart & Start Italia

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Funds innovative startups across Italy with zero-interest financing and phased support for scaling new products.

€100K – €1.5M1 grant
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
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Tax Credit for R&D, Technological Innovation, Design and Aesthetic Conception (Credito d'imposta R&S, innovazione tecnologica, design e ideazione estetica)

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Funds Italian enterprises for research, technological innovation, design and aesthetic creativity through annual tax credits.

Up to €5M1 grant
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency logo
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DARPA Microsystems Technology Office

🇺🇸DARPA · United States

Funds advanced United States electronics, photonics, quantum, and sensing work for computing, communications, and security.

$2M – $50M
U.S. Department of Defense logo
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DoD SBIR Phase II

🇺🇸DoD · United States

Funds United States defense teams with DoD support for maturing prototypes into deployable systems.

$500K – $2M
Innovate UK logo
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Innovate UK Fast Start: Innovation

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Supports early-stage United Kingdom businesses with quick innovation grants for rapid proof work.

£31K – £125K
NIH BRAIN Initiative logo
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BRAIN Initiative Research Grants

🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States

Funds brain and neurotechnology research projects through cross-institute grant support.

11 grants
European Innovation Council logo
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EIC Accelerator

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Offers European deep-tech innovators grants and growth capital pathways toward global market leadership.

Up to €2.5M7 grants
FINEP — Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos logo
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FINEP Economic Subsidy (Subvenção Econômica; Mais Inovação Brasil)

🇧🇷FINEP · Brazil

Supports Non reimbursable economic subsidy grants for Brazilian companies doing high risk innovation development aligned to national industrial priorities.

6 grants