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.
Showing 1-24 of 3,840 programs
NIH SBIR
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds non-dilutive support for United States small businesses in biomedical and behavioral health innovation.
NSF SBIR/STTR (America's Seed Fund)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Supports United States deep-tech founders through non-dilutive development grants for innovative technology.
ARPA-E
🇺🇸ARPA-E · United States
Supports United States energy breakthroughs with high-risk funding for advanced innovation technologies.
ARPA-H
🇺🇸ARPA-H · United States
Connects DARPAforhealth for transformational biomedical and health research that traditional NIH peer through the ARPAH.
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.
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.
DARPA Defense Sciences Office
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Supports United States advanced science and systems research for strategic security technologies and materials.
DARPA SBIR/STTR
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States small businesses tackling bold national security technologies through focused defense opportunities.
Navy SBIR/STTR
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Helps innovative organizations in United States to build defense and robotics work toward measurable commercialization outcomes.
NRC Industrial Research Assistance Program
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Funds Canadian small businesses with advisory support and development financing through a national research-to-market network.
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.
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.
Development Contracts (Contratti di Sviluppo)
🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy
Funds large strategic industrial and innovation programs with soft loans, grants, and interest-rate subsidies.
Green New Deal
🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy
Funds Italian enterprises with soft loans and grants for ecological transition and circular economy projects.
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.
Project BioShield
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Funds development and procurement readiness of medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.
Smart & Start Italia
🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy
Funds innovative startups across Italy with zero-interest financing and phased support for scaling new products.
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.
DARPA Microsystems Technology Office
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds advanced United States electronics, photonics, quantum, and sensing work for computing, communications, and security.
DoD SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Funds United States defense teams with DoD support for maturing prototypes into deployable systems.
Innovate UK Fast Start: Innovation
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Supports early-stage United Kingdom businesses with quick innovation grants for rapid proof work.
BRAIN Initiative Research Grants
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds brain and neurotechnology research projects through cross-institute grant support.
EIC Accelerator
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Offers European deep-tech innovators grants and growth capital pathways toward global market leadership.
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.