Accelerators, grants & funding
Startup accelerators, grants & funding programs
The programs you apply to and join for capital: accelerators, incubators, and fellowships, plus grants, prizes, and government funding. A different thing from the product perks on the main board, gathered here in one place.
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An accelerator, grant, or funding program is something you APPLY to and get selected for: capital, mentorship, or non-dilutive money, gated on acceptance. That is different from a startup PERK (credits, a free plan, a discount) you simply claim on a product you use. StartupPerks keeps the two apart: product perks are on the main board, the apply-to programs are here.
These are worth applying to when you want capital and a network, not just a product discount. Some run fixed cohorts and take a small equity stake; others award non-dilutive grants or prizes you compete for. Compare what each offers and how to apply below, grouped by type.
Selective cohort programs you apply to and join for investment, mentorship, and network, usually in exchange for equity.
Accelerators, incubators & fellowships (507, showing 150)
Each links out to its own program page to apply.
| Program | What it offers | Stage | Apply |
|---|---|---|---|
01Booster Accelerator Programs 01Booster | Japanese corporate/regional accelerator running multiple open-innovation programs that match startups with corporates and local governments. | seed, series-a | Apply |
01Booster Accelerator Programs 01Booster | Japanese accelerator running regional, corporate, and women-founder acceleration programs. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Alpha Startups Pre-Accelerator 1337 Ventures | Malaysia's leading early-stage VC and accelerator running the quarterly Alpha Startups pre-accelerator to help founders validate markets and get investment-ready, plus follow-on investment. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
1991 Equity-Free Accelerator 1991 Accelerator | Kyiv, Ukraine-based accelerator (since 2016) running equity-free investment-readiness programs for early-stage founders, with a seed fund for follow-on investment. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Simya International Accelerator Fund 212 | Turkey/MENA-focused investor running the Simya international accelerator for B2B tech. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
212Founders Incubation & Acceleration (CDG Invest) 212Founders | CDG Invest's free Casablanca incubator/accelerator supporting high-potential Moroccan/African founders with 6-month incubation and seed/Series A financing up to EUR 700k, and a 12-month acceleration with funding up to EUR 1M. | seed, series-a | Apply |
22 On Sloane (Incubation / Accelerator / Scale-Up) 22 On Sloane | Africa's largest startup campus in Johannesburg (and Cape Town), offering a turnkey path from idea to commercialization, funding and market access. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Founder Cohorts / Accelerator 2Gether-International | Leading global accelerator for founders with disabilities, running tech and AI cohorts plus a pre-accelerator (Venture Labs) and pitch competitions with seed funding. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Startup Accelerator for Disabled Founders 2Gether-International | Leading startup accelerator specifically for founders with disabilities. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
36INC Incubation & Acceleration 36INC (Chhattisgarh) | Chhattisgarh's state incubator (Raipur) offering incubation, prototyping, mentorship and funding support to startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
776 Fellowship 776 Foundation | Alexis Ohanian's 776 Foundation funds young people to work on climate solutions instead of school. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
8200 EISP Startup Accelerator 8200 EISP | Israel's first startup accelerator, a non-equity program open to all Israeli early-stage startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
a-IDEA AgriTech Incubation (AGRI UDAAN, SIDBI SEED) a-IDEA (ICAR-NAARM) | ICAR-NAARM's agri-innovation incubator (Hyderabad) offering agritech/foodtech startups grants, seed funding and the AGRI UDAAN accelerator. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
a16z Speedrun a16z Speedrun | Andreessen Horowitz's accelerator for founders building at the frontier: up to $1M investment plus $10M+ in credits, expert operators, and a demo day. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
A6K Incubation & Acceleration A6K | Charleroi (Wallonia) engineering-innovation hub with incubation/acceleration programs, a 5G lab, HPC and a driving simulator, plus industrial partners. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
100+ Accelerator AB InBev (100+ Accelerator) | The 100+ Accelerator (AB InBev with Coca-Cola, Colgate, Danone, Mondelez, Unilever) gives startups up to $100K for pilots. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
ABC Accelerator ABC Accelerator | Ljubljana-based accelerator bridging startups and corporates, offering strategy, mentoring and investment-readiness with regional VC access. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Accelerating Bangladesh Startup Accelerator Accelerating Bangladesh | A government-backed accelerator (part of the World Bank-supported DEIED project) offering fully sponsored acceleration tracks for early-stage startups, women-led digital enterprises and growth-stage businesses in Bangladesh. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
AC Accelerator Programs Accelerator Centre | Waterloo-based accelerator (self-described as Canada's #1 private business accelerator) running multiple tracks including AC:Incubate, AC:RevLab, AC:Health and an Aerospace Accelerator. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Activate Fellowship (Cyclotron Road) Activate | A two-year, equity-free fellowship that helps hard-science researchers turn breakthroughs into deep-tech companies. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
ActnerLab Deep Tech Accelerator ActnerLab | Seoul deep-tech accelerator with seed funding, TIPS access, and a science-park campus. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Acumen Fellowship Acumen Academy | Acumen's cohort-based leadership fellowships for social entrepreneurs solving poverty, run regionally worldwide (e.g., East Africa), with 1,800+ alumni across 193 countries. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Aerospace Xelerated Accelerator Aerospace Xelerated | Corporate-backed aerospace accelerator giving startups industry access, investment and mentorship. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
ACRA Accelerator Africa Carbon Removal Accelerator (ACRA) | Accelerator for Sub-Saharan African carbon-dioxide-removal startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
AgLaunch Accelerator AgLaunch | A farmer-centric agtech accelerator in the Mid-South that pairs startups with a national farmer innovation network. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Agoranov Incubator Agoranov | Paris science & technology incubator that has supported 400+ startups (Doctolib, Dataiku, Criteo). | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
AHG Lab Venture Studio (Builder / Founders Launchpad) AHG Lab | Manila-based venture studio building and backing Southeast Asia startups. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
AI House Incubator (formerly AI2 Incubator) AI House | A Seattle startup ecosystem (community, incubator and pre-seed capital) for applied-AI founders, spun out of the Allen Institute for AI's incubator. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
AI NATION Accelerator AI Nation | Equity-free German accelerator for AI startups with founder scholarships and resource grants. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
AIC-RAISE Incubation & Acceleration AIC-RAISE | An Atal Incubation Centre in Coimbatore billed as India's first UN SDG startup incubator, supporting mission-driven tech founders. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
AirMiners Launchpad AirMiners | Free 5-week accelerator (with XPRIZE and Creative Destruction Lab) for early-stage carbon-dioxide-removal teams and solo founders, covering carbon markets, unit economics, and fundraising. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Alabama Launchpad Startup Competition Alabama Launchpad (EDPA) | Non-dilutive startup competition awarding up to $100,000 to Alabama startups across concept and seed stages. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Alchemist Accelerator Alchemist Accelerator | Six-month Silicon Valley accelerator for enterprise/B2B and AI-SaaS/deeptech startups: ~$30K investment, $450K+ partner credits, and free SF co-working, typically for ~5% equity. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Aleap Health Incubator Aleap | Oslo-based, the Nordics' largest health startup incubator, at Oslo Science Park, with incubation plus Aleap Ventures investment. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Algorand Startup Accelerator Algorand Foundation | Accelerator for established startups building on Algorand: expert guidance on compliance, accounting, marketing, and technical support, plus up to $50,000 in initial funding. | seed, series-a | Apply |
AlleyCorp Venture Studio AlleyCorp | Kevin Ryan's New York venture studio that incubates and co-founds transformative companies and invests in them. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Alliance (alliance.xyz) Accelerator Alliance | Selective crypto and fintech accelerator investing in web3-native and Web2.5 startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Almacube Incubation & Acceleration (University of Bologna) Almacube | Certified incubator of the University of Bologna and Confindustria Emilia Area Centro. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Altitude Lab Residency & Fund Altitude Lab | Life-science incubator founded by Recursion and University of Utah. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Amrita TBI Incubation & Accelerator Amrita TBI | A government-supported technology business incubator at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, funding startups up to Rs 1 crore across multiple schemes. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CSX (Crypto Startup Accelerator) Andreessen Horowitz (a16z crypto) | a16z crypto's accelerator connecting web3 founders with capital, expert mentorship, and a cohort of leading teams across infrastructure, DeFi, gaming, and AI. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Angel Ventures investment & incubator Angel Ventures | One of Mexico's most active VC firms (since 2008), leading seed and Series A rounds across Latin America. | seed, series-a | Apply |
ANJE Incubation Network (LINC) ANJE - Associação Nacional de Jovens Empresários | Portugal's national young-entrepreneurs association running an incubation network. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Antropia ESSEC Accelerator Antropia ESSEC | ESSEC Business School's social and environmental-impact accelerator (free, partner-funded) with StartUp, ScaleUp and SizeUp tracks. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Anzisha Prize (Fellowship, Idea, Build) Anzisha Prize | Program backing Africa's youngest entrepreneurs with non-dilutive funding and coaching. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
AppWorks Accelerator AppWorks | Taiwan's largest accelerator (founded 2009), running two equity-free, cost-free batches a year for founders across Greater Southeast Asia and Taiwan, with optional follow-on investment from AppWorks Funds. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
APX Accelerator / Pre-seed Investment APX | Berlin earliest-stage investor (Axel Springer + Porsche JV) backing pre-seed digital founder teams with a tailored 100-day program. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
ARC (Sheba) Accelerator ARC Innovation | Sheba Medical Center's global health-innovation accelerator. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Ashoka Fellowship Ashoka | Pioneer of social entrepreneurship offering a nomination-based fellowship that gives leading social entrepreneurs a multi-year living stipend and lifetime support across a global network. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Astana Hub acceleration and incubation programs Astana Hub | Kazakhstan's international tech park runs free acceleration and incubation cohorts (Almaty Hub Incubation, AI'preneurs, Astana Innovations Accelerator, Central Eurasia Market Entry) alongside tax-exempt IT-park residency for tech startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Atomic Venture Studio Atomic | A San Francisco venture studio that co-founds companies with founders, supplying ideas, capital and a full operating team. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
aws First Incubator Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws) | Austrian federal promotional bank's early-stage incubator with stipends and grants. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Axilor Accelerator Axilor Ventures | Early-stage seed fund and 100-day accelerator founded by Infosys co-founders, now including upfront funding, across SaaS, consumer, healthtech, AI, fintech and IoT. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Bahrain FinTech Bay Incubation and Acceleration Bahrain FinTech Bay | Bahrain's leading fintech hub running incubation, residency and acceleration programs across the GCC/MENA. | seed, series-a, any | Apply |
Bcombinator Accelerator Bcombinator | Barcelona startup accelerator, coworking, and venture-capital hub near the beach. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Berkeley SkyDeck Accelerator Berkeley SkyDeck | UC Berkeley's flagship accelerator: a $200K investment per startup, 900+ advisors and mentors, and the Berkeley Acceleration Method, selecting ~20 startups every six months. | pre-seed, seed | Applications closed August 21, 2026 |
Berlin Startup School Accelerator Berlin Startup School | Equity-free 6-month Berlin accelerator with a monthly founder stipend and coworking. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
BGV Tech for Good Accelerator Bethnal Green Ventures | London-based early-stage 'tech for good' VC and accelerator backing founders using technology to tackle climate, inequality and health challenges, investing for equity. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Beyond Beta accelerator + free pre-accelerator Beyond Beta | Danish accelerator (Danish Tech Startup) running recurring cohorts plus a free online pre-accelerator. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BRAVE Accelerator Beyond Next Ventures | Japan deep-tech and university-startup accelerator providing seed investment and hands-on incubation to research-driven founders. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Bhau Institute Incubation Bhau Institute | The innovation and incubation institute at COEP (College of Engineering Pune), supporting students and early founders through structured programs. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Big Idea Ventures Accelerator Big Idea Ventures | A leading foodtech/alt-protein accelerator and fund investing in sustainable food and agriculture startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Global Food Innovation Fund Accelerator (Singapore) Big Idea Ventures | Food-tech and alternative-protein accelerator running cohorts twice a year (January and July) in Singapore, New York and Paris, investing $200,000 per startup with follow-on up to $3.5M. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BioInnovate Fellowship Programme BioInnovate Ireland | Irish medtech/health-technology innovation fellowship modelled on Stanford Biodesign. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Venture Lab & Bio Studio BioInnovation Institute (BII) | Copenhagen life-science incubator (backed by Novo Nordisk Foundation) providing large non-dilutive grants plus lab space. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
BioTools Innovator Accelerator BioTools Innovator | Nonprofit accelerator dedicated to life-science tools and molecular-diagnostics startups, running a competitive program with mentorship, industry access and cash prizes. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BIRD Pre-incubation / Incubation / Acceleration BIRD Incubator | Croatia's first AI-focused startup incubator (founded by Solvership, 2021). | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BizMaker Incubator / Accelerator BizMaker | Regional business incubator in Västernorrland, Sweden (Sundsvall, Härnösand, Örnsköldsvik) offering free business development coaching and sector accelerators. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BLOCK71 Singapore Incubation BLOCK71 | NUS Enterprise-powered tech ecosystem builder and global connector incubating pre-seed to Series A startups in AI, IoT, fintech, hardware and software across three Singapore centres. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
BLOCK71 Incubation & Programs BLOCK71 (NUS Enterprise) | NUS Enterprise's global startup ecosystem builder, incubating startups since 2011 (1,600+ to date) with stage-tailored programs, verified mentors and a network across Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, China, Japan and the US. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Blossom Accelerator Programs Blossom Accelerator | Riyadh-based accelerator and investment catalyst running programs, bootcamps and hackathons that give startups mentorship, tools, soft-landing/business-setup into Saudi Arabia, and connections to investors, corporates and government. | idea, pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
BlueChem Incubator BlueChem | Belgium's first sustainable-chemistry incubator (Antwerp, Blue Gate) with labs, a Kickstart Fund grant and access to the chemical cluster. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Bluepoint Accelerator Bluepoint Partners | Korean accelerator and early-stage investor specialising in tech and deep-tech startups, providing seed investment and hands-on company-building support (KOSDAQ-listed accelerator). | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BlueTech Accelerator BlueTech Accelerator | Portugal's blue-economy acceleration program led by Forum Oceano and orchestrated by beta-i, supporting startups and SMEs across aquaculture, blue biotech, renewable energy, and ocean observation, with regional editions including the Azores and Madeira. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CUREator national biotech incubator (incl. CUREator+) Brandon BioCatalyst | Australian national biotechnology incubator giving grants and hands-on support to pre-clinical and clinical medical innovators. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Bridge for Billions Incubation Programs Bridge for Billions | Madrid-founded online incubation platform powering entrepreneurship programs worldwide. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Brigade REAP Accelerator Brigade REAP | A built-environment (proptech/construction-tech/urban-tech) accelerator in Bangalore, backed by Brigade Group. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Brinc Accelerator Programs Brinc | Hong Kong-headquartered venture accelerator running innovation programs across sectors (Web3, AI, cellular agriculture, hardware/IoT) with global roadshows and investor access; operates in Hong Kong and many other markets. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BrokerTech Ventures Accelerator BrokerTech Ventures | Insurtech accelerator giving broker-focused startups seed funding and direct broker/carrier access. | seed | Apply |
Build Up Labs Startup Incubator Build Up Labs | Lisbon startup incubator and venture studio. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
build! Incubation / AplusB South-West build! Gründungszentrum | Carinthia's startup incubation center. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Buildit Accelerator Buildit | Hardware and IoT-focused accelerator based in Riga, Latvia, investing in pre-seed hardware startups with follow-on capacity into seed rounds. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Level Up Accelerator & Retail Pitch Built Oregon | Oregon nonprofit accelerating consumer-product startups with retail training and pitch access. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BIH Accelerator Bulgaria Innovation Hub | Foundation supporting Bulgarian and CEE/SEE startups with acceleration. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
C-CAMP Bio-Incubation & Accelerators C-CAMP (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms) | Bengaluru life-sciences incubator with seed funding, a DST NIDHI accelerator and bio-incubation facilities for biotech startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CAFE Fintech Accelerator CAFE (Center for Accelerating Financial Equity) | CAFE runs an equity-free fintech accelerator for startups improving financial health for low-to-moderate-income people. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Camelback Ventures Fellowship Camelback Ventures | Fellowship investing in education and social-impact entrepreneurs of color with pre-seed capital and coaching. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Therapeutic Accelerator & Seed Fund Cancer Research Horizons | Cancer Research UK's innovation arm for oncology founders. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CancerX Accelerator CancerX | Public-private oncology digital-health accelerator. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Capital Innovators Accelerator Capital Innovators | Seed funding, mentorship, and connections through a high-touch St. Louis accelerator that has scaled 180+ startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V) Accelerator Carbon to Value Initiative | Carbontech accelerator run by Urban Future Lab (NYU), Greentown Labs and Fraunhofer USA. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Venture Accelerator Carbon13 | Climate-tech venture builder that funds and builds decarbonisation startups from founding teams. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
LaunchIT GreenTech Accelerator & Innovation Lab Caribbean Climate Innovation Center (CCIC) | Regional Caribbean cleantech hub offering a 6-month proof-of-concept accelerator (LaunchIT GreenTech), bootcamps (ClimateLaunchpad), and an incubator (Innovation Lab) for climate/clean-technology startups across the Caribbean. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Catalyst Space & Defense Accelerator Catalyst Accelerator | A Colorado Springs accelerator connecting dual-use space and defense startups with US DoD and national-security mission partners. | seed, series-a | Apply |
CCRM Incubation Program CCRM | Regenerative medicine / cell & gene therapy commercialization center. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Character Labs accelerator Character (Character Capital) | Venture fund by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky running a product-market-fit accelerator with investment and structured sprints. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Chrysalis (PUCV) incubation Chrysalis | Business incubator of PUCV in Valparaíso, Chile, offering technical and financial support to entrepreneurs. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Cicada Deep Tech Incubator Cicada Innovations | Australia's home for deep tech (est. 2000, founded by ANU/UNSW/USYD/UTS) providing specialised labs, mentoring and full-lifecycle commercialisation support across health, food, climate and advanced materials. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
CIE Accelerator Programs (Avishkar, Ojas, Mediatech, Mobility) CIE @ IIIT Hyderabad | IIIT Hyderabad's deep-tech incubator runs sector accelerators (AI/deeptech, medtech, mediatech, mobility) with grants and investment. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Circular Economy Accelerator Circular Valley | Equity-free two-month accelerator in Wuppertal, Germany for circular-economy startups (recycling, product passports, waste design), covering 80% of participation costs for up to two founders. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Cisco LaunchPad Accelerator Cisco LaunchPad | Cisco's B2B deep-tech corporate accelerator in India, giving startups a go-to-market engine with Cisco mentors, grants and IT support. | seed, series-a | Apply |
CITES deeptech incubation & investment CITES | Grupo Sancor Seguros deeptech incubator/investor in Sunchales, Argentina, funding science-based startups from US$25k to US$3.5M. | idea, pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Cleantech Open Accelerator Cleantech Open | A large nonprofit cleantech accelerator that trains early-stage clean-technology entrepreneurs across US regions. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
The Climate Accelerator (tCA) Climate Collective Foundation | Multi-stage climate accelerator platform for the Global South, starting in South Asia and the Gulf. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CcHub Accelerator & EdTech Fellowship Co-creation Hub (CcHub) | Pan-African innovation ecosystem enabler running incubation, growth capital and the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, which has provided early-stage African education startups equity-free funding of up to $100k. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
LIFT Labs Accelerator Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs | Comcast NBCUniversal's accelerator connecting startups with decision-makers across its global technology and media business to launch enterprise partnerships. | seed, series-a, any | Apply |
Corallia Innohub Incubation & Clusters Corallia | Greece's cluster-development and innovation organization, operating Innohub incubators. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Corda Incubator Corda Campus | Hasselt (Limburg) business campus running Corda Incubator for early-stage startups, with advisory and sector hubs in drones, health and green energy. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
eLab Student Business Accelerator Cornell University | Cornell's flagship for-credit student accelerator that launches ~20 real businesses each year. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
eLab Student Accelerator Cornell University (Center for Regional Economic Advancement) | Cornell's credit-bearing student startup accelerator launching ~12 real businesses a year, with funding for customer discovery and initial investment. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Creation Africa Ghana Incubation Program Creation Africa Ghana | French-government-backed incubation program in Ghana equipping cultural and creative entrepreneurs; 30 participants join an intensive bootcamp and 10 finalists receive grants of up to EUR 30,000 each. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
CDL Accelerator Program Creative Destruction Lab | Canadian non-profit science- and tech-based seed-stage accelerator (founded at University of Toronto's Rotman School) running a 9-month objectives-based mentorship program with specialized streams (AI, climate, health, quantum). No fee, no equity. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Fintech Lab / GovTech Accelerator / Climate Response Accelerator Creative HQ | Wellington-based accelerator operator (alumni include Sharesies, Hnry and Tapi) running fintech, govtech and climate accelerators. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CTIC Dakar Incubation & Acceleration CTIC Dakar | West Africa's first ICT incubator (Dakar, founded 2011 with World Bank/IFC support), offering pre-incubation (BuntuTeki), acceleration and a one-year incubation program with financing access and market connections. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Cubo Itaú residency Cubo Itaú | Latin America's largest innovation hub (Itaú + Redpoint eventures) offering workspace, 70+ corporate partners and investor access to validated startups. | seed, series-a | Apply |
CyberLab Accelerator CyberLab | Karlsruhe IT/high-tech accelerator running since 2013. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Creative Micro Fund (CCMF) & Incubation Programme Cyberport | Hong Kong government-owned digital-tech hub providing seed grants and incubation financial support to startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Cyberport Incubation Programme Cyberport | Hong Kong government-backed digital-tech incubator providing up to HK$500,000 in financial assistance plus rental subsidy over a 24-month programme. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Applications paused |
Technology Incubation CzechInvest | The Czech national investment/business development agency incubates innovative tech startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
D.CAMP Accelerator (Banks Foundation for Young Entrepreneurs) D.CAMP | Korean non-profit accelerator founded in 2012 by 19 financial institutions, offering equity investment, incubation space in Gangnam and global-expansion programs; refocused on pre-Series A / Series A via 'dcamp 2.0'. | seed, series-a | Apply |
DayOne Accelerator DayOne | Basel-area healthtech accelerator with non-dilutive, no-equity support. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Demium Incubation Demium | Valencia-founded talent-first startup builder that assembles teams from scratch and invests pre-seed via Think Bigger Capital. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Deshpande Startups Incubation & Acceleration Deshpande Startups | A large two-state (Karnataka and Telangana) sector-agnostic incubator in Hubballi focused on non-metro India, on a 6-acre campus. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Digital Hub Bonn Accelerator Programs (HUB GRADE, LEVEL HUB, SHE ROES) Digital Hub Bonn | Bonn innovation center with multiple accelerator tracks. | idea, pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
DigitalHealth.London Accelerator DigitalHealth.London | London programme helping digital health companies speed up adoption within the NHS and social care, providing bespoke advice, mentoring, education and NHS navigation. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Founder Programs (START, BIG, BREAKTHROUGH, Do You Fellowship) digitalundivided | US nonprofit running a ladder of programs (pre-accelerator, incubator, coaching, scaling fellowship) for Black and Latina women and other underrepresented founders. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
DivInc Accelerator DivInc | An Austin-based nonprofit running equity-free accelerator programs for underrepresented founders across multiple verticals. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
DMZ Incubator DMZ (Toronto Metropolitan University) | Toronto Metropolitan University's DMZ: 18-month startup incubator with mentorship and investor access. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
DRK Fellowship Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | A venture-philanthropy foundation giving unrestricted grants and hands-on support to early-stage social enterprises. | seed | Apply |
Drukka Startup Program Drukka Startup Studio | Hungarian startup studio pairing founders with an IT partner and investors. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Duality Quantum Accelerator Duality Quantum Accelerator | The first US accelerator dedicated to early-stage quantum startups, led by University of Chicago's Polsky Center and the Chicago Quantum Exchange, offering funding, lab space and 12 months of support. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
E4Impact Accelerator E4Impact | Foundation (est. 2010 by ALTIS/Universita Cattolica) running impact-business accelerators and entrepreneurship programs across 21 African countries including Kenya, Uganda and Senegal, with mentoring and investor connections. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Echoing Green Fellowship Echoing Green | A long-running fellowship funding emerging social entrepreneurs with seed capital and strategic support. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
EduSpaze Accelerator EduSpaze | Singapore's first edtech accelerator (supported by Enterprise Singapore): a customised 3-month program offering up to S$500K seed funding for a small equity stake to early-stage edtech startups serving Singapore and Southeast Asia. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
EIT Food Startup Programs (Seedbed, FAN Accelerator, EWA) EIT Food | EU agrifood innovation community accelerating startups with equity-free support and grants. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator & Innovation Calls EIT Urban Mobility | EU innovation community funding and accelerating sustainable urban-mobility startups. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Elevator Enterprise & Accelerator Programmes Elevator | Scotland's leading social enterprise for business support (Aberdeen, Dundee, Moray), delivering startup and accelerator programmes plus enterprise support across urban and rural Scotland. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
EBF Incubation & Acceleration Emerging Business Factory | Marrakech-based digital-innovation hub offering customised incubation and acceleration programs, strategic mentorship, coworking and digital-transformation expertise to Moroccan startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Grant & Incubation Program Encubator | Equity-free climate-tech grant and PoliHub incubation program. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Climate Solutions Accelerator (and climate-tech program suite) EnergyLab | Australia's largest climate-tech startup accelerator, running around ten stage-based programs and fellowships for climate and energy founders. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
ERA (Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator) Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator | NYC's leading tech accelerator, investing in early-stage startups across industries with a large mentor network. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
EPFL Startup Launchpad EPFL | EPFL's startup support engine (Lausanne, Switzerland), including Innogrant and Ignition Grant funding. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Capital Readiness Accelerator & Funding Epicenter | Six-week capital-readiness accelerator plus seed/pre-seed funding and student startup grants for the Memphis region. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Equinor & Techstars Energy Accelerator Equinor | A 13-week, mentorship-driven energy accelerator run by Equinor with Techstars in Oslo, selecting ~10 global startups a year across oil & gas, renewables and digitalization. | seed, series-a | Apply |
ESA Business Incubation Centre UK ESA BIC UK (STFC) | Equity-free incubation funding for UK startups with a demonstrable space connection. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
EuraTechnologies Incubation & Acceleration EuraTechnologies | Lille incubator/accelerator (created 2009) across 5 sites, supporting ~200 startups a year with EUR 500M+ raised by alumni. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
EIC Accelerator European Innovation Council | The EU's flagship deep-tech funding: grant up to EUR 2.5M plus equity investment. | seed, series-a | Apply |
EWOR Fellowship EWOR | Highly selective Europe-wide founder fellowship investing in exceptional founders with weekly unicorn-founder coaching. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Expa Studio Expa | Garrett Camp's startup studio that builds and co-founds category-defining companies with design, operational support and capital. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Falak Flagship Accelerator Falak (Falak Startups) | A Saudi-focused accelerator investing in AI-core startups across construction, supply chain, retail, proptech and robotics. | seed, series-a | Apply |
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Non-dilutive funding you win by applying or competing: research grants, startup prizes, and pitch competitions.
Grants, prizes & competitions (77)
Each links out to its own program page to apply.
| Program | What it offers | Stage | Apply |
|---|---|---|---|
AECF Challenge Fund Competitions Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) | Pan-African challenge fund financing high-risk agribusiness and renewable-energy enterprises across Sub-Saharan Africa. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Africa's Business Heroes Prize Competition Africa's Business Heroes | Jack Ma Foundation's pan-African prize awarding grant funding, training and mentorship to standout African entrepreneurs. | seed, series-a, any | Apply |
AI Grant AI Grant | An accelerator by Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross for seed-stage AI product startups, with a SAFE plus large cloud/service credits. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Arbitrum Foundation Grant Programs Arbitrum Foundation | The Arbitrum Foundation runs a suite of active grant programs funding dApps, infrastructure and tools building on Arbitrum (Ethereum Layer 2), on a rolling basis. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Arch Grants Startup Competition Arch Grants | $75,000 equity-free grant (plus up to $25,000 relocation) for startups that base their headquarters in St. Louis. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
SBIR Matching Grant Arkansas Economic Development Commission | Arkansas reimbursable match for federal SBIR awardees. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Women Entrepreneurs Award Bayer Foundation | Non-dilutive award for women founders in health and food security. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Biotechnology Ignition Grant (BIG) BIRAC | India's flagship non-dilutive ignition grant for biotech startups. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Black Ambition Prize Black Ambition | Non-dilutive prize (up to $1M) for Black and Hispanic/Latino founders. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Neotec grant CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnologico Industrial) | Spain's public business-innovation agency awards Neotec grants to young, technology-based companies. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Construction Startup Competition & Leaplab Cemex Ventures | The corporate venture arm of Mexican multinational Cemex, backing construction-technology startups. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Longitude Prize (Health Challenges) Challenge Works | Challenge-prize programmes tackling major health problems. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CivTech Challenge CivTech Scotland | Scottish Government challenge-based accelerator paying startups to solve public-sector problems. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Advanced Industries Early-Stage Capital & Retention Grant Colorado OEDIT (Advanced Industries) | Up to $250,000 to help early-stage Colorado advanced-industries companies grow and stay in the state. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Advanced Industries Proof of Concept Grant Colorado OEDIT (Advanced Industries) | Up to $150,000 for pre-commercialization research and commercialization prep in Colorado's advanced industries. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Startup Booster / Poland Prize (Concordia) Concordia Design | Poznan-based Poland Prize accelerator operator (EU-cofunded). | pre-seed, seed | Applications closed |
Converge Challenge Converge | Scotland-wide entrepreneurial accelerator and competition (based at Heriot-Watt) for university staff, students and graduates, with challenge tracks (Net Zero, KickStart, Space, Hydrogen) and cash prizes. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
D-Prize Competition D-Prize | Non-dilutive seed funding to launch ventures distributing proven poverty interventions. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
DataTribe Startup Foundry & Challenge DataTribe | A cybersecurity and data-science startup foundry in the DC/Baltimore region that co-builds companies. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
DBS Foundation Grant DBS Foundation | Non-dilutive grants for purpose-driven businesses across Asia. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Envolve Entrepreneurship (EnvolveXL + Envolve Award Greece) Envolve Entrepreneurship | Greek nonprofit (since 2012) supporting entrepreneurs through acceleration and grants. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
XTC Global Startup Competition Extreme Tech Challenge | Global competition for purpose-driven startups aligned to the UN SDGs. | any | Apply |
Flourish Africa Grant Flourish Africa | Nigeria/Africa initiative providing seed grants of roughly NGN 2-3 million to female entrepreneurs from a NGN 1 billion fund, paired with training, coaching and mentoring. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Forward Grant Founderland | Quarterly EUR 10,000 equity-free grants for women of color entrepreneurs in Europe and the UK who face barriers tied to race, ethnicity or cultural background. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Kitty Fund Mom Business Grant Founders First CDC | $1,000 grant plus program access for US mother-owned businesses. | pre-seed, seed, any | Apply |
Stephen L. Tadlock Veteran Grant Founders First CDC | $1,000 grant plus program access for US veteran business owners. | pre-seed, seed, any | Apply |
Future of Health Grant Future of Health Grant | Equity-free digital health grant with three funding levels. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Jeff Lawrence Innovation Fund (Manufacturing Grants & Commercialization Competition) FuzeHub | New York State grants and a commercialization competition for startups and small manufacturers. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Young Entrepreneurs Grant Program GBDC Entrepreneurship Institute | Non-dilutive micro-grants for young Florida entrepreneurs under 25. | pre-seed, seed | Applications closed August 31, 2026 |
Keeling Curve Prize / Climate Curve Prize Global Warming Mitigation Project | Annual cash prize for global-warming-mitigation projects, startups and nonprofits. | any | Apply |
Grow-NY Food & Agriculture Competition Grow-NY (Cornell / Empire State Development) | Grow-NY is a food and agriculture business competition awarding $3M in non-dilutive prizes. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Global Change Award H&M Foundation | Non-dilutive innovation grant for early-stage textile/fashion circularity. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
HSBIR Matching Grant Hawaii Technology Development Corporation (HTDC) | Up to $75,000 (50% match) for Hawaii companies that receive federal SBIR/STTR Phase I awards. | seed | Apply |
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge Hello Tomorrow | Paris-based deeptech organization running a worldwide startup challenge with equity-free cash prizes plus acceleration and investor access. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Hult Prize Hult Prize Foundation | World's largest student startup competition, awarding USD 1M in non-dilutive seed funding. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
i2b Business Plan Competition i2b (ideas to business) | Austria's business-plan initiative with a national competition. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
iF Social Impact Prize iF International Forum Design | Non-dilutive prize for design-related projects advancing the UN SDGs. | any | Applications closed |
Supplemental Grant Program (SBIR/STTR match) Innovate Alabama | Non-dilutive grants supplementing federal SBIR/STTR awards: up to $100,000 (Phase I) and up to $250,000 (Phase II) for Alabama startups. | seed, series-a | Apply |
InsurTech Hartford Innovation Challenge InsurTech Hartford | Hartford-based insurtech community running an Innovation Challenge with cash prizes and industry access. | any | Apply |
Business Innovation Grant & startup support Invest Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland's regional economic development agency funds innovation and supports high-growth and exporting startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
JUMPSTARTER Global Pitch Competition JUMPSTARTER (Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund) | Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund's flagship Hong Kong global startup pitch competition. | seed, series-a | Apply |
KIC AgriTech Challenge & Startup Support Kosmos Innovation Center | Kosmos Energy-founded innovation center supporting young entrepreneurs in Ghana, Senegal and Mauritania with training, mentorship and seed funding, notably through its agritech-focused programs. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Kentucky SBIR/STTR Matching Funds Award Program KY Innovation (Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development) | Competitive, reimbursable Kentucky state match for SBIR/STTR awardees. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
LaunchKC Grants Competition LaunchKC | $60,000 equity-free grant plus workspace and mentorship for early-stage tech startups scaling in Kansas City. | seed | Apply |
Lush Spring Prize Lush Spring Prize | Biennial prize fund for social and environmental regeneration projects. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
START (SBIR Targeted Technologies) Grant Program MassVentures | Non-dilutive Massachusetts grants that help SBIR/STTR-awarded startups commercialize. | seed, series-a | Apply |
START Grant Program (SBIR Phase II commercialization) MassVentures | $100,000 to $500,000 in commercialization grants for Massachusetts startups that won federal SBIR/STTR Phase II awards. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize Program Milken-Motsepe Foundation | Multimillion-dollar innovation prize competitions advancing tech solutions for the SDGs with a spotlight on Africa. | seed, series-a, any | Apply |
NC IDEA MICRO Grant NC IDEA | $10,000 project-based grant for young North Carolina companies to validate assumptions and develop a business model. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
NC IDEA SEED Grant NC IDEA | $50,000 equity-free grant for North Carolina startups with a proven concept pursuing venture capital or significant revenue. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Nebraska SBIR/STTR Matching Grant Nebraska Department of Economic Development | State match of 65% of a federal SBIR/STTR award (max $100,000) for Nebraska small businesses. | seed | Apply |
Next Step Challenge growth program Next Step Challenge | Esbjerg-based business development program pairing growth-stage Danish companies with experienced advisory boards. | seed, series-a | Apply |
NN Social Innovation Startup Award NN Group | Equity-free grant for startups improving mental, physical or financial well-being. | pre-seed, seed | Applications closed April 14, 2026 |
Ocean Startup Challenge Ocean Startup Project | Non-dilutive challenge for early-stage ocean-technology startups. | idea, pre-seed | Applications closed |
Startup Challenge & Innovation Fund Penn Wharton Venture Lab | University of Pennsylvania's entrepreneurship hub (Tangen Hall) runs the Startup Challenge, Innovation Fund grants and internship awards. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
PIER71 Smart Port Challenge & Accelerate PIER71 (NUS Enterprise x MPA) | Singapore's maritime tech innovation ecosystem by NUS Enterprise and the Maritime Port Authority; runs the annual Smart Port Challenge and acceleration, having awarded S$2.75M in pilot grants to 55 startups and validated 190+ globally. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
The Roddenberry Prize Roddenberry Foundation | Equity-free US$1M prize for AI/ML solutions advancing the UN SDGs. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Scottish EDGE Award Scottish EDGE | Scotland's biggest business funding competition (publicly backed) awards grant-and-loan packages to high-potential founders. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Skoll Award for Social Innovation Skoll Foundation | Prestigious award giving USD 2M unrestricted funding to proven social innovators. | series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Student Startup & Innovation Policy (SSIP 2.0) Grant SSIP Gujarat (Education Dept, Govt of Gujarat) | Gujarat's student startup policy gives seed grants and IP support to student innovators and startups across 250+ institutes. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
StartupTN / TANSEED Grant StartupTN | The Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation Mission (Government of Tamil Nadu), supporting startups with grants, incubation and market access. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Taiko Grant Program Taiko | The Taiko grant program funds developers building on Taiko, an Ethereum-equivalent (Type-1) ZK-rollup / based rollup. | any | Apply |
Founders Battle (startup pitch competition) TechChill | Latvia's flagship tech foundation and its Founders Battle competition. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
The Earthshot Prize The Earthshot Prize | Prince William's global environmental prize awarding GBP 1,000,000 each to five winners annually across five categories (nature, air, oceans, waste, climate); nomination-based, with finalist support. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
The Elevate Prize (Prize, Catalyst Award, GET LOUD) The Elevate Prize Foundation | Foundation awarding non-dilutive grants and visibility to social-impact leaders. | seed, series-a | Apply |
The Trinity Challenge (health-security competitions) The Trinity Challenge | Charity running challenge competitions funding data-driven solutions to global health threats. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Yass Prize / STOP Awards The Yass Foundation for Education | Large non-dilutive prizes for education innovators nationwide. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Velocity $100K Challenge & Ideas Challenge University of Auckland (Velocity / CIE) | University of Auckland's Velocity runs the $100K Challenge and Ideas Challenge with cash prizes and mentorship. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Elevate Grant University of Sussex | The University of Sussex Elevate Grant awards up to £5,000 to current students and recent graduates running an active venture. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Applications closed |
venture Startup Competition venture (venture.ch) | Switzerland's leading startup competition since 1997. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Venture Leaders / TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award Venturelab | Venturelab's flagship Swiss startup programs: international roadshows and awards. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
E-Team Grant Program VentureWell | Non-dilutive grants and training for student and university STEM hardware inventors. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
VIT Pitch Contest & Entrepreneurship Program VetsInTech | Entrepreneurship programs and a $40,000 pitch contest for veteran/military-spouse startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Wege Prize Wege Prize | Non-dilutive student competition for circular-economy solutions. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Amber Grant WomensNet | Monthly and annual cash grants for women-owned businesses. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Innovate for Impact Challenge World Food Prize Foundation | Competition spotlighting early-stage agtech and food-innovation companies. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Zayed Sustainability Prize Zayed Sustainability Prize | UAE global sustainability prize awarding SMEs, non-profits and schools across six categories. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Government, national, and institutional programs, funds, and support schemes a startup applies to for capital or resources.
Funding & startup programs (736, showing 150)
Each links out to its own program page to apply.
| Program | What it offers | Stage | Apply |
|---|---|---|---|
100 Open Startups (100-10-1 Program & Ranking) 100 Open Startups | Brazilian open-innovation platform connecting startups with corporations and investors. | seed, series-a | Apply |
100X.VC (iSAFE) Seed Program 100X.VC | India's first VC to use iSAFE notes; invests a first cheque in idea-to-early-stage founders plus a 6-week HomeRun masterclass in Mumbai and a VC pitch day. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
1517 Fund (Medici Grants & Investment) 1517 Fund | A fund founded by ex-Thiel Fellowship leaders backing young founders, dropouts and deep-tech scientists, starting with micro-grants. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
50 Partners Acceleration 50 Partners | Paris accelerator run by 50 successful French founders (BlaBlaCar, Dataiku, Leboncoin) with Tech, Impact, Health and Web3 tracks. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
500 Global Portfolio Perks 500 Global | 500 Global portfolio companies get an approved-partner perks bundle and qualify for top-tier cloud credits. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Aalto Startup Center (Business Generator) Aalto University | Aalto Startup Center runs the Business Generator accelerator plus pre-incubators, with mentorship and space in Otaniemi. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Aave Grants DAO Aave Grants DAO | Community-led grants program funding teams building on Aave Pools or with GHO, via rapid grants and larger community grants. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
ABB Technology Ventures ABB | ABB's corporate venture capital investing in industrial-tech startups across electrification, automation, robotics and sustainability. | series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
SynerLeap ABB (SynerLeap) | ABB's open-innovation growth hub for industrial and tech startups. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Business Grants & Innovation Funding (incl. SMART Cymru support) AberInnovation | Welsh innovation campus helping startups access R&D grants and innovation funding. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
ADIO Support Programmes & Investor Incentives Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) | Abu Dhabi's investment office offering structured support programmes and incentives to companies establishing in the emirate. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Accelerace Accelerace | Copenhagen pre-seed investor and accelerator (2,000+ startups since 2008) for Nordic and Baltic early-stage companies. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
accent Inkubator accent Gruenderservice | High-tech incubator of the state of Lower Austria (Niederösterreich). | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
ACE.SG Programs (GlobalScale / Startup Support Package) Action Community for Entrepreneurship (ACE) | Singapore's national startup ecosystem body. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
adMare Company Creation & Academy adMare BioInnovations | Canada's life-sciences company-creation engine. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
ARPA-H SBIR/STTR Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) | ARPA-H funds small businesses pursuing transformative health R&D through SBIR/STTR awards. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
ATDC Startup Programs (Educate, Accelerate, Signature) Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) | Free, zero-equity, state-funded technology incubator at Georgia Tech supporting Georgia startups from ideation through scale. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Misión Emprende 593 / GuayaLab / AEI SciTech AEI (Alianza para el Emprendimiento e Innovación) | Ecuador's public-private entrepreneurship-and-innovation alliance running training, mentoring and market-access programs for startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Refugee Entrepreneurship Program Afghan Future Fund | Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors-sponsored program providing mentorship and seed funding to refugee founders (including Afghan founders in the UK and Canada). | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Afore Alpha Afore Capital | A standardized pre-seed program giving pre-product founders $1M and personalized resources, positioned as more capital at a higher valuation than a traditional accelerator, with no MFN terms. | pre-seed | Apply |
AfriLabs Programs (Catalytic Africa, RevUp Women, Connect Deal Room) AfriLabs | Pan-African network of 500+ innovation hubs running co-investment, women's enterprise and investor-readiness programs. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
AFWERX SBIR/STTR Open Topic AFWERX (U.S. Department of the Air Force) | The U.S. Air Force innovation arm funds dual-use tech startups with non-dilutive SBIR/STTR Open Topic contracts. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
1,000 Young Entrepreneurs Aiducation International | Seed funding and coaching program for founders under 30 in Kenya and the Philippines. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Airbus Ventures Airbus | Airbus-anchored deep-tech venture firm backing early-stage founders building critical aerospace, space and industrial infrastructure. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Airbus BizLab Airbus BizLab | Airbus's 6-month global aerospace accelerator with a Hamburg location. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Pathfinders (and Explorer) Airtree Ventures | Leading ANZ VC's talent programs: Pathfinders for aspiring young founders and Explorer for emerging angel investors, plus open company-building resources. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
AIS The StartUp AIS The StartUp | Thai telco AIS's startup partnership and acceleration program. | seed, series-a, any | Apply |
Alacrity Canada Startup & Scale Programs Alacrity Canada | Victoria, BC non-profit (Alacrity Foundation of BC) running a 12-month Startup Visa advisory/mentorship program plus sector programs like ARC Lab (defence/security) and APEX (trade growth). | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Alacrity Entrepreneurship Programme Alacrity Foundation | Newport (Wales) foundation building startups by training and backing graduate entrepreneurs. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Micro Voucher Program Alberta Innovates | Non-dilutive micro-grant (up to $10,000 CAD) for early-stage Alberta tech SMEs commercializing novel technology. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Applications closed May 29, 2026 |
Aleo Grants Aleo Network Foundation | The Aleo grants program funds developers and teams building privacy-preserving zero-knowledge applications and tooling on the Aleo blockchain. | any | Apply |
Aleph Cloud Acceleratooor (Builder Program) Aleph Cloud | Decentralized cloud (compute and storage) that grants Web3 startups platform credits for a year. | pre-seed, seed, series-a, any | Apply |
Life Science Startup Platform Alexandria LaunchLabs | Early-stage life-science startup platform providing move-in-ready lab and office space, shared equipment and access to Alexandria Venture Investments and the Seed Capital Platform across six US hubs. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Startup & Growth Loans Almi (Sweden) | Swedish state-owned company providing loans (including green loans), venture capital and business-development coaching to startups and SMEs, complementing bank financing for early-stage companies. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Loan for Starting a Business ALTUM | Latvia's state development finance institution lends to new entrepreneurs and early-stage companies. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Amplifica Capital investment & Pitch Practice Amplifica Capital | Latin America's first VC firm investing specifically in women founders. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
ANDHealth+ digital health commercialisation program ANDHealth | Australia's dedicated digital health commercialisation accelerator, offering large non-dilutive grants plus staged programs from idea to exit. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Anthill Speed Scaling Anthill Ventures | Hyderabad 'speed-scaling' investor-accelerator for media-tech, healthtech and urban/climate startups. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Antler Portfolio Perks Antler | Antler-backed companies unlock partner perks and qualify for top-tier startup cloud credit programs. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Apple Entrepreneur Camp Apple | Apple's free program offering technology lab access and mentorship for app-driven businesses led by underrepresented founders and developers. | pre-seed, seed, any | Apply |
Aptos Ecosystem Grants Aptos Foundation | Non-dilutive, milestone-based grants (typically $5,000 to $50,000) for founders and startups building applications, infrastructure, and tools that expand the Aptos network. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Aptos Foundation Grants Aptos Foundation | Aptos Foundation grants for MVP-stage-and-beyond founders building tools, payments infrastructure, and user experiences on Aptos, via Ecosystem Grants and a dedicated Payments track. The Foundation has committed $150M+ to the ecosystem. | seed, any | Apply |
Aramco Ventures Aramco | Saudi Aramco's corporate venturing arm managing USD 7.5B committed across multiple funds (Sustainability, Digital/Industrial, Prosperity7) and a Strategic Venturing Program. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
ArbiFuel Arbitrum Foundation | Gas-fee sponsorship program from the Arbitrum Foundation so teams can ship, test and onboard users on Arbitrum without gas cost friction. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
ARPA-E funding (SCALEUP & open FOAs) ARPA-E (U.S. Department of Energy) | The U.S. DOE's ARPA-E funds high-potential energy technology, including startups, with non-dilutive R&D and scale-up awards. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Ashden Awards Ashden | UK climate charity awarding grants and support to leading climate solutions. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Astana Hub Acceleration & Astana Hub Ventures Astana Hub | Kazakhstan's flagship international technopark runs acceleration programs (AI'preneurs, Central Eurasia Market Entry, Hero Training) and invests early-stage capital through Astana Hub Ventures. Residents get 0% corporate income tax plus coworking, mentorship and export support. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Astia Investment & Expert Network Astia | Global investment and expert-network program for women-led startups. | seed, series-a | Apply |
AstroLabs Market-Entry & Innovation Programs AstroLabs | A Gulf business-expansion platform running market-entry and corporate-innovation programs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Research and Development Tax Incentive (R&DTI) Australian Government (business.gov.au) | Australia's R&D Tax Incentive offsets eligible R&D costs, with a refundable offset for small companies. | seed, series-a, any | Apply |
Autodesk Foundation Funding Autodesk Foundation | Foundation funding for impact-focused nonprofits and startups. | seed, series-a | Apply |
AwakenHub Founder Programmes AwakenHub | Island-of-Ireland community and programmes supporting women founders. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Axis Funding (PSSF, iHPSU) & Startup Support AxisBIC (formerly Cork BIC) | Munster business innovation centre helping high-potential startups validate, build and raise funding. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Aztec Grants Aztec | Grants program funding community-led projects that build the privacy ecosystem on Aztec (a private zk-rollup on Ethereum) and its Noir smart-contract language. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
B4i Acceleration B4i (Bocconi for Innovation) | Bocconi University's innovation accelerator in Milan; 259 startups supported. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BFB Acceleration Program Bahrain FinTech Bay | The leading fintech hub in Bahrain (supported by the Central Bank of Bahrain) runs acceleration programs giving fintech startups regulatory sandbox access, mentorship, incubation and investor connections to expand across MENA. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Baita Aceleradora Baita Aceleradora | Campinas (Sao Paulo) startup accelerator with 200+ startups accelerated over a decade. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Barcelona Activa Incubators + IMPULSEM Acceleration Barcelona Activa | Barcelona City Council's local development agency running public incubation and acceleration. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Barclays Eagle Labs Barclays (Eagle Labs) | Barclays' UK startup and scaleup ecosystem offering incubation, mentoring, funding-readiness support and ecosystem programs. | idea, pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Barclays Eagle Labs Ecosystem & Scale-up Programs Barclays Eagle Labs | Barclays' nationwide UK ecosystem of incubation spaces and programs supporting startups and scale-ups with mentoring, funding readiness and sector cohorts across the UK. | idea, pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Base Builder Grants Base | Rapid, low-friction retroactive ETH grants (1-5 ETH) for builders who have shipped prototypes, side projects, and experiments on Base. Base has distributed $26M+ to 1,000+ builders. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Base Ecosystem Fund Base | Base's ecosystem fund (operated with Coinbase Ventures) invests in pre-seed and seed startups that make Base their home, providing white-glove support, exclusive partner perks (AWS, Azure, Alchemy credits), and priority access to Coinbase services. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BaseLaunch BaseLaunch | Basel biotech accelerator providing financing and lab access to therapeutics ventures. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
G4A Digital Health Partnerships Bayer G4A | Bayer's digital-health accelerator and partnership program (the first pharma accelerator), offering funding, mentorship and commercial collaboration for e-health startups. | seed, series-a | Apply |
BayStartUP Business Plan Competitions & Investor Network BayStartUP | Bavaria's central startup network for financing and business planning. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Bayview Betaworks & Prototyping Lab Bayview Yards | Ottawa's Bayview Yards: business advisory plus a prototyping and Betaworks living lab for startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BDC startup financing & venture capital BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada) | Canada's federal development bank provides loans, working capital and venture capital to Canadian entrepreneurs and tech startups. | pre-seed, seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
be-advanced Startup Program be-advanced | Canton Bern's innovation-promotion agency for startups and SMEs. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BeAngels Business Angel Network BeAngels | Business angel investment network across Belgium, Luxembourg and France. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BeCentral Startup Programs BeCentral | Brussels digital campus running founder programs (We Are Founders, SustAIn) and a space Business Incubation Center, plus coworking and tech training. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Ben Franklin Technology Partners Ben Franklin Technology Partners | Pennsylvania's state-funded innovation network invests in and supports early-stage tech startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BerriUp Acceleration Program BerriUp | Basque Country's top-ranked startup accelerator, based in Bilbao and San Sebastián. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Berytech Startup Programs Berytech | Lebanon's leading startup ecosystem, running incubation and acceleration programs across agrifood, energy and cleantech. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Betaworks Camp Betaworks | A thematic, cohort-based accelerator (currently AI-focused 'Camps') for early-stage founders building with frontier technology in NYC. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Big Bang Angels Acceleration Big Bang Angels | Korea/Singapore early-stage investor and accelerator for cross-border startups in AI, healthcare and agtech. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BioGenerator Ventures & Labs BioGenerator | St. Louis life-sciences company-builder and investor providing proof-of-concept grants, lab space and capital. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BioLabs Shared Lab Network BioLabs | An international, membership-based network of shared lab and office facilities in biotech clusters, providing no-equity bench space plus Golden Ticket grants to life-science startups. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Blue Innovative Startup Acceleration (BISA) BISA (Blue Innovative Startup Acceleration) | Indonesia blue-economy startup acceleration program. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Bluelion Acceleration Program / KlimUp Bluelion | Zurich-based startup hub, accelerator and incubator foundation. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BMW Startup Garage BMW Group | BMW's venture-client unit that runs paid pilot projects with startups (no equity), with a path to becoming an official BMW supplier. | seed, series-a | Apply |
BMW Startup Garage BMW Group | BMW's venture-client unit: startups run a paid proof-of-concept directly with a BMW business unit, gaining BMW Group as an early adopter client rather than taking equity. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund Boehringer Ingelheim | Boehringer Ingelheim's corporate venture fund investing in biotech and digital-health startups pursuing breakthrough therapeutics and platform technologies. | seed, series-a | Apply |
BOM Startup & Scale-up Support BOM (Brabant Development Agency) | North Brabant regional development agency offering venture-development support and financing for startups in food, health, energy, deeptech, AI and defense. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Startup Journey Boost Turku | Student-run entrepreneurship society and accelerator in Turku, Finland, offering completely free programs and grants to aspiring and early-stage founders. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Boost VC Boost VC | A San Mateo pre-seed program and fund backing ambitious deep-tech, crypto and 'sci-fi' founders. | pre-seed | Apply |
Born2Global Acceleration & Global Expansion Born2Global Centre | South Korean government-affiliated (MSIT/KISED) startup support agency helping Korean startups scale globally through acceleration, market-entry and global-network programs. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Bosch Ventures Bosch | Bosch's corporate venture capital (formerly Robert Bosch Venture Capital) investing globally in deep-tech and industrial startups. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Bosch Ventures (RBVC) Bosch | Bosch's corporate VC arm, with a new ~EUR 250M fund, invests in deep-tech startups (AI, energy efficiency, industrial) and pairs capital with operational guidance from Bosch. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Open Bosch Bosch | Open Bosch is Bosch's venture-client unit, giving startups fast-track access to become a customer, supplier or co-innovator with Bosch business units through paid pilot projects. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Women Founder Grants & Support Boundless Futures Foundation | US foundation providing grants and support (FoundHer resources) to women entrepreneurs aged 22+ running businesses registered and operating in the United States. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Bourse French Tech Bpifrance | France's public investment bank awards the Bourse French Tech grant to help innovative early-stage startups fund feasibility and launch. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Brain Chile (UC + Santander) Brain Chile | Science-and-technology entrepreneurship competition by the UC Innovation Center and Banco Santander, awarding up to US$40k in prizes. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Brainsparks Innovation Programs (Ecothon, Founders Circle) Brainsparks | Philippine innovation ecosystem booster running accelerator-style programs (Ecothon for early-stage startups), Founders Circle peer learning, mentoring/management coaching and market-access programs; organizer of Echelon Philippines. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Breakthrough Energy Fellows Breakthrough Energy | Global climate program founded by Bill Gates providing substantial non-dilutive funding to scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs with early-stage breakthrough climate technologies (Innovator, Explorer and Ignite pathways). | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
BGI Venture Acceleration Building Global Innovators (BGI) | Lisbon accelerator and venture builder with a 15+ year track record. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
BDC Entrepreneurship & Self-Employment Programs Business Development Center (BDC) Jordan | Jordanian nonprofit running entrepreneurship, incubation and self-employment programs, including donor-funded initiatives. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Tempo funding (startup funding for growth) Business Finland | Finnish government innovation funding agency grant helping young companies validate international demand and prepare to raise private funding. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Business Gateway Startup Support Business Gateway | Scotland's publicly funded service offering free advice and support to startups and entrepreneurs. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
SBIR/STTR Application Support & Matching Grants Business Oregon | Oregon's state grants help small businesses win and match federal SBIR/STTR awards. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
bwcon Startup Support & Pre-Seed bwcon | Baden-Wurttemberg's leading high-tech business initiative. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CABHI Ignite / Fuel CABHI | Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation funding programs. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Capital Factory Capital Factory | Texas's most active early-stage investor and startup ecosystem, offering an accelerator/membership plus direct fund investment. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Cartier Women's Initiative Awards Cartier Women's Initiative | Cartier's annual international entrepreneurship program and awards for women-run, impact-driven businesses (since 2006). | seed, series-a | Apply |
Casa do Impacto (Santa Casa) Casa do Impacto | Social-impact incubator/accelerator run by Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CASSINI Space Entrepreneurship Initiative CASSINI | The European Commission's initiative supporting space startups and SMEs (2021-2027) via business accelerators, hackathons, cash-prize competitions, a matchmaking service and a €1B seed/growth fund. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Catalyst Entrepreneur Programmes Catalyst | Independent non-profit science and technology hub for Northern Ireland (Belfast, Derry/Londonderry) running founder programmes across stages (Co-builders, Springboard, Way to Scale) plus the INVENT competition. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Armenia Startup Academy CATALYST Foundation | The CATALYST Hi-Tech and Entrepreneurship Development Foundation (Armenia) runs the Armenia Startup Academy pre-acceleration program plus incubation/traction programs, offering a 12-week curriculum, 100+ mentors and cloud credits. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Recoverable Grants Facility & Armenia Startup Academy Catalyst Foundation (BANA / Hero House) | Armenian entrepreneurship foundation offering a Recoverable Grants Facility (with SmartGateVC and EFSE) of up to EUR 25,000 per early-stage startup / EUR 50,000 per R&D company, plus the Armenia Startup Academy pre-acceleration program. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Catalyst Fund Pre-Seed Program Catalyst Fund | Africa-focused pre-seed fund and venture-builder backing climate and fintech resilience startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CDP Venture Capital Funds & Programs CDP Venture Capital | Italy's national venture capital fund-of-funds and direct investor. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
CEEZER Carbon Coalition CEEZER | Free accelerator connecting early carbon-removal and nature-based project developers to buyers. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Celo Ecosystem Funding (Proof of Ship, Prezenti, Verda Ventures) Celo Foundation | Celo's funding hub for builders: Proof of Ship monthly retroactive rewards, Prezenti community grants, and Verda Ventures funding for MiniPay builders. | any | Apply |
Celo Foundation Grants Celo Foundation | Celo Foundation grants supporting projects aligned with Celo's financial-inclusion mission. The program has funded 90+ projects across 54 countries (~$4.9M across waves), complemented by community programs like Prezenti and the Celo Builder Fund. | any | Apply |
Centech Acceleration Program Centech | Montreal deep-tech/medtech/edtech accelerator (ETS); 12 weeks, free, no equity taken. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Chainlink BUILD Program Chainlink | Chainlink Economics program that accelerates early-stage and established projects with enhanced access to Chainlink services, technical support and ecosystem visibility, in exchange for a percentage of the project's token supply directed to the Chainlink ecosystem. | pre-seed, seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Chalmers Ventures Programs Chalmers Ventures | Gothenburg deep-tech venture builder and investor turning Nordic research into companies, from lab to market. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | CZI's EOSS program funds maintenance, growth, development, and community engagement for open-source software tools critical to scientific research. Cycles award dozens of grants across genomics, imaging, bioinformatics, and related fields. | any | Apply |
Chevron Technology Ventures Chevron | Chevron's CVC (since 1999) investing in energy and industrial startups, plus a Catalyst Program for early-stage companies and Chevron Studio lab-to-field pathway. | seed, series-a | Apply |
ChileGlobal Ventures acceleration & investment ChileGlobal Ventures (Fundación Chile) | Entrepreneurship, innovation and investment arm of Fundación Chile running acceleration programs and VC vehicles. | seed, series-a | Apply |
Choose Paris Region Startup Programs Choose Paris Region | Paris Region's investment-promotion agency running soft-landing/acceleration and TechMeeting programs to help international startups establish in the region. | seed, series-a | Apply |
CincyTech Seed Investment CincyTech | Early, seed-stage investment and hands-on support for southwest Ohio (Cincinnati) tech and life-science startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
ClimateLaunchpad ClimateLaunchpad | EIT Climate-KIC's ClimateLaunchpad, the world's largest green business ideas competition, offering free bootcamps, coaching, and regional/global finals across 51 countries with no entry fee. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Open Source Funding Clojurists Together | Clojurists Together pays open-source maintainers to work on Clojure and ClojureScript projects through quarterly funding cycles and annual grants. It has distributed over $1.2M across 92 developers in 55 countries since 2018. | any | Apply |
Fonds d'aide au jeu video (FAJV) CNC (Centre national du cinema et de l'image animee) | France's national film and moving-image agency support fund for video game creation and production. | idea, pre-seed, seed, any | Apply |
CodeBase Startup Pathways / Techscaler CodeBase | Scotland's leading startup incubator (Edinburgh-based, multiple locations) offering early-stage pathways, high-growth scale-up support and digital/AI skills; delivers the Scottish Government's Techscaler network. | idea, pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Coinvest Capital (state co-investment fund) Coinvest Capital | Lithuania's state-backed co-investment fund for startups. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
StartupColumbia & Columbia Startup Lab Columbia University Entrepreneurship | Columbia University's Campbell Center for Entrepreneurship, running the StartupColumbia Competition and Columbia Startup Lab. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Venture Client Alliance Combient Foundry | Venture-client program connecting startups with major Nordic industrial corporates for paid pilots, run from Helsinki and Stockholm. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus | Apply |
Deep-tech Acceleration Program Commercialization Reactor | Award-winning deep-tech and science-commercialization platform with a venture fund, founded in Latvia in 2009, building companies by pairing scientists with entrepreneurs. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Communitech Startup Programs (incl. Fierce Founders) Communitech | Waterloo Region innovation hub offering programs, funding and peer support for founders at every stage, including the relaunched Fierce Founders pipeline for women and non-binary tech founders. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Vogt Invention and Innovation Awards Community Foundation of Louisville | Equity-free grant and accelerator for early-stage Louisville-region founders. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Venture Scientist / Deep-Tech PhD Programme Conception X | UK 9-month venture-building programme supporting ~100 PhD founders per year to build deep-tech startups alongside their research, with coaching, a Raise investment-readiness track and peer community. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Concree Entrepreneurship Support & Programs Concree | Dakar and Saint-Louis-based entrepreneurship-support organisation that has delivered 50+ programs, helping Senegalese and African entrepreneurs structure, launch and grow ventures with coaching, tools and investor connections. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Pre-Seed Investment Connecticut Innovations | Connecticut's state VC arm invests up to $150K in early-stage local startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Conservation X Labs Prizes & Challenges Conservation X Labs | Open-innovation organization running prizes and challenges for biodiversity and conservation-technology innovators, having awarded $12M+ to 189 breakthrough solutions. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Conviction Embed Conviction | Selective accelerator for AI-native 'Software 3.0' startups: a $250K uncapped MFN SAFE plus $1.2M+ in AWS, Azure, and other compute credits, with an SF retreat and demo day. | idea, pre-seed | Apply |
Copenhagen Fintech Lab and Programs Copenhagen Fintech | Nordic fintech hub offering lab space, incubation, scale-up support and international delegations. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Corfo Programas y Convocatorias (Semilla Inicia / Expande, etc.) Corfo | Chile's national economic development agency funding entrepreneurship and innovation through equity-free grants and programs. | idea, pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
Cradle Investment Programme (CIP Spark / CIP Sprint) Cradle Fund | Malaysian government early-stage grant agency under MOSTI. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Creative Business Cup Creative Business Network | Global competition for entrepreneurs in the creative industries. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Cultivator Startup Programs Cultivator powered by Conexus | Regina-based Cultivator (by Conexus Credit Union): Saskatchewan startup incubator/accelerator; 106+ startups. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
CV Labs Acceleration Program CV VC | Crypto Valley (Zug) accelerator and seed investor for blockchain, digital-finance and AI startups. | seed | Apply |
Climate Tech Acceleration Program Cycle Momentum | Canadian accelerator for climate-tech and sustainable-agriculture startups. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
DARPA SBIR/STTR DARPA (Small Business Programs Office) | DARPA funds small businesses to create radical, game-changing technologies through SBIR/STTR. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Darwin Startups Acceleration Darwin Startups | Florianópolis-based accelerator investing in and accelerating early-stage Brazilian startups with corporate access and mentorship. | pre-seed, seed | Apply |
DSV Venture Creation & Venture Science Doctorate Deep Science Ventures | London-based venture creator combining scientific knowledge with founder-type scientists to build ventures across agriculture, computation, climate, pharma and education; runs a Venture Science Doctorate. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
DIU Commercial Solutions Opening Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) | DIU awards fast, non-dilutive prototype contracts to commercial companies solving national-security problems. | seed, series-a, series-b-plus, any | Apply |
EDGE Grants Delaware Division of Small Business | Competitive matching grants for young Delaware small businesses across a STEM track and an Entrepreneur track. | idea, pre-seed, seed | Apply |
Startup Energy Transition (SET) dena (German Energy Agency) | Global energy-transition innovation platform and award powered by Germany's dena. | pre-seed, seed, series-a | Apply |
DB mindbox Deutsche Bahn (DB mindbox) | Deutsche Bahn's startup accelerator for rail and mobility solutions. | seed, series-a | Apply |
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