Startup grant deadlines — the next 6 months
Every published deadline from September 2026 to February 2027, plus the windows programmes usually reopen in, labelled as a projection wherever it is one — never a date we invented.
September 2026
3 known deadlines
- Enterprise Development Grant (EDG) — 🇸🇬 Singapore · closes 2026-09-29 Closes in 3 days
- Start!Klar plus (Styria) — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-09-30 Closes in 4 days
- Vienna Business Agency – Digitalisation grant — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-09-30 Closes in 4 days
October 2026
6 known deadlines
- Mission Climate-Neutral City 2026 — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-10-01 Closes in 5 days
- Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-10-14
- NASA SBIR Ignite — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-15
- SPRIND Challenges — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-16
- New Business Expansion / Manufacturing, Commerce and Service Subsidy — 🇯🇵 Japan · closes 2026-10-30
- Canton of Basel-Stadt rent subsidy for tech start-ups — 🇨🇭 Switzerland · closes 2026-10-31
19 usually open around this month (projected from the funder's own pattern — not a confirmed date)
- MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around October
- SXSW Pitch — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around October
- Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around October
- Biomedical Catalyst — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around October
- Farming Innovation Programme — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around October
- Innovate UK Smart Grants — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around October
- Women in Innovation Awards — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around October
- Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowships — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around October
- Creative Europe Culture strand — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around October
- EIT HEI Initiative: Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around October
- Breakthrough Energy Fellows — 🌐 Global · usually opens around October
- Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards — 🌐 Global · usually opens around October
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship — 🌐 Global · usually opens around October
- Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 🇫🇷 France · usually opens around October
- Starter Scholarship Saar — 🇩🇪 Germany · usually opens around October
- SEAI Research, Development and Demonstration Fund — 🇮🇪 Ireland · usually opens around October
- Tokyo Startup Grant (Sogyo Josei) — 🇯🇵 Japan · usually opens around October
- 4YFN Awards (Mobile World Congress) — 🇪🇸 Spain · usually opens around October
- Cyberport Incubation Programme — 🇭🇰 Hong Kong · usually opens around October
November 2026
5 known deadlines
- DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-11-04
- European Innovation Council Accelerator — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-11-04
- EIC Accelerator Challenges (thematic calls) — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-11-04
- Distr@l line 4 – Validation and growth phase (4A validation research, 4B start-up growth) — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-11-29
- >>venture>> Swiss start-up competition — 🇨🇭 Switzerland · closes 2026-11-30
4 usually open around this month (projected from the funder's own pattern — not a confirmed date)
- DASA Open Call for Innovation — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around November
- The Earthshot Prize — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around November
- MassChallenge Switzerland Early-Stage Accelerator — 🇨🇭 Switzerland · usually opens around November
- Start-Up Chile Build — 🇨🇱 Chile · usually opens around November
December 2026
13 known deadlines
- Distr@l line 1 – Feasibility studies — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-12-02
- Distr@l line 2 – Digital innovation projects (2A product, 2B process, 2C digital pioneers) — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-12-02
- EUIPO SME Fund 2026, craft and industrial geographical indications voucher — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-12-04
- EUIPO SME Fund 2026, Voucher 3: national and European patents — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-12-04
- EUIPO SME Fund 2026, Voucher 4: Community plant variety rights — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-12-04
- Verizon Small Business Digital Ready National Grant — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-12-07
- UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D 2026 — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-12-16
- Early Phase Financing — 🇳🇱 Netherlands · closes 2026-12-31
- FFG Frontrunner — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-12-31
- FFG Innovation Voucher with own contribution — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-12-31
- Vienna Business Agency – Innovation grant — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-12-31
- Vienna Business Agency – Production grant — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-12-31
- Vienna Business Agency – Site expansion grant — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-12-31
5 usually open around this month (projected from the funder's own pattern — not a confirmed date)
- Rice Business Plan Competition — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around December
- EU Innovation Fund - general decarbonisation calls — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around December
- EU Innovation Fund - European Hydrogen Bank Auction — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around December
- EU Innovation Fund - Net-Zero Technologies Call — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around December
- EU Innovation Fund - small-scale projects (capex below EUR 20m) — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around December
January 2027
33 usually open around this month (projected from the funder's own pattern — not a confirmed date)
- Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation and Start-up Fund (TVSF) Phase 1 — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around January
- Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation and Start-up Fund (TVSF) Phase 2 — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around January
- NASA SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around January
- Value-Added Producer Grants (VAPG) — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around January
- Faraday Battery Challenge — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around January
- Innovate UK Innovation Loans (Future Economy) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around January
- Mayor's Civic Innovation Challenge — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around January
- Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- Chips Joint Undertaking (formerly KDT JU) — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- EIT Food Seedbed Incubator — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- EUIPO SME Fund 2026, Voucher 1: IP Scan and IP Scan Enforcement — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- EUIPO SME Fund 2026, Voucher 2: trade mark and design applications — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI) — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- New European Bauhaus (NEB) calls and prizes — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking (digital European sky) — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around January
- Epic MegaGrants — 🌐 Global · usually opens around January
- Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) — 🌐 Global · usually opens around January
- VivaTech innovation awards and partner challenges — 🇫🇷 France · usually opens around January
- Empower Start (female entrepreneurship supports) — 🇮🇪 Ireland · usually opens around January
- FFG Impact Innovation — 🇦🇹 Austria · usually opens around January
- FFG Impact Innovation Social — 🇦🇹 Austria · usually opens around January
- FFG Projekt.Start — 🇦🇹 Austria · usually opens around January
- The Liveability Challenge (Temasek Foundation) — 🇸🇬 Singapore · usually opens around January
- Startup Leap Package — 🇰🇷 South Korea · usually opens around January
- Early-Stage Startup Package — 🇰🇷 South Korea · usually opens around January
- Youth Startup Academy (KOSME) — 🇰🇷 South Korea · usually opens around January
- Startup Growth Technology Development Programme (R&D) — 🇰🇷 South Korea · usually opens around January
- Pre-Startup Package — 🇰🇷 South Korea · usually opens around January
- Innobooster — 🇩🇰 Denmark · usually opens around January
- Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme — 🇳🇬 Nigeria · usually opens around January
February 2027
17 usually open around this month (projected from the funder's own pattern — not a confirmed date)
- MIT delta v accelerator (Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship) — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around February
- Scottish EDGE Awards — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around February
- Creative Europe Cross-sectoral strand (incl. Innovation Lab, Journalism Partnerships) — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around February
- EIT Health Headstart — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around February
- EIT RawMaterials Booster Call — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around February
- GradStart — 🇮🇪 Ireland · usually opens around February
- Global Startup Academy — 🇰🇷 South Korea · usually opens around February
- SMART Path – R&D projects call — 🇵🇱 Poland · usually opens around February
- Cyberport Creative Micro Fund (CCMF) — 🇭🇰 Hong Kong · usually opens around February
- Technology Start-up Support Scheme for Universities (TSSSU) — 🇭🇰 Hong Kong · usually opens around February
- Service Industry Innovation Research (SIIR) Programme — 🇹🇼 Taiwan · usually opens around February
- Technology Development Fund – Market Grant — 🇮🇸 Iceland · usually opens around February
- Technology Development Fund – Sprout — 🇮🇸 Iceland · usually opens around February
- Technology Development Fund – Growth — 🇮🇸 Iceland · usually opens around February
- P2 – Incentives for start-up of innovative companies — 🇸🇮 Slovenia · usually opens around February
- QRDI Council national research and innovation calls — 🇶🇦 Qatar · usually opens around February
- Uruguay to the World (internationalisation support) — 🇺🇾 Uruguay · usually opens around February