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DOST Startup Grant Fund

DOST Startup Grant Fund (SGF)

Status

Closed for now

The Startup Grant Fund is a standing facility under the Innovative Startup Act with recurring calls funded from the annual national budget. Monitor startupgrantfund.dost.gov.ph and PCIEERD announcements for the next call.

Closed
Amount
5,000,000 PHP

Grants under the Innovative Startup Act (Republic Act 11337) for startup development, prototyping and commercialisation. Award sizes vary by call and by implementing DOST council, historically ranging from several hundred thousand to a few million pesos.

Funder

Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Philippines

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — Runs in calls announced by DOST and its councils (notably PCIEERD), typically with windows of four to eight weeks.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

Who can apply

Philippine-registered startups and startup enablers as defined in Republic Act 11337 (the Innovative Startup Act), generally majority Filipino-owned and registered for not more than five years.

How to apply

  1. Register on the DOST Startup Grant Fund portal.
  2. Submit the proposal with the technology description, market validation and budget.
  3. Technical and financial evaluation by DOST panels.
  4. Pitch or presentation.
  5. Memorandum of agreement and milestone-based release of funds.

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · The EU SME definition (Recommendation 2003/361)

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://startupgrantfund.dost.gov.ph/ · not human-checked

"The Startup Grant Fund supports Philippine startups and startup enablers under the Innovative Startup Act."

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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