Closing in the next 60 days

Only dated deadlines appear here. Rolling, annual and twice-yearly schemes are real, and several of them are among the largest cheques available, but they cannot be put on a calendar. BIRAC BIG opens on 1 January and 1 July and would be invisible on this page for ten months of the year while being entirely open to apply to. Use the full catalog for those.

India 13

• 20 Oct · 3 days left GRSE Accelerated Innovation Nurturing Scheme (GAINS 2026) grant
  Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (Ministry of Defence) · Up to Rs 5 lakh each for a Stage II project report, then
• 21 Oct · 4 days left BIRAC-PATH Patent Facilitation grant
  Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), DBT · Patent filing support (Indian provisional and complete,
• 23 Oct · 6 days left Government First Initiative (Karnataka) grant
  Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS), Department of Elec · Direct work order of up to Rs 25 lakh for a paid pilot w
• 25 Oct · 8 days left North East Seva First Innovation Challenge 2026 (NESFIC) competition
  Assam Innovation and Startup Foundation, Government of Assam · Up to Rs 10 lakh idea-stage grant, up to Rs 20 lakh MVP
• 31 Oct · 14 days left iCreate Seed Grant, Gujarat accelerator
  iCreate, International Centre for Innovation and Technology · ₹25 Lakhs
• 31 Oct · 14 days left SAKSHAM 3.0 Assistive Technology Accelerator accelerator
  Startup Accelerator Chamber of Commerce (SACC), on the Startup India p · Seed grants for selected cohort startups (amount not pub
• 31 Oct · 14 days left BIRAC E-YUVA (Early Entrepreneurship for Young Innovators) grant
  BIRAC (Department of Biotechnology) · Fellowship and annual research grant; amounts in the cal
• 13 Nov · 27 days left ELEVATE NxT (Deep-Tech Grant) grant
  Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS), Government of Karn · Up to Rs 1 crore, milestone-based
• 13 Nov · 27 days left ELEVATE Minorities 2026 (Karnataka) grant
  Department of Electronics, IT, Bt and S&T, Government of Karnataka · Up to Rs 50 lakh one-time grant-in-aid, plus subsidised
• 30 Nov · 44 days left TANFUND, Tamil Nadu grant
  Tamil Nadu Startup and Innovation Mission (StartupTN) · ₹50 Lakhs
• 30 Nov · 44 days left ICMR First in the World Challenge 2026 grant
  Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) · Up to Rs 1 crore (proof of concept), up to Rs 4 crore (p
• 30 Nov · 44 days left Gujarat Innovation Fund grant
  Gujarat State Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP) · ₹50 Lakhs
• 15 Dec · 59 days left Goa Startup Grant grant
  Goa Startup Mission · ₹15 Lakhs

The Gulf 4

• 31 Oct · 14 days left WISE EdTech Accelerator 2026-27 accelerator
  WISE, Qatar Foundation · Coaching, investor access and WISE Summit exposure; no c
• 15 Nov · 29 days left Fujairah Creative City Startup Programme accelerator
  Fujairah Creative City · AED 75,000
• 30 Nov · 44 days left Riyadh Garage Accelerator accelerator
  Riyadh Garage · USD 100,000
• 1 Dec · 45 days left KAUST Innovation Ventures (KIV) Accelerator accelerator
  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · USD 200,000

Open to founders anywhere 23

• 31 Oct · 14 days left Foresight Institute AI for Science and Safety Nodes Grants grant
  Foresight Institute · Typically $30,000 to $100,000 per grant, plus compute an
• 31 Oct · 14 days left Yamaha TRANSPOSE Innovation Challenge 2026 credits
  Yamaha Corporation · Grand Prix up to JPY 5 million in PoC funding; Yamaha Aw
• 31 Oct · 14 days left Medical Devices Industry Growth Centre, Innovation Grant grant
  Medical Devices Industry Growth Centre (MDIGC) · AUD 300,000 to AUD 1,200,000
• 31 Oct · 14 days left HAMAG‑BICRO, Innovation Funding (Croatia) grant
  Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovation and Investments (HAMAG‑BICRO) · HRK 200,000‑2,000,000
• 1 Nov · 15 days left Eurostars 2026, EUREKA Network grant
  Eurostars (EUREKA) · €100,000 to €500,000
• 2 Nov · 16 days left ARC Prize 2026 competition
  ARC Prize Foundation · $2,000,000 across three tracks, including a $700,000 gra
• 2 Nov · 16 days left Supernova Challenge (Expand North Star) competition
  Expand North Star / DWTC, Dubai · $200,000 equity-free
• 2 Nov · 16 days left AI GENESIS 2026
  lablab.ai (/function1 AI Conference, Dubai) · Partner-sponsored prize pool
• 9 Nov · 23 days left Telkomsel NextDev 12 Impact Incubator credits
  Telkomsel · Incubation, mentoring and business collaboration with Te
• 11 Nov · 25 days left Interledger Foundation Local Impact Mini-Grants grant
  Interledger Foundation · $500 to $3,000
• 15 Nov · 29 days left Vinnova Innovation Grants, Startup & Scale‑up grant
  Vinnova · SEK 500,000‑2,000,000
• 15 Nov · 29 days left Vinnova, Innovation Grants grant
  Vinnova · SEK 100,000 to 2,000,000
• 15 Nov · 29 days left Ontario Centres of Excellence, Market Readiness Program grant
  Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) · Up to CAD 150,000 per project
• 15 Nov · 29 days left Bulgarian SME Agency, Startup Grants grant
  Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency · BGN 50,000‑400,000
• 16 Nov · 30 days left Taipei City Global Pass Subsidy grant
  Taipei City Government, Department of Economic Development · Reimbursement of overseas co-working, meeting and lab sp
• 17 Nov · 31 days left Nexa Lighthouse: Climate and Health Innovation, Asia and the Pacific
  Grand Challenges Canada and AVPN · Approximately $250,000 to $2,000,000 USD per innovation
• 20 Nov · 34 days left Imagine H2O Accelerator and Imagine H2O Asia (2027 cohort) accelerator
  Imagine H2O · Accelerator taking no equity, with mentoring, investor a
• 3 Dec · 47 days left Egyptian-Spanish Joint Technological Co-operation Program (ESIP), Call 11 grant
  Science, Technology and Innovation Funding Authority (STDF), Egypt · Joint industrial R&D project funding (amount not publish
• 5 Dec · 49 days left Welsh Government Innovate Wales Programme grant
  Welsh Government · £25,000 to £300,000
• 7 Dec · 51 days left Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Grant credits
  Verizon (with LISC) · $10,000 grant
• 11 Dec · 55 days left SVC Seoul Global Membership 2026 (KISED) grant
  Korea Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurship Development (KISED) · Office seat and meeting rooms in Seoul, a consulting vou
• 15 Dec · 59 days left Poland, NCBR Fast‑Track Programme for Start‑ups grant
  National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) · PLN 200,000‑1,500,000
• 15 Dec · 59 days left CSIRO Data61, Deep Tech Grant grant
  CSIRO Data61 · AUD 100,000 to AUD 250,000

Before you plan around a date

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Common questions

How many startup grants are closing in the next 60 days?

40 programmes in the Incubateer catalog carry a dated deadline inside the next 60 days, 3 of them within a week. The page is regenerated weekly from the catalog rather than written once, so the list is current rather than a snapshot of whenever it was published.

Why are rolling and annual schemes not listed here?

Only programmes with a dated deadline appear. Rolling, annual and twice-yearly schemes are real and are in the catalog, but they cannot be placed on a calendar, and a page called Open Now that lists things with no date is not answering the question it was asked. Browse the full catalog for those.

Is this list checked?

Apply links across the catalog are re-checked on a weekly sweep and programmes whose link has died are removed rather than left on the page. Deadlines change faster than any directory, so confirm the date on the programme portal before you plan around it.