Grants and fellowships
5 programmes. Of these, 3 say they take no equity, and 1 has applications open.
Free, equity-free nine-month part-time fellowship that helps PhD researchers at UK and European universities test the founder path, mostly online with three in-person events starting in London.
Funding not published · equity-free
The US defence department's SBIR and STTR programmes for US small businesses, run through annual Broad Agency Announcements and Commercial Solutions Openings with topics released monthly.
Funding not published · equity-free
DST pre-incubation scheme that gives individual innovators and early startups a prototyping grant of up to ₹20 lakh, or up to ₹40 lakh for deeptech, through host incubators known as PRAYAS Centres.
Funding not published · equity not published
A 12-month fellowship for UK engineering spinouts and startups, including university researchers spinning out. Fellows get a grant of up to GBP 75,000 with coaching and mentoring, and give up no equity.
Funding not published · equity-free
MeitY scheme delivered through a network of incubators that funds IT-based startups: up to ₹4 lakh from idea to proof of concept, up to ₹7 lakh for prototypes and up to ₹40 lakh for product development and market outreach.
Funding not published · equity not published
We list 5 programmes: Conception X Venture Scientist 100, DoD SBIR/STTR, NIDHI-PRAYAS 2.0 (Promotion and Acceleration of Young and Aspiring Innovators and Startups), Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowships and TIDE 2.0 - Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs. Each listing links to the programme's own pages and shows the day we last verified it.
3 of the 5 say they take no equity: Conception X Venture Scientist 100, DoD SBIR/STTR and Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowships. 2 do not publish their equity terms.
Applications are open for Conception X Venture Scientist 100 (closes 6 December 2026). The deadlines page lists every date we track.
Send us your dates and terms and we will publish them with a link to your own pages.