Startup grant deadlines — the next 6 months
Every published deadline from October 2026 to March 2027, plus the windows programmes usually reopen in, labelled as a projection wherever it is one — never a date we invented.
October 2026
55 known deadlines
- Innovation Partnership Programme — 🇮🇪 Ireland · closes 2026-10-13 Closes tomorrow
- Vinnova SME collaboration projects Sweden-Germany — 🇸🇪 Sweden · closes 2026-10-13 Closes tomorrow
- Farming Innovation Programme — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-10-14 Closes in 2 days
- Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-10-14 Closes in 2 days
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-10-14 Closes in 2 days
- NASA SBIR Ignite — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- BIRAC Small Business Innovation Research Initiative (SBIRI) — 🇮🇳 India · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Biomedicine — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Bioeconomy — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Electronics and autonomous driving; High Performance Computing — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Energy efficiency, climate protection and climate adaptation — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Information and communication technologies — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Materials research — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Medical technology — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Photonics and quantum technologies — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Resources and circular economy — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- KMU-innovativ: Future of value creation — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- Ideen!Reich (Styria innovation funding) — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- Innobooster — 🇩🇰 Denmark · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- Business development support for energy and climate innovations — 🇸🇪 Sweden · closes 2026-10-15 Closes in 3 days
- Invest NI Innovation Vouchers — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-10-16 Closes in 4 days
- Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator — 🌐 Global · closes 2026-10-16 Closes in 4 days
- SPRIND Challenges — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-10-16 Closes in 4 days
- SME Labour-Saving Investment Subsidy — 🇯🇵 Japan · closes 2026-10-16 Closes in 4 days
- Station F Fighters Program — 🇫🇷 France · closes 2026-10-18 Closes in 6 days
- InnovateMass (MassCEC) — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-20 Closes in 8 days
- AFWERX SBIR/STTR (U.S. Air Force) — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-21 Closes in 9 days
- U.S. Army SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-21 Closes in 9 days
- DARPA SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-21 Closes in 9 days
- Department of War SBIR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-21 Closes in 9 days
- U.S. Navy SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-21 Closes in 9 days
- Office of the Secretary of War SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-21 Closes in 9 days
- High Growth Spinout Programme (HGSP) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-10-21 Closes in 9 days
- Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-10-22 Closes in 10 days
- ICURe Explore (Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-10-22 Closes in 10 days
- Chips Joint Undertaking (formerly KDT JU) — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-10-27
- EU Chips Act - Chips Joint Undertaking calls for proposals — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-10-27
- SIGMA Programme — 🇨🇿 Czechia · closes 2026-10-27
- European Innovation Council Pathfinder Challenges — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-10-28
- European Innovation Council STEP Scale Up Defence — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-10-28
- European Innovation Council Pathfinder — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-10-28
- Grants for Eurogrants — 🇵🇱 Poland · closes 2026-10-28
- Microenterprise modernisation grants, North-East Regional Programme (call 2) — 🇷🇴 Romania · closes 2026-10-28
- UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) innovation competitions — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-10-29
- EIT Culture & Creativity start-up support — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-10-30
- ESA Space Solutions Kick-start Activity — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-10-30
- Seed Capital Scheme — 🇳🇱 Netherlands · closes 2026-10-30
- IT Introduction Subsidy (Digitalisation and AI Adoption Subsidy) — 🇯🇵 Japan · closes 2026-10-30
- New Business Expansion / Manufacturing, Commerce and Service Subsidy — 🇯🇵 Japan · closes 2026-10-30
- New Business Entry / Manufacturing, Commerce and Services Subsidy (merged successor to the Monozukuri and New Business Entry subsidies) — 🇯🇵 Japan · closes 2026-10-30
- General Support Programme (GSP) — 🇭🇰 Hong Kong · closes 2026-10-30
- Business START — 🇲🇹 Malta · closes 2026-10-30
- Start-up Finance — 🇲🇹 Malta · closes 2026-10-30
- Amber Grant (WomensNet) — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-10-31
- Canton of Basel-Stadt rent subsidy for tech start-ups — 🇨🇭 Switzerland · closes 2026-10-31
November 2026
29 known deadlines
- Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship — 🌐 Global · closes 2026-11-01
- Breakthrough Energy Fellows — 🌐 Global · closes 2026-11-02
- Y Combinator — 🌐 Global · closes 2026-11-02
- FFG Innovation Voucher with own contribution — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-11-02
- Startup Wise Guys — 🇪🇪 Estonia · closes 2026-11-02
- 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
- EPA SBIR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-11-08
- Japan Green Innovation Fund — 🇯🇵 Japan · closes 2026-11-10
- Anzisha Prize — 🇿🇦 South Africa · closes 2026-11-10
- NCBiotech Small Business Research Loan (SRL) — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-11-11
- Interregional Innovation Investments Instrument (I3) — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-11-12
- ARENA Solar Sunshot programme — 🇦🇺 Australia · closes 2026-11-12
- SXSW Pitch — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-11-13
- EIT Urban Mobility Financial Support to Startups — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-11-16
- EU Defence Innovation Scheme under the European Defence Fund — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-11-16
- ACCIÓ Innovation Vouchers — 🇪🇸 Spain · closes 2026-11-16
- Tory Burch Foundation Fellows Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-11-17
- Research Ireland Industry RD&I Fellowship — 🇮🇪 Ireland · closes 2026-11-19
- CARB-X (Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) — 🌐 Global · closes 2026-11-23
- UnLtd Social Entrepreneur Awards — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-11-30
- Creative Europe MEDIA strand — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-11-30
- Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 🌐 Global · closes 2026-11-30
- BIRAC Promoting Academic Research Conversion to Enterprise (PACE) — 🇮🇳 India · closes 2026-11-30
- Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 🇫🇷 France · closes 2026-11-30
- >>venture>> Swiss start-up competition — 🇨🇭 Switzerland · closes 2026-11-30
- Innovator Laboratory – free mentoring for idea owners — 🇵🇱 Poland · closes 2026-11-30
- Applications (OP TAK) — 🇨🇿 Czechia · closes 2026-11-30
9 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 November
- DASA Open Call for Innovation — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around November
- The Earthshot Prize — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around November
- Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellowships — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around November
- Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards — 🌐 Global · usually opens around November
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship — 🌐 Global · usually opens around November
- MassChallenge Switzerland Early-Stage Accelerator — 🇨🇭 Switzerland · usually opens around November
- 4YFN Awards (Mobile World Congress) — 🇪🇸 Spain · usually opens around November
- Start-Up Chile Build — 🇨🇱 Chile · usually opens around November
December 2026
30 known deadlines
- Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ) Tax Credit — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-12-01
- EU Prize for Women Innovators — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-12-01
- Innowwide (Eureka market feasibility vouchers) — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-12-01
- European Prize for Women Innovators, powered by EIC & EIT — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2026-12-01
- Eureka Innowwide call 5 (Vinnova) — 🇸🇪 Sweden · closes 2026-12-01
- Innovate UK Investor Partnerships — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · 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
- Conception X (PhD deep tech venture programme) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-12-06
- Verizon Small Business Digital Ready National Grant — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2026-12-07
- Start-up Platforms component IIb – start-up growth grant (Eastern Poland) — 🇵🇱 Poland · closes 2026-12-10
- Thuringian Start-up Premium — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2026-12-15
- Subsidy Programme for Sustaining Small Businesses — 🇯🇵 Japan · closes 2026-12-15
- Grant for cybersecurity innovation and development — 🇪🇪 Estonia · closes 2026-12-15
- UK-Singapore Collaborative R&D 2026 — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2026-12-16
- DEI+ Energy and Climate Innovation Demonstration — 🇳🇱 Netherlands · closes 2026-12-17
- Skills development grant for southern SMEs — 🇮🇹 Italy · closes 2026-12-21
- COMPETE 2030 R&D demonstrators (individual or co-promotion) — 🇵🇹 Portugal · closes 2026-12-29
- Regionalised i-Demo Innovation Projects — 🇫🇷 France · closes 2026-12-31
- DHI Subsidy Scheme (Demonstration, Feasibility, Investment Preparation) — 🇳🇱 Netherlands · closes 2026-12-31
- Early Phase Financing — 🇳🇱 Netherlands · closes 2026-12-31
- FFG Frontrunner — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-12-31
- Vienna Business Agency – Creative industries grant — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-12-31
- Vienna Business Agency – Digitalisation grant — 🇦🇹 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
- Vienna Business Agency – Internationalisation grant — 🇦🇹 Austria · closes 2026-12-31
- Tax deduction for investment in innovative businesses — 🇨🇾 Cyprus · closes 2026-12-31
3 usually open around this month (projected from the funder's own pattern — not a confirmed date)
- 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
31 known deadlines
- COMPETE 2030 STEP Productive Innovation – Clean Energy technologies — 🇵🇹 Portugal · closes 2027-01-04
- COMPETE 2030 STEP Productive Innovation – Digital, deep tech and Biotechnology — 🇵🇹 Portugal · closes 2027-01-04
- COMPETE 2030 STEP Business R&D&I – Digital, deep tech and Biotechnology — 🇵🇹 Portugal · closes 2027-01-04
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Cancer Institute SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Eye Institute SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute on Aging SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute on Drug Abuse SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- NIH SBIR/STTR Program (Omnibus / Parent solicitation) — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of Mental Health SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Institute of Nursing Research SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- National Library of Medicine SBIR/STTR Program — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-01-05
- Start?Zuschuss! Bavaria — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2027-01-10
- Innovative Startups 2026 (Vinnova) — 🇸🇪 Sweden · closes 2027-01-12
- Creative Europe MEDIA Innovative Tools and Business Models — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2027-01-13
- Digital Europe Programme — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2027-01-14
- Accelerate Cambridge (Cambridge Judge Business School Entrepreneurship Centre) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · closes 2027-01-15
- French video game support fund (FAJV) — 🇫🇷 France · closes 2027-01-18
32 usually open around this month (projected from the funder's own pattern — not a confirmed date)
- Georgia Angel Investor Tax Credit — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around January
- 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
- Innovate UK Smart Grants — 🇬🇧 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
- Clean Hydrogen Joint Undertaking — 🇪🇺 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
- Airbus BizLab — 🇫🇷 France · 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
- IVACE+i Innovation aid for SMEs — 🇪🇸 Spain · 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
- Danish Film Institute games scheme — 🇩🇰 Denmark · usually opens around January
- Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme — 🇳🇬 Nigeria · usually opens around January
February 2027
4 known deadlines
- Creative Europe MEDIA video games and immersive content development support — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2027-02-01
- Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund (DTIF) — 🇮🇪 Ireland · closes 2027-02-03
- The Liveability Challenge (Temasek Foundation) — 🇸🇬 Singapore · closes 2027-02-12
- Hult Prize — 🌐 Global · closes 2027-02-28
22 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
- Rural Business Development Grant (RBDG) — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around February
- VentureWell E-Team Program — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around February
- BBSRC Follow-on Fund — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · 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
- JST A-STEP (Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Programme) — 🇯🇵 Japan · usually opens around February
- Global Startup Academy — 🇰🇷 South Korea · usually opens around February
- Industrial PhD (private sector) — 🇩🇰 Denmark · 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
- Prototron — 🇪🇪 Estonia · 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
March 2027
5 known deadlines
- ESA Business Incubation Centre Norway — 🇳🇴 Norway · closes 2027-03-01
- Eurostars (Eureka / European Partnership on Innovative SMEs) — 🇪🇺 European Union · closes 2027-03-04
- Eurostars (Dutch Contribution) — 🇳🇱 Netherlands · closes 2027-03-04
- GO-Bio next – Phase 1 — 🇩🇪 Germany · closes 2027-03-15
- Pennsylvania Small Business Advantage Grant — 🇺🇸 United States · closes 2027-03-19
23 usually open around this month (projected from the funder's own pattern — not a confirmed date)
- Arizona Innovation Challenge (AIC) — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around March
- Grow-NY food and agriculture business competition — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around March
- Red Backpack Fund — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around March
- Sephora Accelerate — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around March
- TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around March
- Walmart Open Call for US Manufactured Products — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around March
- Match on Main (Michigan) — 🇺🇸 United States · usually opens around March
- Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF) — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around March
- Propel Programme — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around March
- James Dyson Award — 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · usually opens around March
- Horizon Europe European Innovation Ecosystems, CONNECT strand — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around March
- EIT Health Catapult — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around March
- EIT Manufacturing BoostUp! competition — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around March
- Innovative Health Initiative calls — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around March
- Interreg Europe (interregional cooperation, business support) — 🇪🇺 European Union · usually opens around March
- Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Awards — 🌐 Global · usually opens around March
- Creative Destruction Lab — 🇨🇦 Canada · usually opens around March
- Start!Klar plus (Styria) — 🇦🇹 Austria · usually opens around March
- Post-TIPS — 🇰🇷 South Korea · usually opens around March
- Zayed Sustainability Prize — 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · usually opens around March
- Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Programme — 🇩🇰 Denmark · usually opens around March
- Cyberport Incubation Programme — 🇭🇰 Hong Kong · usually opens around March
- 1000 Digital Startups National Movement — 🇮🇩 Indonesia · usually opens around March