For Researchers
The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research ASPIRE Awards
- Funding: ASPIRE I Awards ($250K), ASPIRE II Awards ($750K)
- Target audience: Principal Investigators with innovative ideas that have the potential to solve high-impact problems in cancer research,
- Applications deadline: Ongoing
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Cornell Research & Innovation
- Several Cornell entities have funding opportunities for which individuals at Cornell can apply. The list provides summaries of many of these opportunities. Details may be found by following the links and the program contacts can provide more information.
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Jeff Lawrence Innovation Fund Manufacturing Grants
- Help companies achieve success from early stage, proof of concept, through maturity. The partnership created by the not-for-profit organization and the industry partner serves as a pathway to technology transfer, adoption and implementation of new manufacturing processes, as well as the creation of enhanced products and services.
- Award: Manufacturing Grants between $15,000.00 to $65,000.00
- Target audience: NY-non for profit (Cornell lab for example)
- Deadline: January 13, 2024
- Open Application: April 15, 2025
- Deadline: May 14, 2025
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For Startups
America’s Seed Fund SBIR/STTR
- Funding: Up to $2 Million in seed funding
- Target audience: Startups developing deep technologies
- Applications deadline: Ongoing
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America’s Seed Fund Project Pitches
- Funding: Up to $2 Million in seed funding
- Target audience: Small businesses and startups looking for research and development funding to create new products, services, or other scalable solutions
- Application deadline: Ongoing
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D-Prize
- Funding: $20K to start new organizations fighting poverty in low-income countries
- Topic: Social Entrepreneurship
- Target audience: NGO and early-stage ventures worldwide
- Application deadline: Ongoing
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BrightEdge Entrepreneurs
- Funding: $100K via SAFE in every company that is represented in the program
- Topic: Therapeutic, diagnostic, medical device, and digital health innovations
- Target audience: Postdoctoral scientists and/or early career researchers
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NIDA Small Business Transition Grant for New Entrepreneurs
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Small business transition grant aims to foster the advancement and accelerate the growth of early-career scientists transitioning to entrepreneurship by simultaneously supporting their entrepreneurial development and the conduct of research and development under their direction.
- Funding: Normally may not exceed $306,872 for Phase I, and $2,045,816 for Phase II
- Target audience: Startups at all stages of biomedical product development (Ideation, Feasibility, and Product Development)
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Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition (LKYGBPC)
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Competition organized by Singapore Management University with no requirement to relocated in Singapore.
- Award: Several cash prizes
- Target audience: Global startups in carbon Tech, climate Tech, energy transitions, food & land use, green buildings & constructions, homeland security, public health, sustainable materials & circularity, transport & logistics, urban mobility solutions, water solutions, emerging tech
- Deadline: April 30, 2025
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