Seed Grants Available: Submit Your Applications Today!

[March 2025]

Your vision deserves the right funding! Whether you’re a startup founder, NGOs, or entrepreneur, securing early-stage grants can make all the difference. Check out our updated list of seed funding opportunities and start building your future today!

Call for Solutions: Youth4Climate Funding Program to support Youth
Deadline: 26-May-25
Youth4Climate is accepting applications for its funding and learning opportunities, to fund new and existing youth-led solutions that are ready to implement or scale, and to support the further development of young people’s ideas and projects by providing relevant learning opportunities with the support of partners…[more]

Call for Applications: WISE Edtech Accelerator Program
Deadline: 20 April 2025
WISE is now inviting applications for its Edtech Accelerator Program…[more]

Funding available to protect Environment, improve Food Production and promote Public Health
Deadline: 15 June 2025
The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation is seeking applications to protect the environment, improve food production, and promote public health in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East…[more]

Nominations open for Iris Prize 2025
Deadline: 15-Apr-25
Are you aged 14-24? Do you have an idea or an established project protecting or restoring nature in your local community? If yes, then apply now for the Iris Prize…[more]

Digital Energy Challenge 2025
Deadline: 16 May 2025
Are you a Start-up looking to scale up your digital innovation project in the energy sector in Africa? If so, apply for the 2025 Digital Energy Challenge…[more]

Call for EOIs: International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (Africa)
Deadline: 2 May 2025
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) is inviting expressions of Interest for research projects led by geoscientists based in African institutions…[more]

ASEAN Social Enterprise Development Programme 4.0
Deadline: 31 March 2025
The ASEAN Social Enterprise Development Programme 4.0 (ASEAN SEDP 4.0) is officially open for applications! ASEAN Foundation is calling all social enterprises from the ten ASEAN countries to apply!..[more]

Transcultura launches its Call for Seed Capital Grants to Support Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean
Deadline: 7 April 2025
The Transcultura programme: Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, implemented by the UNESCO Regional Office in Havana and funded by the European Union, presents its Seed Capital Grant Scheme to support startups and small businesses in the Caribbean Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI)…[more]

Apply for ERIA Acceleration Program
Deadline: 15 April 2025
The ERIA acceleration program is designed to support early-stage (pre-seed and seed) startups developing innovative solutions in the energy and telecommunications sectors. If you have an idea with transformational potential, they can help you turn it into a reality…[more]

Apply Now: Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants (US and Canada)
Deadline: 24-Apr-25
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund is accepting applications for the Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants to promote growth of new connections between scholars, practitioners, educators, and/or communicators working to understand, spread the word about, and mitigate the impacts of climate change on human health…[more]

Call for Applications: 5G Innovation Hackathon (India)
Deadline: 15 April 2025
The Department of Telecommunications is seeking applications for its 5G Innovation Hackathon to bring together students, startups, and professionals to develop cutting-edge solutions using 5G labs in 100 institutes across India…[more]

City of Brantford Community Grant Program (Canada)
Deadline: 25-Apr-25
The City of Brantford has launched the Community Grant Program to shape the vitality and sense of belonging in the community…[more]

Blackpool Researching Together Seed Funding Scheme in the UK
Deadline: 31-Mar-25
The Blackpool Council is pleased to announce the Blackpool Researching Together Seed Funding Scheme…[more]

Apply for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (Hong Kong)
Deadline: 31 May 2025
The Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund (SIE Fund), as a catalyst for social innovation in Hong Kong, connects their community with different sectors, including businesses, NGOs, academics and philanthropies to create social impact through innovative solutions that address poverty and social exclusion…[more]

National Trust Preservation Funds (United States)
Deadline: 2-Jun-25
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting applications for its funding opportunity to encourage preservation at the local level by supporting on-going preservation work and by providing seed money for preservation projects…[more]

Apply Now: Social Innovation-Led Enterprise Project (Thailand)
Deadline: 15 April 2025
The Chulalongkorn University Social Innovation Hub is seeking applications for its Social Innovation-Led Enterprise Project to promote and support social innovation projects to address social challenges and strengthen the academic community of CU people to have a space to operate social innovation projects…[more]

Fund for Investigative Journalism: Seed Funding (US)
Deadline: 9 May 2025
The Fund for Investigative Journalism provides grants and other support for reporters to produce high-quality, unbiased, nonpartisan investigative stories that have an impact…[more]

Southwark Community Energy Fund Programme in the UK
Deadline: 6-Apr-25
The Southwark Community Energy Fund Programme gives grants to local schools, faith groups and community groups for green energy projects…[more]

Fisheries Startup Grand Challenge (India)
Deadline: 31 March 2025
Applications are now open for the Fisheries Startup Grand Challenge to identify and support innovations and startups working in the aquaculture and fisheries sector to accelerate the growth of this sector…[more]

RFPs: NCKRI National Seed Grant Program (US)
Deadline: 24 April 2025
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, on behalf of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI), invites proposals for 2026 Seed Grants in support of cave and karst research…[more]