Who funds them, what they fund and how to apply.
Anthropic launched Claude for Startups, offering API credits, early model access, and priority support to early-stage founders integrating Claude, plus community events, hackathons, and direct technical support. Applications are rolling with no fixed deadline. Duplicate signal: 9991 (claude.com/programs/startups).
EIC Accelerator supports high-risk, market-creating innovations from startups and SMEs through grants below EUR 2.5 million, optional equity investments of EUR 1-10 million, and business acceleration support. Short proposals are accepted continuously and full proposals use scheduled 2026 batching dates on 7 Jan, 4 Mar, 6 May, 8 Jul, 2 Sep, and 4 Nov.
Google for Startups Cloud Program's AI tier offers eligible venture-backed AI startups up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits over two years, plus technical support and access to Google's AI ecosystem. The first-party page currently accepts applications.
A regranting program that gives independent budgets ($100k+) to expert regrantors in AI safety, who recommend fast, small grants ($5k-$50k) to seed early-stage projects; applicants can also post projects publicly on the Manifund platform for donors and regrantors to fund. Regrants can go to registered charities and individuals, with for-profits eligible pending due diligence.
Stripe Climate lets businesses of any size fund frontier carbon removal by directing a share of revenue to Stripe's portfolio of carbon-removal purchases.
DARPA and NSF developed AI Forge to fund and manage university-led research in AI interpretability, AI control, and adversarial robustness. Its initial university-capabilities request for information closed June 22, 2026 after receiving nearly 130 responses. No public funding call has opened since that RFI.
Open call for external researchers in applied causal inference, labor economics, and productivity to run empirical studies on AI's economic impact via structured collaborations with OpenAI's Economic Research division; research support and data access, no fixed grant figure published.
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