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Everything that closes in the next 14 days. 117 opportunities.
Thursday 22 October
VAF Innovatieatelier 2026 for storytellers moving into games and XR
The Flemish Audiovisual Fund gives up to six storytellers €7,500 and coaching to develop a first game or XR project. Apply by 22 October 2026 at noon.
Northern Ireland Screen London Games Festival 2027 cohort
Northern Ireland Screen will take up to 6 games companies to London Games Festival 2027 and cover flights and hotels. Expressions of interest close 22 October 2026.
Gray Swan Arena: Indirect Prompt Injection Black challenge 2026
Gray Swan's Indirect Prompt Injection Black challenge pays from a $300,000 prize pool for successful attacks on AI agents. Wave 1 runs until 22 October 2026.
Friday 23 October
Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon 2026
Amazon offers $138,000 in cash prizes for demo ready apps built for Fire TV, Alexa+, Bee and Ring. Open worldwide, submissions close October 23, 2026.
QHack 2026: Quantum Coding Championship
Xanadu's QHack 2026 pays a $67,000 cash pool for quantum coding challenges from October 16 to 23. Register now at qhack.ai.
ESA BIC Poland: 23 October 2026 open call deadline
ESA BIC Poland gives space startups an incentive of up to €50,000 plus expert support. Apply by 23 October 2026.
Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon 2026
Airwallex offers $100,000 in prizes and credits for agents built on its APIs. Applications close 23 October 2026.
Neighborhood Hacks 2026, online hackathon for high school students
Week long online hackathon for high school students who build tools for their own community. Prizes worth $57,866, mostly credits. Closes 23 October 2026.
Sunday 25 October
GoBeyond 2026 call for startups
GoBeyond 2026 gives a €50,000 equity free grant to one startup incorporated in Italy. Apply by October 25, 2026.
IEEE ClimateChain Global Hackathon 2026
Online IEEE hackathon for blockchain and AI tools on climate problems. $3,000 in cash prizes, submissions October 5 to 25, 2026.
OpenStreetMap Community Microgrants 2026
OpenStreetMap offers grants of up to €500 for local community activities. Apply by 25 October 2026.
AT Jam Dole 2026
AT Jam Dole pays $750 per team member for a two week AT Protocol game prototype. Proposals close on 25 October 2026.
Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon 2026
Ten day online hackathon from Meta with a $1,000,000 cash prize pool for indie developers and startups. Apply by 25 October 2026.
Junction 2026 hackathon in Espoo with a hardware lab
Junction 2026 is a free 48 hour hackathon in Espoo, Finland, on 13 to 15 November with €100,000 in prizes. Apply by 25 October 2026.
Web3 for Social Good Hackathon 2026 at SMU Singapore
Web3 for Social Good Hackathon 2026 at SMU Singapore has a USD 20,000 prize pool. Submit an idea or a prototype on DoraHacks by 25 October 2026.
eScience Center Lorentz Competition 2026: digital sovereignty in research
The eScience Center Lorentz Competition 2026 gives the winning team a 5 day workshop in Leiden and about 400 hours of research software engineering support. Expressions of interest are due 25 October 2026.
Monday 26 October
OpenCV AI Competition 2026, powered by AWS
The OpenCV AI Competition 2026, sponsored by AWS, pays $20,250 in prizes and compute grants for computer vision projects. Entries close on October 26, 2026.
Build With AI: Basics
Build With AI: Basics pays a $2,500 prize pool for a new app built with AI skills. Submissions close on 26 October 2026.
4YFN27 Awards: startup competition at MWC Barcelona 2027
The 4YFN27 Awards give the winning digital startup €20,000 at MWC Barcelona in March 2027. Applications close 26 October 2026.
ESA BIC Hessen: 26 October 2026 application deadline
ESA BIC Hessen in Darmstadt offers space startups 60,000 euro in funding plus ESA technical support. The next application deadline is 26 October 2026.
Brains Fellowship 2027 by Speculative Technologies
Brains is a free, four month, part time remote fellowship that helps scientists design and launch new research programs. Apply by 26 October 2026.
Tuesday 27 October
Hackaday Retrocomputing Contest 2026
Hackaday and DigiKey give a $150 gift certificate to each of three favorite retrocomputing projects. Entries close on October 27, 2026.
FFF Bayern games funding: October 27, 2026 deadline
FFF Bayern funds game concepts, prototypes and production for studios in Bavaria, with grants up to €200,000 and loans up to €500,000. Applications close October 27, 2026.
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg games funding: October 27, 2026 deadline
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg lends game studios up to €300,000 for prototypes and up to €600,000 for production. The next deadline is October 27, 2026.
GitLab Life After Code Hackathon 2026
An online GitLab hackathon for AI agents that automate code review, security, testing and deployment, with $45,000 in cash prizes. Submit by 27 October 2026.
ESA BIC Latvia: 27 October 2026 deadline
ESA BIC Latvia offers €80,000 for space startups in Latvia, plus incubation and coaching. Apply by 27 October 2026.
HERIFORGE 2nd Open Call 2026
HERIFORGE offers up to €50,000 for immersive cultural heritage projects. Up to six projects. Apply by 27 October 2026 at 17:00 CET.
ETH AI Center Doctoral Fellowship 2027
The ETH AI Center in Zurich offers 8 to 12 paid doctoral fellowships in AI, with a salary from CHF 73,100 a year. Apply by 27 October 2026.
ETH AI Center Postdoctoral Fellowship 2027
ETH AI Center postdoctoral fellowships in Zurich pay CHF 92,500 in year one and CHF 97,200 in year two for AI research. Apply by 27 October 2026.
Wednesday 28 October
AWS Communication Developer Services Agentic AI Partner Hackathon 2026
AWS pays a $40,000 prize pool for agentic AI built on its communication services. Open to AWS Partners until October 28, 2026.
Anthropic Conceptual Reasoning Fellowship 2027
Anthropic pays $100,000 to $167,000 for a four month Conceptual Reasoning Fellowship. Apply by 28 October 2026.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge 2026: DeepRAP trustworthy cognitive AI
EIC Pathfinder grants of €500,000 to €4 million for research on AI that can reason, abstract and plan. Proposals close 28 October 2026.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge 2026: Advanced Materials for Miniaturised Energy Harvesting Systems
EIC Pathfinder grants of €500,000 to €4 million to build tiny energy harvesting devices from new materials. Proposals close 28 October 2026.
Anthropic STEM Fellowship 2027
Anthropic pays $100,000 to $167,000 for a four month STEM Fellowship for PhD scientists and engineers. Apply by 28 October 2026.
Thursday 29 October
CoSTAR Satellite Labs 2026
AHRC offers UK research organisations up to £2 million to host a CoSTAR Satellite Lab. Apply by 29 October 2026.
LYVA Labs Incubator 2027
LYVA Labs offers Liverpool City Region startups up to £25,000 on day one of a six month incubator. Applications close 29 October 2026 at 5 p.m.
TUM Blockchain & AI Hackathon 2026 in Munich
In person hackathon in Munich on 30 and 31 October 2026 for blockchain and AI builders, with €10,000 in prizes. Apply on Devfolio by 29 October.
Spain's grants for the internationalisation of video games, podcasts and digital culture 2026
Spain's Ministry of Culture offers up to €100,000 per project to Spanish nonprofits that take the video game sector to international markets. Apply by 29 October 2026.
CoSTAR Showcase Labs 2026
AHRC offers up to £4 million to UK research organisations to build a CoSTAR Showcase Lab for film, TV, games and performance. Apply by 29 October 2026.
Friday 30 October
BSSw Fellowship Program 2027
Up to $25,000 for a person who improves scientific software through a workshop, tutorial or community project. Applicants need a U.S. institution. Deadline October 30, 2026.
Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon
Nebius and NVIDIA offer $50,000 in cash for working AI systems built on Nebius with NVIDIA open models. Submissions close October 30, 2026.
Activate Fellowship US Cohort 2027
Activate pays a $100,000 yearly stipend, $100,000 in R&D support and travel funds for two years, with no equity, to first time US hard tech founders. Applications close October 30, 2026.
Innovation Crossroads Cohort 2027
A two year hard tech fellowship at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with a $115,000 yearly stipend and lab access. Applications close on October 30, 2026.
West Gate Cohort 6
West Gate Cohort 6 pays a $115,000 yearly stipend for up to two years. Apply by October 30, 2026.
ESA BIC Andalusia: October 2026 cutoff
ESA BIC Andalusia offers space startups up to €60,000 in equity free funding and incubation in Seville. The next cutoff is October 30, 2026.
HackFW MADE Challenge 2026
HackFW MADE Challenge is a North Texas hackathon on AI, hardware and software for manufacturing, with $1,900 in prizes. Submissions close on 30 October 2026.
Chain Reaction Innovations Cohort 2027
Chain Reaction Innovations at Argonne pays technical founders $115k a year for two years to build energy and science startups. Apply by 30 October 2026.
Northwestern Mutual Accelerator 2027, powered by gener8tor
Northwestern Mutual Accelerator 2027 invests $100,000 in each of five startups. At least one founder must be in the US. Apply by 30 October 2026.
FLITE grants open until 30 October 2026
FLITE gives grants and live airport tests to companies building air travel technology. Applications close on 30 October 2026.
huntr Blind Trust AI hacking challenge 2026
huntr pays $15,000 in prizes to people who trick AI assistants into leaking secrets in its Blind Trust challenge. It ends October 30, 2026.
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program 2027 to 2028
The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship gives up to $60,000 per award to PhD students working on accelerated computing. Apply by 30 October 2026.
Hertz Fellowship 2027
The Hertz Fellowship gives US PhD students in science, maths and engineering up to five years of funding worth up to $250,000. Apply by 30 October 2026.
Qloo Agentic Hackathon 2026
An online hackathon for apps that put the Qloo API into AI agents, with $25,000 in prizes. Submit by 30 October 2026.
EuroHPC AI for Science and Collaborative EU Projects Access: 30 October 2026 cut off
EuroHPC gives researchers in Europe six months of supercomputer time for science projects that use AI. The next cut off is 30 October 2026, then 11 December.
DigiKey & Würth Elektronik Proteus-IV Eval Board Design Contest 2026
Open theme hardware contest around the Proteus-IV Bluetooth LE 6.0 module. The top 50 ideas get a free board and the winner picks a prize up to $2,500. Ideas are due 30 October 2026.
NEURA Research Programme 2026/2027: Physical AI call for proposals
Up to €500k per project for universities, research institutes and startups in the EU, UK or Switzerland that bring Physical AI robot skills to a real pilot. Proposals close 30 October 2026.
University of Chicago AI in the Workplace Fellowship, Spring 2027
University of Chicago fellowship with up to $25,000 for faculty and PhD students studying how AI changes work. Apply by October 30, 2026.
Saturday 31 October
Corrigibility Research Fund: round 2 with an October 31 deadline
The Corrigibility Research Fund pays $5,000 to $35,000 grants for research on AI systems that stay correctable. Round 2 closes October 31, 2026.
Foresight Institute AI for Science and Safety Nodes: request for proposals 2026
Foresight Institute offers grants of $30,000 to $100,000, compute and office space for open AI for science and safety projects. Proposals are due October 31, 2026.
Alpha-Omega open source security grants: October 2026 round
Alpha-Omega funds open source projects with typically $50,000 to $100,000 for security work. The next intake form is open from October 1 to October 31, 2026.
MATS Residency Winter 2027: paid AI safety research
The MATS Residency pays $155,000 to $285,000 a year for AI safety research in London, Berkeley or Washington DC. Applications close 31 October 2026.
Galuxium Nexus V2 hackathon
Galuxium Nexus V2 is an online hackathon for building paid software products, with $14,944 in prizes and a submission deadline of October 31, 2026.
ARIA Scaling Trust grants
ARIA Scaling Trust offers grants from £100,000 to £3,000,000 for open source agent security tools. Proposals for this cycle are due 31 October 2026.
Constructor Start accelerator 2026
Constructor Start is a free 10 week online accelerator. Demo day winners may get up to USD 300,000 for equity. Apply by 31 October 2026.
WISE EdTech Accelerator 2026
The WISE EdTech Accelerator coaches early stage edtech startups for a year. Applications close on 31 October 2026.
ARIA Safeguarded AI: Cybersecurity, 31 October 2026 batch
ARIA funds teams that use AI and formal proofs to build secure software, with £2.5 to 3.5 million per Blue Team. The next batch closes on 31 October 2026.
imec.istart Netherlands Autumn 2026
imec.istart Netherlands offers €100,000 in pre seed funding for tech startups based in the Netherlands. Apply by 31 October 2026.
imec.istart Spain Autumn 2026
imec.istart Spain offers €250,000 in pre seed funding for tech startups based in Spain. Apply by 31 October 2026.
RP2350 Hacking Challenge 2
Raspberry Pi pays $20,000 to the first person who leaks AES key material from the RP2350 by side channel analysis. Entries close 31 October 2026.
Tari October Build Contest 2026: Spooky Secrets
The Tari Council pays 1,000,000 XTM for the best new privacy project on Ootle. Entries close at 00:00 UTC on 1 November 2026.
Tari Ootle Security Bug Hunt
The Tari Council pays up to 1,000,000 XTM for security bugs in the pinned Ootle commit. The hunt ends at 00:00 UTC on 1 November 2026.
ESA BIC Switzerland: 31 October 2026 deadline
ESA BIC Switzerland offers up to EUR 200,000 without taking equity for Swiss space startups. Full applications are due 31 October 2026.
ELLIS PhD Program: call for applications 2026
The ELLIS PhD Program pairs machine learning students with advisors in Europe. Apply by 31 October 2026.
Expo App Awards 2026
Expo's yearly awards for the best apps built with Expo. App of the year wins $1,000 in Expo credit. Submit by 31 October 2026.
Mergetober 2026 with Cognee
Mergetober pays a $5,000 prize pool for open source integrations to Cognee. Open a pull request by 31 October 2026.
Sunday 1 November
New York and London Fintech Canadian Technology Accelerator 2027
Canadian B2B fintech companies can join a hybrid accelerator in New York and London from January to April 2027. Apply by 1 November 2026.
Pro Helvetia Game Design Emerging Talents: Nordic Game Conference 2027 delegation
Pro Helvetia gives emerging Swiss game studios a place in the SwissGames delegation at Nordic Game 2027 plus CHF 1,000 for travel. Apply by 1 November 2026.
Processing Foundation Fellowship 2027
Eight month paid fellowship with a $10,000 stipend to build open source creative coding tools on p5.js and Processing. US only. Nominations close 1 November 2026.
Pivotal Research AI Safety Fellowship Q1 2027
A 15 week, full time AI safety research fellowship in London with a £15,000 to £18,000 stipend plus housing. Apply by 1 November 2026.
Wikimedia Rapid Fund 2026, Cycle 3: grants for small tech projects
Wikimedia Rapid Fund gives 500 to 5,000 USD for short projects, including small software tools for Wikimedia. Cycle 3 deadline: 1 November 2026.
Generator Residency Winter 2027 for AI safety generalists
Generator is a three month residency in Berkeley for AI safety generalists, with a $8,500 monthly stipend and travel covered. Apply by November 1, 2026.
CAMBRIA January 2027: free AI safety bootcamp in Cambridge, MA
CAMBRIA is a free three week AI safety bootcamp in Cambridge, MA, from 4 to 22 January 2027, with housing, meals and travel support. Apply by 1 November 2026.
Monday 2 November
ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize 2026 offers $2M in prizes across three tracks for open source progress on the ARC-AGI benchmarks. Submissions on Kaggle are due November 2, 2026.
Y Combinator Winter 2027 batch
Y Combinator invests $500,000 in each startup accepted to its Winter 2027 batch in San Francisco. The on time application deadline is November 2, 2026.
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator: Winter 2027 cohort
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator invests $150,000 for 6% in each company in its four month Winter 2027 programme. Applications close on November 2, 2026.
ESA BIC Denmark: November 2026 application deadline
ESA BIC Denmark gives €80,000 in equity free funding and two years of coaching to Danish space startups. The next application deadline is November 2, 2026.
YouCam API Skin AI & eCommerce VTO Hackathon 2026
Perfect Corp. offers $6,000 in prizes for web or mobile apps built on its YouCam APIs for beauty, fashion and online shopping. Submissions close 2 November 2026.
AWS, CrowdStrike and Nvidia Cybersecurity Accelerator 2027
An 8 week equity free accelerator for seed stage security startups, mentored by AWS, CrowdStrike and NVIDIA. Apply October 5 to November 2, 2026.
MIT Solve 2027 Global Challenges
MIT Solve picks tech teams for a nine month support program with a $10,000 grant each and access to over $1M in prizes. Apply by 2 November 2026.
Breakthrough Energy Fellows Cohort 7: Innovator Fellowship 2027
Breakthrough Energy Fellows Cohort 7 offers climate tech founders up to $500,000 in a SAFE plus a year of support. Concept papers are due 2 November 2026.
0G Apollo Accelerator Cohort 2
0G Apollo Cohort 2 offers up to $2 million for up to 10 AI startups building on 0G. Applications close 2 November 2026.
Creative BC Video Games Early Stage Growth 2026/27
Creative BC offers up to $50,000 to new British Columbia game studios with at most one shipped game. Apply by 2 November 2026.
Startup Wise Guys Founders Club, cohort 21 (2026)
Startup Wise Guys Founders Club is a 3 month online program for B2B founders, with a possible investment up to €100,000. Apply by 2 November 2026.
Entrepreneurs First Winter 27 Bangalore Program: second selection round
Entrepreneurs First pays an INR 360,000 talent investment and can invest up to $250,000 per company. Apply by November 2, 2026 for the second selection round.
Tuesday 3 November
NLnet Foundation: open call for proposals with a November 3 deadline
NLnet funds open source and open hardware projects with first grants between 5,000 and 50,000 euro. The current call closes on November 3, 2026 at noon CET.
Open Science NL Open Science Infrastructure programme: second round 2026
Open Science NL will fund up to 1.7 million euros per proposal to improve digital infrastructure for open science. Letters of intent are due November 3, 2026.
ACLS Digital Justice Development Grants: 2026 competition
Grants of $50,000 to $100,000 for open digital humanities projects run through US universities. Applications close November 3, 2026.
Revert v4lend competition on Cantina
Revert Finance offers a $50,000 USDC pool for bugs in v4lend, on Cantina. The competition ends 3 November 2026.
Wednesday 4 November
EIC Accelerator 2026: 4 November deadline
The EIC Accelerator funds EU startups and SMEs with grants below €2.5 million and €1 to €10 million in investment. Full applications close November 4, 2026.
NSF State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs 2026
NSF funds State and Regional AI Infrastructure Hubs at $4,000,000 to $12,000,000 each. Full proposals are due November 4, 2026.
Future Leaders Fellowships: Round 11, business and non-academic
UKRI pays £100,000 to £3 million for a four year fellowship hosted by a UK business or non academic organisation. Applications close on 4 November 2026.
FORTIS Open Call #2 2026 for human robot interaction projects
FORTIS Open Call #2 funds European consortia with up to €250,000 per project to test and deploy human robot interaction tools. Apply by 4 November 2026.
Wallimage Gaming 2026: second call for video game projects
Wallimage Gaming invests up to €75,000 in preproduction and up to €400,000 in production of games with a footprint in Wallonia. Apply by November 4, 2026.
Amazon Security call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds AI security research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
AWS Agentic AI call for proposals: Fall 2026
AWS funds agentic AI research with gifts of no more than $70,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
AWS Cryptography call for proposals: Fall 2026
AWS offers cryptography research gifts of up to $80,000, plus up to $40,000 in AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Automated Reasoning call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds automated reasoning research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
On-Device Multimodal Perception call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds on device perception research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Build on Trainium call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon offers AWS credits of up to $250,000 and beyond for research on Trainium kernel agents. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
AI for Information Security call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds AI security research with gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon funds multilingual AI evaluation with gifts of no more than $50,000 on average, plus AWS credits. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception call for proposals: Fall 2026
Amazon offers research gifts of no more than $80,000 on average, plus AWS credits, for synthetic perception data. Proposals close 4 November 2026.
Fediverse Multimedia Grants 2026 by the Social Web Foundation
Grants of up to US$20,000 for developer and creator teams that start new audio, video or image publications on the Fediverse. Apply by 4 November 2026.
Game Gauntlet SIM Jam 2026
Six week online game jam to build a game that simulates a system, with $1,000 for first place and $500 for second. Submissions close 4 November 2026.
UNICEF Femtech Ventures 2026: second call for open source startups
UNICEF Femtech Ventures gives open source startups up to US$100,000 equity free and 12 months of mentoring for women's health tech. Apply by 4 November 2026.
NSF AI Datasets 2026: grants up to $5 million to make science data ready for AI
NSF grants of up to $5 million to make existing science datasets usable by AI. Open to US universities, labs and companies. Deadline November 4, 2026.
