https://getbursary.vercel.app Newly added funding programs that founders, builders, creators, students and small businesses can apply for. Hand-verified; each links to its official application page. From Bursary. en-us Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-363089 https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-363089 Grant Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Up to $500,000 · for founder, smallbiz, builder. Small Business Administration. Federal grant (opp SB-OIIGA-26-001); typically requires SAM.gov registration and an entity. Verify full eligibility on the official page. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-kaya-ai-india-hackathon-2026 https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-kaya-ai-india-hackathon-2026 Prize / contest Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $350,000 in prizes · for founder, builder, creator. Online hackathon by Kaya — IoT, Machine Learning/AI, Enterprise. 1,435 registered. Verify eligibility (some are region-locked). https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-362646 https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-362646 Grant Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Up to $180,000 · for founder, smallbiz, builder. Small Business Administration. Federal grant (opp SB-OIIFT-26-001); typically requires SAM.gov registration and an entity. Verify full eligibility on the official page. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-slack-agent-builder-challenge https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-slack-agent-builder-challenge Prize / contest Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $42,000 in prizes · for founder, builder, creator. Online hackathon by Salesforce — Beginner Friendly, Enterprise, Low/No Code. 4,243 registered. Verify eligibility (some are region-locked). https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-reddit-s-games-with-a-hook-hackathon https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-reddit-s-games-with-a-hook-hackathon Prize / contest Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $40,000 in prizes · for founder, builder, creator. Online hackathon by reddit — Beginner Friendly, Gaming, Web. 2,764 registered. Verify eligibility (some are region-locked). https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-backblaze-generative-media-hackathon-bui https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-backblaze-generative-media-hackathon-bui Prize / contest Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $10,000 in prizes · for founder, builder, creator. Online hackathon by Backblaze — Machine Learning/AI, Music/Art, Voice skills. 730 registered. Verify eligibility (some are region-locked). https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-cockroachdb-aws-hackathon-build-with-age https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-cockroachdb-aws-hackathon-build-with-age Prize / contest Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $8,750 in prizes · for founder, builder, creator. Online hackathon by Cockroach Labs — Machine Learning/AI, Databases, DevOps. 1,284 registered. Verify eligibility (some are region-locked). https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-arm-create-ai-optimization-challenge https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/dp-arm-create-ai-optimization-challenge Prize / contest Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $8,000 in prizes · for founder, builder, creator. Online hackathon by arm — Machine Learning/AI. 1,220 registered. Verify eligibility (some are region-locked). https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-359671 https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-359671 Grant Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Federal grant (award varies) · for founder, smallbiz, builder. National Institutes of Health. Federal grant (opp PA-27-100); typically requires SAM.gov registration and an entity. Verify full eligibility on the official page. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-359757 https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-359757 Grant Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Federal grant (award varies) · for founder, smallbiz, builder. National Institutes of Health. Federal grant (opp PA-27-102); typically requires SAM.gov registration and an entity. Verify full eligibility on the official page. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-359758 https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-359758 Grant Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Federal grant (award varies) · for founder, smallbiz, builder. National Institutes of Health. Federal grant (opp PA-27-101); typically requires SAM.gov registration and an entity. Verify full eligibility on the official page. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-359669 https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gg-359669 Grant Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Federal grant (award varies) · for founder, smallbiz, builder. National Institutes of Health. Federal grant (opp PAR-27-098); typically requires SAM.gov registration and an entity. Verify full eligibility on the official page. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/sbir-americas-seed-fund https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/sbir-americas-seed-fund Grant Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Up to $323,090 Phase I (equity-free) · for founder, smallbiz, builder. The largest source of early-stage non-dilutive US funding. Federal agencies (DoD, NSF, NIH, DOE, NASA and more) award equity-free Phase I R&D grants up to $323,090 (2026 cap), with larger Phase II follow-ons. For US for-profit small businesses under 500 employees, over 50% US-owned, building innovative tech. Solicitations are agency-specific on rolling schedules; browse open topics at the link. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/microsoft-founders-hub https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/microsoft-founders-hub Startup credits Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Up to $150,000 Azure credits + AI model access · for founder, builder. Self-serve "Get started" application, no investor or partner referral needed. Up to $150K in Azure credits unlocked in stages, plus access to Azure OpenAI and other AI models and dev tools (verified 2026-06-26). Build a software product and have not exhausted the benefit before; no external funding required and you can start pre-incorporation, though higher tiers verify your startup. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/github-student-pack https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/github-student-pack Startup credits Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT $200+ in credits + free pro dev tools · for student. Free for verified students at accredited schools; sign up with your school email. Bundles a $200 DigitalOcean credit, $100 Azure credit, MongoDB Atlas $50, free JetBrains IDEs, GitHub Pro and 100+ partner offers. Renews while you stay enrolled, no entity needed. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/azure-for-students https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/azure-for-students Startup credits Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT $100 Azure credit, no credit card · for student. $100 in Azure credit with no credit card required, plus free access to 25+ services. For full-time students 18+ at an accredited degree-granting institution; verify with your school email. Renews $100 each year you stay enrolled. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/deepgram-startup-program https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/deepgram-startup-program Startup credits Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Up to $100,000 voice-AI credits (12 months) · for founder, builder. Voice/speech-to-text credits (transcription, summarization, sentiment) for NEW Deepgram customers only: company-domain email + live website, under $10M raised (pre-Series A), actively building or launching within 6 months. Credits valid 12 months; review ~1 week, deposited 24-48h after acceptance. $100K is the ceiling tier, actual award is set on acceptance. Winning move: Apply from a company-domain email, not a personal Gmail. It is the most common auto-rejection. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/vercel-startups https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/vercel-startups Startup credits Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Free Vercel Pro + up to $10,000 platform credits · for founder, builder. Free Vercel Pro plus platform credits for 12+ months for early-stage startups. Most founders get in through an accelerator or VC partner code, but direct applications are considered; credit size scales with your tier and partner. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/fireworks-startups https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/fireworks-startups Startup credits Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Up to $5,000 credits + higher rate limits · for founder, builder. Rolling program for early-stage AI-native startups: serverless inference build credits + higher rate limits + access to applied-AI engineers. Credit size is set on acceptance; some credits are distributed via Google Cloud for Startups. Use a company-domain email. Winning move: Apply from a company-domain email, not a personal Gmail. It is the most common auto-rejection. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/perplexity-startups https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/perplexity-startups Startup credits Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT $5,000 API credits + 6 months Enterprise Pro (50 seats) · for founder, builder. Early-stage startups under $10M raised and under 5 years old, affiliated with an approved Perplexity startup partner (accelerator/VC). Gives $5,000 in Sonar API credits plus 6 months of Enterprise Pro for up to 50 seats. Apply through your partner; if your investor is not a partner yet they can ask to join. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/linear-startups https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/linear-startups Startup credits Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT Up to 6 months free Basic/Business · for founder, builder. Up to 6 months of Linear Basic or Business free for non-paying startups under 50 employees that are affiliated with a Linear partner (investor/accelerator). Enter your partner code as a workspace admin; if your investor is not a partner, ask them to apply to join. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/startup-world-cup-2026-regional https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/startup-world-cup-2026-regional Prize / contest Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $1,000,000 grand finale + regional cash · for founder. Apply remotely to an open regional (deadlines vary; Philadelphia closes Jul 15, Kansas City open through Aug 6); winners advance to the SF $1M finale Nov 6. Legal entity required. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gemini-xprize https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/gemini-xprize Prize / contest Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $500,000 top ($2M pool) · for builder, founder. Must be a NEW project started after May 19. The moonshot. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/yc https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/yc Accelerator Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $500K + ~$3.5M credit stack · for founder. Takes solo founders. Auto-unlocks the entire portfolio credit stack. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/arc-prize-2026-agi2 https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/arc-prize-2026-agi2 Prize / contest Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $700K pool / $275K grand prize · for builder. Solo or team, fully remote via Kaggle notebook; hit 85% on the private ARC-AGI-2 eval within compute limits, open-source within 7 days. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/google-start https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/google-start Startup credits Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Start $2K → up to $250K/yr (AI-first) · for founder, builder. Two tracks: self-serve Start ($2K credits; needs an incorporated entity + working site) and the AI-first program — up to $250K Google Cloud credits year 1 (+~$100K year 2) for startups whose core product uses Gemini/Google Cloud AI, raised Pre-seed/Seed within 5 years or Series A within 12 months. Third-party models billed separately. Verified 2026-06-26. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/thiel-fellowship https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/thiel-fellowship Grant Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $250,000 over two years · for founder, student. Truly non-dilutive (no equity), but you must be 22 or younger and skip or leave school; about 20-30 spots a year. Award raised to $250K (verified 2026). https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/entrepreneur-first https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/entrepreneur-first Accelerator Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT Up to $250K + $5M follow-on + $600K credits · for founder. Invests in individuals before they have a co-founder or even an idea: equity-free grant during ideation, up to $250K once a company forms, up to $5M follow-on, plus $600K+ in Azure/OpenAI/Anthropic/GitHub credits. Cohorts in London, Bangalore, and San Francisco. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/stripe-atlas https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/stripe-atlas Startup credits Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT ~$220K partner perks · for founder. $500 to incorporate a DE C-corp -> unlocks Anthropic $500, AWS $5K, Azure $5K, etc. https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/techstars https://getbursary.vercel.app/programs/techstars Accelerator Sun, 12 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT $120K ($20K for ~6% + $100K note) · for founder. Three-month mentorship-driven program across 20+ cities; standard deal is $20K for ~6% common plus a $100K convertible note. Accepts very early teams pre-incorporation; rolling deadlines per program.