Semiconductors & Microelectronics grants
UK Semiconductor Strategy-era funding for chip design, packaging and materials
Between Innovate UK CR&D competitions, the UK Semiconductor Strategy and Horizon Europe chip-related priorities, semiconductor start-ups have more routes to funding than at any point in decades. Capital intensity is the challenge: assessors want to know a feasibility award genuinely reduces risk rather than paying for a tape-out.
£190m+ won by our team
PhD-level specialists who have won these awards themselves.
Funders funding semiconductors & microelectronics
- EPSRC
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Programmes that fit semiconductors & microelectronics companies
Innovate UK CR&D competitions
Devices, design tools, advanced packaging and materials for UK-registered SMEs.
ATI SME Programme
Aerospace-relevant microelectronics, avionics and power electronics funding.
Horizon Europe cluster calls
Metrology and standards work supporting European manufacturing resilience.
What assessors actually score
- A feasibility scope that genuinely fits the budget and fab access
- Named foundry, packaging or characterisation partners
- Yield, power and performance targets against a real incumbent
Where we work in semiconductors & microelectronics
Semiconductors & Microelectronics grants in our directory
Live programmes from the UK grant directory that suit semiconductors & microelectronics projects. Deadlines move between rounds, so each listing links through to the current detail.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon Europe - DIGITAL] CL4-2027-04 Energy-efficient AI Data Centres
This is a demonstration-heavy, industrially oriented grant for mature technologies that can materially reduce the energy and environmental impact of AI data centres. The Commission wants practical pilots, not conceptual studies: cooling, power backup, AI-aware operations, waste-heat reuse and energy-system integration all need to be shown in credible real-world settings. The most competitive bids will probably present a full-stack story: chip/module thermal management + data-centre operations optimisation + energy/waste-heat integration + validated industrial use cases. A good proposal should…
European Innovation Council
EIC Accelerator
Funding and investment for high-risk, high-potential deep-tech SMEs and start-ups scaling breakthrough innovations.
Advanced Research + Invention Agency
ARIA opportunity spaces
Rolling and programme-based funding for high-risk, high-reward research with the potential for transformative impact.
Innovate UK
Collaborative R&D (CR&D) competitions
Mission-led competitions under the Innovate UK plans (e.g. Clean Energy Superpower Mission) funding partnerships between businesses and research organisations.
Innovate UK
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
Three-way partnership between a business, an academic institution and a graduate to deliver a strategic innovation project.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Climate security and civil preparedness – new ways to develop pre- and post-crisis climate…
Open to legal entities (including research organisations, public bodies and international organisations with HQ in an EU Member State or Associated Country) eligible under Horizon Europe rules; consortia must include at least 3 national authorities in charge of disaster risk management as beneficiaries, each from a different EU Member State or Associated Country.
Relevant client wins
Grants our team has won for companies solving comparable technical problems.
£452,654
For composite production leap
Mayku
Advanced manufacturing: composites
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Grant plus matched investment
Grant and investor funding aligned
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AI / adtech: audio advertising
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