Here you will find a list of opportunities within the MIT ecosystem to help you fund your research or start your future enterprise. At the end of the page, you will also find a list of fellowships.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Resources
- MIT Innovation Office: build the innovation infrastructure that stewards the entire process of innovation—from idea through impact—by connecting, enabling, and inspiring MIT’s most innovative people, programs, places, and partnerships. https://innovation.mit.edu/
- MIT Venture Mentoring Service (VMS): supports innovation and entrepreneurial activity throughout the MIT community by matching both prospective and experienced entrepreneurs with skilled volunteer mentors. https://vms.mit.edu/
- Office of Foundation Relations (OFR): optimize philanthropic support to the Institute from foundations. https://foundations.mit.edu/
- MIT Technology Licensing Office: bridge connections from MIT’s research community to industry and startups, by strategically evaluating, protecting, and licensing technology. https://tlo.mit.edu/
MIT start up incubators for accelerating entrepreneurship and building future enterprises.
- The Engine backs founders solving the world’s biggest problems through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership. https://www.engine.xyz/
- MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition has brought together students and researchers from across MIT and Greater Boston to launch their talent, ideas, and technology into leading companies. https://www.mit100k.org/
- MIT Solve is a marketplace for social impact innovation with a mission to drive innovation to solve world challenges. https://solve.mit.edu/
- Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab Fuelling research, innovation, and collaboration to solve urgent global water and food systems challenges. https://jwafs.mit.edu/
- NSF created I-Corps to nurture and sustain a national innovation ecosystem that builds upon fundamental research to guide the output of discoveries closer to the development of technologies, products, services, and processes that benefit society. https://icorps.mit.edu/
Funding databases available to the MIT research community:
- Pivot – A searchable curated database of global funding opportunities covering over 13,000 public and private sponsors and >$70B of funding. (MIT login required.) Pivot© QuickStart Guide
- Grants.gov This is a comprehensive list of all federal agency solicitations. Individual agency funding links can be found on our Federal Funding page
- GrantsNet – Funding Opportunities for Training in the Biological and Medical Sciences
- Junior Faculty Funding Opportunities
- Mendeley Funding, a funding search tool
- Foundation Directory Online – a searchable compendium of foundation funding sources
- NORDP – The National Organization of Research Development Professionals, has a wealth of additional research development resources.
Crowdfunding:
- Crowdfund MIT is an MIT-exclusive, Institute-supported crowdfunding platform that MIT students, teams, faculty, and departments can use to raise funds for their projects, research, groups, and programs. This easy-to-use tool collects gifts, builds cause awareness, and facilitates social sharing. https://crowdfund.mit.edu/
Fellowships
Here’s an extensive list of postdoctoral fellowships you might be eligible to apply for.
- Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program
- Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
- METEOR Program
- The Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund
- Science and Society (S&S)
- EMBO Long-Term Fellowships
- Epilepsy Fdn. Behavioral Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellowship
- NASA Postdoctoral Program
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship Award
- Cancer Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- American Cancer Research – Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Advancing Theory in Biology (ATB)
- The Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
- NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
- Human Frontier Science Fellowships
- Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
- Life Sciences Research Foundation
- Epilepsy Fdn. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- Ford Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowships
- EMBO Short-Term Fellowships
- Army Research Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
- The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program
- Department of the Army Resident Research Associateships
- The Office of Naval Technology Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program
- National Institute of Health – Individual Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards
- OEERE Postdoctoral Research Awards
- The National Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine (here, and here)
- Singapore NRF Fellowship (class of 2021)
- Cornell University Graduate School Fellowship Database
- Notre Dame Graduate Fellowships Database
- UCLA Graduate and Postdoctoral Extramural Support
- Grant Forward (free trial)