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Funding sources
Every grant, fund, fellowship, accelerator, studio, and first check for biotech founders — in one continuously updated map of the earliest capital, in all its forms.
Last updated 2026 · Anyone can add to it
Filter by what you're raising — a non-dilutive grant, a first equity check, a fellowship, a studio to build with. Search across every source.
Biotech's first dollars rarely come from one place. The map covers the whole spectrum — dilutive and not.
Grants, fellowships, and prizes — from NIH SBIR and ARPA-H to philanthropic fast-grants. Money that funds the science without taking equity.
Venture studios and creation firms that start the company with you — capitalizing a newco from an idea or an academic breakthrough.
Accelerators, pre-seed and seed funds, angels and syndicates writing the first equity or SAFE into a founding team.
Incubators and shared labs that give the bench, reagents, and network that early biotech needs before it can scale.
Know a grant, fund, fellowship, or accelerator that belongs on the map? Submit it. We review additions before they go live.
Biotech founders are hidden in labs — and so is the money that could start them. The earliest capital sits scattered across hundreds of grants, accelerators, studios, fellowships, and first-check funds, each with its own stage, geography, and terms.
Biopunk exists to make that map legible and keep it current. It's an open, community-maintained directory of the earliest-stage financing for biotech, in every form — dilutive and non-dilutive, public and private, global.
Found a gap? Add a source or contribute on GitHub. The data is open.
Biopunk is a resource, not a fund. The investing happens at haus.fund — pre-seed capital for biotech founders at the earliest stage.
Building the biotech ecosystem more broadly? See biopunk.house.