If you are looking for funding and support for your business, below is a range of grants, venture capitalists and lenders that may be applicable to your business.
If you’re an organisation and would like to add your funding programs to this list, please email innovation@nt.gov.au
The Aboriginal Business Development Program (ABDP) assists Aboriginal people to start or expand their business with grants between $1,000 and $30,000. Grant recipients also get one-on-one support from a small business champion.
Aboriginal Workforce Grants support initiatives or projects that result in more Aboriginal Territorians entering employment and developing careers within the workplace.
Provides businesses with access to expert advice and matched funding of up to $1 million to cover eligible commercialisation costs to help them to take novel products, processes and services to market.
Support small-scale and pilot research projects in advanced manufacturing, and benefit smaller firms and early stage research. The fund will provide grants to small to medium enterprises for rapid initial feasibility testing, allowing the projects to then move quickly to larger-scale research or commercialisation.
The Advancing Renewables Program aims to fund projects that contribute to one or more of the following outcomes:
AirTree is a venture capital fund with a mission to help the most ambitious Australian and Kiwi technology entrepreneurs achieve their vision. As one of the largest venture capital funds in the region with over half a billion dollars under management, AirTree aims to back startups from the earliest moments in their first funding round, often pre-revenue, and has the firepower to continue supporting successful companies over multiple, subsequent rounds.
The Australia-China Science and Research Fund (ACSRF) supports strategic science, technology and innovation collaboration between Australia and China.
The ACSRF facilitates activities that:
For charitable organisations and social impact initiatives making a difference to planet, people and animals.
The Automotive Transformation Scheme aims to encourage competitive investment, innovation and economic sustainability in the Australian automotive industry.
Provides companies with venture capital through licensed private sector fund managers to develop and commercialise biomedical discoveries in Australia.
Bonds are often a prerequisite for Australian exporters and companies providing goods or services to domestic export-related contracts. If you’re a direct exporter or a company in an export supply chain, this bond facility can help your business secure your next export-related project.
Provides organisations with grants of between $5,000 to $10 million to new or expanded local events, strategic regional plans, or leadership and capability strengthening activities that provide economic and social benefits to regional and remote areas.
The Business Acceleration Program consists of two parts: the growth clinic and the growth modules. The program is underpinned by our Knowledge Framework for Growth - our guiding framework that enables chief executive officers / managing directors and executives to understand how their company works and the changes they need to make to grow their company.
Global introduction service for private companies and start-ups and private angel investors.
Provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and businesses with access to finance products, advice, training and workshops to start or grow a small to medium business.
If you have received a business management service and your business adviser / facilitator recommends specific business improvement activities to increase your business’s capability to trade in Australian markets and / or markets in other countries, you can apply for a business growth grant.
Information, funding and development services to help businesses improve:
Provides those who have received a Centre for Defence Industry Capability advisory or facilitation services report with grants of between $5,000 to $250,000 to reimburse up to half of the cost of engaging a consultant or expert to implement the recommendations in the report.
Seed and early stage investor.
Provides Australian manufacturers importing chemicals, plastics, paper goods and metal materials, or goods used in food packaging, with duty-free tariff concessions to help reduce their importing costs.
