Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Atom, find grants based on your research interests
Hi HN, I've built a grant discovery tool to help researchers speed up the grant application process. You can try out the grant search engine without signing up but for the personalized email newsletter but you will have to sign up and create a profile with your research interests. Please let us know if you have any feedback :) Background: My co-founder and I come from research backgrounds and one of the most common complaints we heard is how much time PI's spend finding and applying for funding (up to 50% of a researchers time) It currently takes 2-3 weeks to find the right grant to apply…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Atom, find grants based on your research interests launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Atom▲86Find research grants with Atom's neural matching newsletter
2023 · atomgrants.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Last year, we launched a non-profit AI research lab called AI Grant (http://aigrant.org). Our goal is to fund promising people around the world working on AI. No strings attached. We've since given away over $100,000 to 30 teams working on different projects. You can see some of them here: http://aigrant.org/#finalists. We just started accepting applications for our third batch! The academic grant application process is burdensome. It's only avalible to a choice few. Applications take days to complete. AI Grant is open to anyone on the internet. You can apply…
2018 · its alternatives →
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Tandemz▲202UX research recruitment platform for all your research needs
2023 · bilendi-ux.com · its alternatives →
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I'm launching an experimental research grant that I call Cat's grant (I'll find a better name later). tldr: - you get paid to do your own research and report to me - you keep IP/ownership rights - 10 months duration - choose a grant size of $10k, $50k or $100k total (paid in monthly chunks) - Apply by sending an email to [email protected] How it works: You specify the grant size when applying: 10k, 50k and 100k. This total amount will be distributed over a period of 10 months. I will review each application within 1 week. The deadline to apply is June 9. The start date is flexible…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Find accelerators & grants for your startup (free)
2025 · founders.partenit.io · its alternatives →
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21st Fund▲151I built this after struggling to find relevant grants and fellowships myself. The project started at the EF Hackathon as a credit underwriting and matching agent for founders. After speaking with founders and students, it became clear that discovery itself was the bigger problem. Most people do not know what grants or non-dilutive options exist for them. So I iterated and built 21st.fund. You describe who you are and what you are building, and the tool surfaces relevant grants, fellowships, and programs. The goal is to reduce time spent digging through scattered government sites, PDFs, and…
Jan 2026 · 21st.fund · its alternatives →
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Talking to your users should be this easy.
2018 · userinterviews.com · its alternatives →
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FirstIgnite▲116Matching scientific research to business needs
2021 · firstignite.com · its alternatives →
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FundedList▲79Weekly report of newly funded founders with verified emails
2021 · fundedlist.com · its alternatives →
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One click applications from startups/founders to investors.
2025 · its alternatives →
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Quantbase▲144Launch an investment fund for your audience in under 2 weeks
2022 · getquantbase.com · its alternatives →
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Grant search engine & expert marketplace
2021 · opengrants.io · its alternatives →
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Instrumentl▲123Easily find and apply to scientific grants
2016 · instrumentl.com · its alternatives →
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- 18WU
hey y'all -- can you please tell us if our job search tool sucks? :D we built it using an investor platform called Harmonic.ai to gather startup data, then contextualize it so that job seekers could find out about the most exciting startups hiring first (like if they just raised, growing headcount fast, have an ex-unicorn founder, etc). pretty sure we're the first platform doing anything like this. anyway, let me know what you think. really excited to launch this thing soon! getting feedback from the hn community first is really fun :)
2022 · joinmaasive.com · its alternatives →
- 19IM
Hi Guys, I got overwhelming support and feedback from my last post about secondfounder.com but still, I felt the need of connecting founders together so that they can together buy a side project. It's very often when a non-technical founder buys a project they have to find a technical founder to take that project further. Today I have implemented this feature in secondfounder.com Link: https://secondfounder.com/find-founder Your feedback is always welcome. Thanks
2022 · its alternatives →
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GrantGPT▲29Your public funding matchmaker: Research & apply in minutes
2024 · grantgpt.eu · its alternatives →
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Find the right grants for your project!
Aug 2026 · share.streamlit.io · its alternatives →
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