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All Singapore business grants
Support rates, caps, and plain-English eligibility for every major scheme. Terms change at Budget time; each entry links to the official source and shows when we last reviewed it.
42 grants
EDGE · Enterprise Singapore
EDGE (Unified Enterprise Grant)
Announced at Budget 2026: one unified grant that consolidates EDG, PSG and MRA into a single activity-based application covering digitalisation, overseas expansion, and enterprise efficiency. Launching in the second half of 2026 and open to ALL Singapore businesses, including non-SMEs.
EDG · Enterprise Singapore
Enterprise Development Grant
The flagship SME grant. Co-funds up to 50% of qualified project costs for business upgrading, innovation, and overseas growth projects, including consultancy fees, software, equipment, and internal manpower tied to the project.
MRA · Enterprise Singapore
Market Readiness Assistance
Co-funds up to 70% of the cost of entering a NEW overseas market for SMEs (raised from 50% at Budget 2026), capped at S$100,000 per market: overseas marketing, business development, and market entry setup.
PSG · Enterprise Singapore (via GoBusiness)
Productivity Solutions Grant
Co-funds up to 50% of PRE-APPROVED software and equipment: ERP, accounting, HR, inventory, e-commerce, and sector-specific solutions. The fastest grant to claim because the solutions are pre-vetted.
3R Fund · National Environment Agency (NEA)
3R Fund (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle)
NEA co-funds up to 80% of projects that reduce or recycle waste, capped at S$1 million, with the payout pegged to how many tonnes of waste you actually divert. Open to companies and organisations of any type, but the project must cut at least 100 tonnes of waste over its duration.
ADS · IMDA
Advanced Digital Solutions
Co-funds up to 50% of advanced, integrated digital solutions (AI, robotics, integrated B2B platforms) that go beyond single-purpose PSG software.
ACT Fund · Singapore Food Agency
Agri-food Cluster Transformation (ACT) Fund
SFA's fund to make local farms more productive, climate-resilient, and resource-efficient, now in its second phase (ACT Fund 2) with S$70 million committed through 31 March 2031. It co-funds farming equipment and pre-scoped solutions, large-scale high-tech production systems, and new industry partnership projects.
BIF · Singapore Tourism Board
Business Improvement Fund (BIF)
STB's grant for tourism businesses (and tech companies building tourism solutions) to fund technology adoption, business model redesign, automation, and sustainability projects. SMEs get up to 70% of qualifying costs supported, non-SMEs up to 50%, paid on reimbursement after milestones.
CISOaaS · Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA)
CISO-as-a-Service (Cybersecurity Health Plan)
CSA pays up to 70% of the cost of hiring an approved cybersecurity consultant who audits your business, writes a tailored cybersecurity health plan, and helps you fix the gaps. It is the standard route to getting Cyber Essentials certified without hiring your own security staff.
CCP · Workforce Singapore
Career Conversion Programme
Salary support of up to 90% during the training period when you hire and reskill mid-career workers into new roles, across 100+ programmes by sector and role.
CTC Grant · NTUC e2i
Company Training Committee Grant
Up to 70% co-funding for transformation plans developed with an NTUC Company Training Committee, covering equipment, software, and training tied to worker outcomes.
DLP · IMDA
Digital Leaders Programme (DLP) & Digital Leaders Accelerator Bootcamp (DLAB)
For digitally ambitious non-ICT companies that want to go beyond off-the-shelf tools: IMDA funds you to chart a digital roadmap, hire an in-house digital team, and deliver emerging-tech (especially AI) projects. The newer DLAB bootcamp, run with partners like BCG and EY-Parthenon, walks your leadership through scoping and shipping a small AI project in under three months.
DTDi · Enterprise Singapore / IRAS
Double Tax Deduction for Internationalisation
Deduct 200% of qualifying overseas expansion expenses (market trips, trade fairs, overseas marketing) against taxable income, with an automatic claim up to a yearly cap.
EEC · IRAS / MOM / SG Enable
Enabling Employment Credit
A wage offset of up to 20% for every local employee with disabilities you hire, paid automatically. Hire someone with a disability who has been out of work six months or more and the offset roughly doubles for their first nine months.
EEG · Enterprise Singapore / NEA
Energy Efficiency Grant
Co-funds up to 70% of pre-approved energy-efficient equipment (LED, aircon, refrigeration, cooking equipment and more) for SMEs in supported sectors like F&B, manufacturing, and retail.
EFS · Enterprise Singapore (with banks)
Enterprise Financing Scheme
Not a grant, but the reason banks say yes: the government shares 50 to 70% of loan default risk across working capital, trade, fixed assets, venture debt, and M&A loans.
EIS · IRAS
Enterprise Innovation Scheme (EIS)
A tax scheme that gives your business 400% tax deductions or allowances on the first S$400,000 you spend each year on innovation activities like R&D, IP registration, and staff training. If you are not yet profitable, you can convert up to S$100,000 of that qualifying spend into a non-taxable cash payout of up to S$20,000 per year instead.
ESF · Singapore Tourism Board (STB)
Experience Step-Up Fund
STB co-funds tourism businesses to develop new visitor experiences, refresh content, adopt technology or upgrade amenities. It is the go-to STB fund for making an existing tourism product more attractive, including digital and hybrid experiences.
FSTI 3.0 · Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
Financial Sector Technology and Innovation Scheme (FSTI 3.0)
MAS's umbrella scheme funding innovation in the financial sector across seven tracks: Centre of Excellence, Industry-wide Infrastructure, Innovation Acceleration, AI & Data Analytics, ESG FinTech, RegTech and Quantum. Fintechs and solution providers can qualify on several tracks (e.g. Early Innovation at up to 50% of costs capped at S$400,000), but note the scheme is currently extended only until 16 July 2026.
GenAI for SMEs · IMDA (SMEs Go Digital)
GenAI for SMEs (GenAI Navigator + pre-approved GenAI solutions)
IMDA's current GenAI offering for SMEs: a free GenAI Navigator tool that matches you to the right solution, plus a catalogue of pre-approved GenAI solutions (chatbots, marketing content generation, office productivity, generative web design) with up to 50% grant support. This is what the earlier GenAI Sandbox trials have evolved into.
Go Digital Advisor · IMDA (SMEs Go Digital)
Go Digital Advisor & Digital Health Check (formerly CTO-as-a-Service)
Free self-serve advisory on the SMEs Go Digital portal: a 5-10 minute Digital Health Check scores how digitally ready you are for your sector, and the Go Digital Advisor matches your pain points to grant-supported solutions. It is the current form of what IMDA used to call CTO-as-a-Service.
GTS · Building and Construction Authority (BCA)
Growth and Transformation Scheme
BCA funds developer-led alliances (developer plus consultants, main contractor, subcontractors, prefabricators) up to 70% of the cost premium of transforming how they build, targeting 30-35% site productivity gains. Applications are open until 31 March 2028 under the BuildSG Transformation Fund.
Kickstart · Singapore Tourism Board (STB)
Kickstart Fund
STB funding of up to S$1 million per project to pilot innovative tourism concepts and events with strong potential, supporting up to four editions of a new event over four years. Designed to de-risk trying something genuinely new in the tourism scene.
LEAD · Enterprise Singapore
Local Enterprise and Association Development (LEAD) Programme
Funds trade associations and chambers (TACs) to run industry-wide projects that upgrade capabilities and take local enterprises overseas, covering up to 70% of eligible costs. SMEs benefit indirectly: TACs use LEAD to subsidise members' participation in international trade fairs and business missions at up to 70% of eligible expenses.
MINT Fund · Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA)
Maritime Innovation and Technology (MINT) Fund
MPA's fund for maritime tech, with two live schemes: MINT-RPD co-funds applied R&D and product development done in Singapore, and MINT-STARTUP gives start-ups that finish PIER71 or partner accelerators up to S$100,000 for proof-of-concept and pilot projects. Both are geared to getting new tech deployed in the port and shipping sector.
MCPP · WSG / SWDA
Mid-Career Pathways Programme (Host Organisations)
Trial an experienced 40+ hire for four to six months while the government pays 70% of their attachment allowance. If they work out, you convert them to a permanent role; if not, you part ways with no severance baggage.
OMIP · WSG / SWDA (Programme Partner: Singapore Business Federation)
Overseas Markets Immersion Programme (for Employers)
Posting a Singaporean employee overseas to open a new market? OMIP pays up to 70% of their salary and 70% of their overseas living allowance for up to nine months. Total support can reach S$72,000 per employee posted.
PACT · Enterprise Singapore / EDB
Partnerships for Capability Transformation (PACT)
Co-funds structured partnerships between large companies (MNCs or large local enterprises) and Singapore-based SMEs across five modalities: supplier development, co-innovation, capability training, internationalisation, and corporate venturing. Enhanced in March 2024 to cover more industries and partnership types, with a government target of 100 new partnerships over five years.
PWCS · IRAS
Progressive Wage Credit Scheme
The government co-funds a share of wage increases you give to lower-wage local employees, automatically via IRAS, no application needed.
REG(E) · Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB)
Resource Efficiency Grant for Emissions (REG(E))
EDB co-funds up to 50% of projects in manufacturing facilities and data centres that measurably cut carbon, such as energy-efficiency retrofits, non-CO2 greenhouse gas reduction or flare gas recovery. The scheme is open until end-FY2030 and the grant is sized by the carbon abatement your project actually delivers.
Scale-Up · Enterprise Singapore
Scale-Up Programme
EnterpriseSG's flagship 12-18 month programme that grooms high-growth local companies into global champions, with consulting from partners like McKinsey, EY-Parthenon, PwC and Bain, plus executive training from Stanford and Wharton. Past participants (80 companies across 7 cohorts) added S$2.5 billion in combined revenue within three years of joining.
SEC · IRAS / MOM
Senior Employment Credit
The government pays you back a slice of the wages of every older Singaporean on your payroll, automatically. If you employ Singapore Citizens aged 60 and above earning up to S$4,000 a month, you receive a wage offset without lifting a finger.
ETSS / AP Funding · SWDA (merged SkillsFuture Singapore + Workforce Singapore)
SkillsFuture Course Fee Funding + Absentee Payroll (employer-sponsored training)
Send staff on any SkillsFuture-approved course and the subsidy is knocked off the invoice upfront - SMEs pay as little as 10% of the course fee. On top of that, Absentee Payroll funding pays you S$4.50 for every hour your employee sits in training.
SFEC · SkillsFuture Singapore
SkillsFuture Enterprise Credit
A S$10,000 credit that offsets 90% of out-of-pocket costs on supportable enterprise and workforce transformation programmes, stacking ON TOP of existing grant support.
WDG(JR+) · WSG / SWDA (via Business Grants Portal)
SkillsFuture Workforce Development Grant (Job Redesign+)
The new, much bigger successor to PSG-JR: it funds consultants to redesign jobs around AI and automation, trains your managers to carry the change, and part-pays the HR tech to sustain it. The cap jumped from S$30,000 under PSG-JR to S$150,000 per enterprise.
SSGE · Enterprise Singapore / EDB
Startup SG Equity
The government co-invests alongside approved private-sector investment partners into Singapore-based tech startups with IP and global market potential, stretching every private dollar you raise. Budget 2026 topped the scheme up with S$1 billion and expanded it beyond early-stage to growth-stage deep tech startups.
SSG Founder · Enterprise Singapore
Startup SG Founder
A S$50,000 startup capital grant for first-time founders, co-matched 3:1 against S$10,000 you commit, delivered through Accredited Mentor Partners (AMPs) with mentorship attached.
SSG Tech · Enterprise Singapore
Startup SG Tech
Early-stage funding for deep-tech: Proof-of-Concept grants up to S$250,000 and Proof-of-Value up to S$500,000 for breakthrough technology commercialisation.
TPDF · Singapore Tourism Board (STB)
Tourism Product Development Fund
STB funding for building new tourism products and experiences that will draw foreign visitors and get them spending. Sits alongside BIF but is aimed at creating something new rather than improving how an existing business runs.
UEC · IRAS / MOM
Uplifting Employment Credit
A wage offset for giving ex-offenders a second chance: the government covers up to 20% of their wages for the first nine months of employment. It was extended at Budget 2025 and now runs until end-2028.
WEF · PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency
Water Efficiency Fund
PUB co-funds businesses to audit, pilot and implement water-saving measures, from a 70%-funded water audit up to S$5 million for a full-scale water recycling plant. Aimed at heavier water users (from 1,000 cubic metres a month), it pays you either per cubic metre of water saved or a share of capital cost, whichever is lower.
WSS · SWDA / WSG
Workfare Skills Support (employer-sponsored track)
When you send lower-wage staff for approved training, WSS reimburses 95% of their hourly salary while they are in class - far above the standard S$4.50/hour Absentee Payroll. It is the cheapest way in Singapore to upskill your ops, retail, F&B and cleaning teams.
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