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ActiveQualcomm Technologies, Inc. · 2026

2025 Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators

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Agency: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Funding: Varies
Deadline: Check Source
Status: Active
Eligibility: Eligible participants as defined in the official rules.

About This Grant

2025 Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators is a grant and accelerator program from Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. that funds professional developers and startups building on-device AI applications using Qualcomm's platforms in the Asia-Pacific region. The program supports innovators designing AI solutions across sectors including education, healthcare, retail, and enterprise technology.

Participants submit a proposal and accept the official program rules to enter the selection process. Selected innovators receive technical support, engineering resources, and access to Qualcomm's go-to-market ecosystem. Note that as of 2026, applications for the 2026 APAC edition are currently open through April 30, 2026.

Award specifics vary by cohort and region.

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# Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators 2025 – APAC [](https://www. qualcomm. com/) * Application and selection # Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators 2026 Application & Selection Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators 2026 - APAC is open for registration from now until 30 April 2026.

The process of applying is simple. Just fill out the registration form with all the required information, read and accept theofficial rulesfor Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators 2026, and submit your proposal along with all required information. There is no entry fee or additional step needed to apply.

The program is open to any startup company incorporated and registered in Japan, Singapore, or South Korea. Qualcomm Technologies will consider every proposal based on its merits, weighing a variety of factors such as innovative use cases of Edge AI technologies, relevance to regional needs, social or practical impacts of the proposed solution and business potential.

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com/) Qualcomm relentlessly innovates to deliver intelligent computing everywhere, helping the world tackle some of its most important challenges. Our leading-edge AI, high performance, low-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity deliver proven solutions that transform major industries. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress.

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References to "Qualcomm" may mean Qualcomm Incorporated, or subsidiaries or business units within the Qualcomm corporate structure, as applicable. Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio.

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering, research and development functions, and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. Nothing in these materials is an offer to sell or license any of the services or materials referenced herein.

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Eligibility Requirements

Eligible participants as defined in the official rules.

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Who funds 2025 Qualcomm AI Program for Innovators?

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