Comcast Innovation Fund

Deadline: Continuous

The Comcast Innovation Fund offers funding for researchers at leading academic institutions and elsewhere to support research that is of mutual interest to Comcast and the research community. It also provides funding to support open source software development. While Comcast has supported this kind of work for many years, we are now doing so in a more strategic way.

The Comcast Innovation Fund is focused on Internet technology R&D and Open Source Internet software.

Types of Grants:

Open Source Development Grants
General and Target RESEARCH GRANTS
Useful & Interesting Things Grants

Areas of Interest:
We are broadly interested in things that make the Internet run or that aid in the stability, scalability, and health of the Internet.

Top Themes of Interest for 2022

Internet Consolidations & Mechanisms for De-Centralization
Internet Measurement
Encryption of data & network protocols, certificate & key management
CDNs and Video Streaming Efficiency including encoding improvements
Low Latency Networking
Multi-Path Networking
Security and Privacy design, automation, privacy enhancements & confidential computing for devices, systems, cloud, and microservices as well as topics like differential privacy.
De-centralized Data & Identity
De-centralized Anomaly Detection
Internet core services such as DNS and Routing

Duration

one year

Funding

Upper: $150,000USD

Comcast does not anticipate individual grants exceeding $150,000. They only support one-year projects. Comcast will sometimes consider multi-year projects but will only fund one phase at a time with no guarantee of continued funding.

Eligibility

Grant funds are available globally to researchers both within and outside the U.S.

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Contact

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