Bronx, N.Y. – – November 03, 2026 -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to a multi-institutional team led by Julio A. Aguirre-Ghiso, Ph.D., of Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC). The money will fund research into the biological processes behind breast cancer relapse and into ways to predict and prevent recurrence.

BOSTON – November 03, 2026 -- Jobs for the Future (JFF) has launched a $40 million fund that pays Registered Apprenticeship sponsors up to $6,000 per new apprentice in the semiconductor, nuclear energy and "Super Intelligence" infrastructure sectors. The fund is financed 100% by the U.S. Department of Labor.

London – November 03, 2026 -- PRIMA founder Alexander Zhardanovsky has pledged £10 million across 2027-2028 to expand the CC (Climate Change) Investment Forum globally, under a Letter of Intent signed with forum founder Max Studennikoff.

Bonn – November 02, 2026 -- Deutsche Krebshilfe is funding six research projects with a total of €3.1 million over three years to examine how social inequality shapes cancer care and what financial damage a diagnosis causes. The new priority program, "Krebs und Armut" (Cancer and Poverty), targets a gap the charity describes as insufficiently researched.

OAKLAND – October 30, 2026 -- The PG&E Corporation Foundation is awarding $500,000 to five community organizations in Northern and Central California, completing a five-year, $2.5 million investment in 25 organizations through its Better Together Nature Positive Innovation Grant Program.

FONTAINEBLEAU, France – October 30, 2026 -- INSEAD has received US$3 million in funding from Google.org and Google DeepMind to establish the Research Lab for Human and Organisational Thriving (INSEAD Thrive Lab), a unit that will study how people and organisations function amid continuous technological change.

Somerville – October 28, 2026 -- Greentown Labs Boston has opened applications for the second year of its First Valley Fellowship, which gives selected Massachusetts climate and energy founders $50,000 in non-dilutive funding and six months of support to move from proof of concept to first prototype. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) funds the stipends, and the Barr Foundation also supports the program.

New York – October 28, 2026 -- Ibis, an onchain credit platform, has emerged from stealth with a $250 million credit facility from FalconX, giving eligible crypto trading firms institutional credit capacity from launch. The company also closed its pre-seed round, led by FalconX alongside investors and executives from digital assets, institutional credit, capital markets and financial infrastructure.

New York – October 28, 2026 -- Dallas-based Firehawk Defense announced a $150 million funding round and said it expects to become the largest U.S. producer of artillery motors by the end of 2027, according to the NYSE's pre-market update delivered by Kristen Scholer.

Firehawk plans more than 100,000 artillery motors next year

The startup will use the proceeds to expand its Great Plains Arsenal in Oklahoma and an integration facility in Mississippi. Firehawk targets output of more than 100,000 artillery motors next year.

FREDERICK, Md. – – October 28, 2026 -- CellectGen has secured Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding to develop a saliva-based, point-of-care diagnostic for periodontal disease, targeting early detection of active tissue destruction. The company is building the platform with reagent supplier Kemp Proteins and lateral-flow developer DCNDx.