Case studies
Real funding, real teams.
Dozens of teams across software, AI, energy, MedTech and industry, funded through the full range of programmes, from the Research Allowance to ZIM, EIC and EU grants. All non-dilutive, all secured end to end.
Selected results
Companies we have funded
A handful of success stories from recent years of our work. Click any one for the challenge, our approach and the result.
Artificial intelligence
Millions in allowance from in-house work alone, with zero contract research.
Read the storyClimate-tech · Web3
A full rejection overturned on appeal, with a high contract-research share recognised.
Read the storyMedTech · Manufacturing
Three projects, one funding strategy, with the production boundary drawn cleanly.
Read the storyEnergy · Blockchain
Two projects, an eligible base near €8 million, the allowance into the millions.
Read the storyBiotechnology
Mechanics, control and biology funded as one interdisciplinary R&D project.
Read the storyMobile · App
Two projects certified, one rejected: a clear lesson in what actually qualifies.
Read the storyEnterprise SaaS · Data
Two database projects cleanly separated and funded on a €4 million base.
Read the storySportsTech · Vision
Real-time computer vision on proprietary edge hardware, funded in-house.
Read the storyCybersecurity · Cloud
An unusually high contract-research share recognised in full.
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More projects we've delivered
More mandates we've carried from first call to payout, across software, deep tech, industry and energy. Names anonymised, every figure real.
Client & caseProgramSecured
ENERGY MANAGEMENTFunded an energy-management system with metering and control technology, making energy flows visible and optimisable across the site.
BAFA EEW
€70k
FOOD · PROCESS HEATBacked a switch of process heat to a large-scale heat pump, replacing fossil heat in production with a renewable source.
BAFA EEW
€600k
INDUSTRY · DECARBONISATIONBacked a process conversion that sharply cut emissions, funded through the premium track where the grant scales with the CO2 saved.
BAFA EEW
€2.5M
MANUFACTURING · EFFICIENCYFunded the replacement of compressed-air and motor systems with high-efficiency units, cutting energy use across the plant.
BAFA EEW
€120k
CLEANTECH · HARDWARESecured a grant towards scaling a clean-tech hardware product from prototype to market, with blended finance available for growth.
EIC Accelerator
€1.8M
DEEPTECH · HARDWARESecured a grant towards scaling a breakthrough hardware platform, with an equity option to fund the wider scale-up.
EIC Accelerator
€2.5M
MEDTECH · DIAGNOSTICSFunded sensor-fusion and signal-processing development for a diagnostic device, including the bench testing needed to validate a clinical-grade design.
EIC Accelerator
€2.4M
CLEANTECH · PROCESSBacked a pilot reactor and new catalyst development, funding the emissions-reducing process R&D from lab work through to a representative test environment.
EU Innovation Fund
€5M
ENERGY STORAGEBacked a grid-scale storage demonstration, funding the step from a proven concept to a representative operational scale.
EU Innovation Fund
€10M
INDUSTRIAL DECARBONISATIONBacked a first-of-a-kind low-carbon production demonstration, funding the additional cost of the emissions-reducing process.
EU Innovation Fund
€15M
BIOTECH · ASSAYSSecured funding for assay development and lab automation in a transnational project, documenting reproducible experimental work and the risk resolved along the way.
Eurostars
€460k
INDUSTRIAL IOTSecured the German share of a transnational project on predictive analytics, developed jointly with partners in another country.
Eurostars
€420k
MEDTECHSecured funding for the development of a diagnostic component within a cross-border consortium of small companies.
Eurostars
€380k
DEEPTECH · SPIN-OFFBacked a high-tech university spin-off through the pre-formation phase, funding the founder team and development work over three years.
EXIST
€430k
SPIN-OFF · MARKET ENTRYBacked a newly formed spin-off into market entry, co-funding the step from a validated research result towards a first product.
EXIST
€180k
UNIVERSITY SPIN-OFF · SOFTWAREBacked a founder team to turn a research-based software idea into a business, covering living costs, materials and coaching for a year.
EXIST
€115k
CLEANTECH · MANUFACTURINGBacked a new production plant in a structurally weak region, funding the buildings, plant and machinery behind new permanent jobs.
GRW
€3.0M
INDUSTRY · TRANSFORMATIONBacked the diversification of a metalworking site into renewable-energy components, funding the new machinery behind the move.
GRW
€700k
LOGISTICS · AUTOMATIONBacked a new automated distribution centre in an assisted region, funding the building and handling technology that created skilled jobs.
GRW
€1.8M
MEDTECH · MANUFACTURINGBacked a cleanroom capacity expansion, funding the build-out and new production lines that secured and added skilled jobs.
GRW
€1.2M
DEEPTECH · CONSORTIUMSecured a share of a multi-partner European project, funding the company's research within the wider consortium.
Horizon Europe
€1.2M
DIGITAL · CONSORTIUMSecured a share of a European collaborative project on a digital and AI capability, funding the company's research contribution.
Horizon Europe
€1.5M
HEALTH · CONSORTIUMSecured the company's funded share of a collaborative health research and innovation project across several partners.
Horizon Europe
€0.9M
MANUFACTURING · INNOVATIONFinanced a new product line and the related process innovation, bridging the gap before the investment paid back.
KfW Innovationskredite
€8M
SCALE-UP · SERIES PRODUCTIONFinanced the scale-up of an innovative product to series production with a low-interest innovation loan.
KfW Innovationskredite
€12M
SOFTWARE · DIGITALISATIONFinanced a digitalisation and platform-rebuild programme with a low-interest loan tailored to innovation and digital projects.
KfW Innovationskredite
€3.5M
BIOTECH · MEDICALFunded high-risk medical-technology research where the central question was whether the approach would work at all, not how to productise it.
KMU-innovativ
€700k
PHOTONICSFunded high-risk research on a new optical component, where the technical feasibility was the central open question.
KMU-innovativ
€450k
PRODUCTION · RESEARCHFunded cutting-edge production-technology research on a new manufacturing method with a genuinely open technical outcome.
KMU-innovativ
€600k
ART · AIDeveloped AI-based artist ranking and price prediction for modern flat artworks, built entirely on in-house research.
Research Allowance
€330k
AUDIO · SOFTWARETurned the signal-processing and DSP research behind a high-fidelity recording app into a documented claim, capturing experimentation that resolved real technical risk.
Research Allowance
€310k
BIOINFORMATICS · MLBuilt an incremental alignment pipeline and an ML reconstruction pipeline for electron-microscopy connectomics, across two projects.
Research Allowance
€130k
BIOTECH · LAB AUTOMATIONAutomated cell passaging and cultivation, integrating mechanics, control and a sensitive biological process into one reproducible system.
Research Allowance
€340k
CLIMATE · WEB3Standardised and tokenised carbon certificates on a verifiable Web3 infrastructure; a full rejection was overturned on appeal.
Research Allowance
€75k
CLOUD · SECURITYDeveloped a confidential-computing runtime that runs workloads securely in any cloud, with frontier systems research framed as audit-proof eligible work.
Research Allowance
€430k
DOCUMENT AI · OCRBuilt explainable, robust and privacy-compliant document-analysis models, turning a large multi-year body of in-house research into a single documented claim.
Research Allowance
€1.8M
ENERGYFunded a multi-year programme on decentralised-energy protocols and grid-scale systems, covering a broad base of open-source infrastructure and validation work.
Research Allowance
€1.9M
ENERGY · P2PPrototyped a peer-to-peer exchange for simulating and trading locally generated energy, covering market-simulation and protocol work with an open outcome.
Research Allowance
€1.1M
ENGINEERING · CAEBuilt a browser-based engineering-simulation platform; after two rejections a re-scoped project on real-time interactive visualisation came through on appeal.
Research Allowance
€70k
FINTECH · TOKENISATIONDeveloped the technical infrastructure for tokenised securities, with the contract-research share cleanly separated from the business model.
Research Allowance
€260k
HEALTHTECHBuilt an adaptive platform combining breath-gas analysis for metabolic measurement, documenting the experimental development behind it.
Research Allowance
€120k
INDUSTRIAL AIDeveloped robust remaining-useful-life and anomaly models from sparse, irregular sensor time series; two of three projects certified after a sharper scope.
Research Allowance
€620k
INSURTECH · HRBuilt a probabilistic simulation of individual career and compensation paths and a model for complex tariff structures, across two projects.
Research Allowance
€830k
MEDTECH · MANUFACTURINGDeveloped a laser-based joining process for thin multilayer films and a modular sterile-environment system, structured as three separate projects.
Research Allowance
€900k
METROLOGY · SENSORSDeveloped a pressure-resistant semiconductor sensor system for tight installation spaces, certified as eligible research and development.
Research Allowance
€80k
MOBILE · BACKENDBuilt a spatiotemporal backend for ephemeral, place- and time-bound content; two of three projects certified, with the pure-visualisation strand correctly left out.
Research Allowance
€700k
SOFTWARE · AIBuilt a real-time marketing-analytics platform with a custom query engine, claiming years of pipeline and performance R&D that had never been documented for the allowance.
Research Allowance
€680k
SOLAR · CLEANTECHDeveloped a physically grounded, site-adaptive model for solar yield and soiling, going beyond the standard estimation methods.
Research Allowance
€105k
SPORTSTECH · VISIONBuilt real-time computer-vision analysis for amateur sport, running reliably within the tight compute budgets of proprietary edge hardware.
Research Allowance
€380k
XR · EDTECHDeveloped an immersive VR learning experience that integrates standard 2D devices, resolving the technical uncertainty in the interaction layer.
Research Allowance
€170k
HARDWARE · IPFunded the first patent family for a novel mechanism, covering the prior-art assessment, attorney work and filing fees.
WIPANO
€17k
MATERIALS · STANDARDSTurned a new sustainable-material test method into a recognised standard together with a research partner, removing a market adoption barrier.
WIPANO
€200k
MEDTECH · IPFunded first-time patent protection for a novel device mechanism, including the value and exploitation analysis behind the filing.
WIPANO
€17k
SENSORS · STANDARDSFunded active participation in international measurement-standard committees, putting the company's method into the reference the market follows.
WIPANO
€45k
BATTERY SYSTEMSFunded battery-management and fast-charge control research, covering new chemistries and control systems developed for industrial-scale deployment.
ZIM
€280k
FOODTECH · BIOTECHFunded a novel precision-fermentation process for a functional ingredient, from a feasibility study through to the core development work.
ZIM
€250k
INDUSTRIAL IOTFunded an edge platform that runs predictive-maintenance models directly on the machine, where reliability under tight compute budgets was genuinely uncertain.
ZIM
€275k
PRECISION ENGINEERINGFunded an inline quality-inspection system that checks parts during the machining cycle, developed in cooperation with a research institute.
ZIM
€270k
ROBOTICSSecured funding for an autonomous-handling and motion-control stack, covering perception, control and integration work carried out in tandem with hardware.
ZIM
€300k
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