Know which EU grants your startup qualifies for – before reading any of them.

It happens, especially for very early-stage companies (pre-TRL 3) or companies in geographies with thinner program coverage. We tell you exactly which conditions you don't pass and what would change to unlock programs — for example: "reach TRL 5 from current TRL 3", or "add 1 customer LOI to qualify for EIC Accelerator". For some founders, the most useful outcome of Grant Fund is finding out that grants aren't the right path right now — that saves 6 to 12 weeks of misdirected effort on the wrong route.

If your first scan returns zero or only "not yet" programs, you can cancel before paying anything. The Passport itself is free. We've seen a few cases where founders thanked us for the "no, not yet" verdict — they would have spent the next quarter pursuing a program that wasn't admissible, and our 4-minute check let them redirect that quarter to product.

Every "yes/no" in your fit report links to the exact text of the program's official call. You can verify each check yourself in the EU portal — and we recommend you do for the first three programs. A consultant gives you opinions that depend on their reading of the call. We give you a deterministic check against published criteria. Both have value.

The difference: consultants cost €1,500–€4,000/month and start with a sales call. We cost €149 and start with a 4-minute Passport. If you eventually decide you need a consultant for proposal writing, that's a separate decision — we can refer you to specialists we trust.

Within 60 seconds of submitting your Passport, you see your first scan: a fit report with eligible programs, "not yet" programs (with what would unlock them), and a summary of why ineligible programs were filtered out. The fit report is fully visible and exportable. There's no paywall on the first scan.

You decide afterward whether to subscribe for ongoing access — weekly Monday Radar, readiness tracking on each program, full Negative Match Memos. If you don't subscribe, you keep your Passport export and the first scan. We don't email you to upgrade.

Yes for all 27 EU member states (national agencies + ~120 regional programs). We currently don't cover UK Innovate, Switzerland Innosuisse, Israel Innovation Authority, or non-EU jurisdictions — those are on the public roadmap for Q3 2026.

If your country is missing or thinly covered, write to founder@grantfund.eu. We prioritize coverage based on demand from real users, not country size.

No. Your Passport is private. We don't use it to train models, share it with third parties, or sell it. It's EU-hosted (Frankfurt). You can export everything we hold on you as JSON or PDF anytime from your account page, and deleting your account takes effect immediately — access is revoked at once and all personal data is permanently erased within 90 days. Technical IP and location logs are anonymised on a rolling schedule, not kept indefinitely.

If you have specific data residency or compliance requirements — for an investor or due-diligence process — email us, and we'll send our DPA and security overview.

No. Grant Fund stops at "you're eligible, here's what's missing for a clean submission". For proposal writing, you have three options:

• (a) draft yourself using public templates from the EC and national agencies (we link to these)
• (b) hire a specialist for proposal-only support (typical: €5,000–€15,000 per submitted application)
• (c) work with a consultancy retainer for ongoing strategy plus writing (€1,500–€4,000/month)

We can refer you to vetted EU grant writers we've seen produce strong work. We don't take referral fees.

Group4Grant and GrantsFinder start at €29–65/month — search engines that rank programs by keyword relevance. Subsidies.io starts at $99/scan or $500/year for Netherlands-focused coverage. Grantable starts at $50/month for US foundation grants. Each does one piece well. None do all three of: 7-criteria formal eligibility check + readiness tracking + 3-layer EU coverage (EU central + 27 national + ~120 regional) in one self-serve product.

Closest comparable in scope is Cogrant — hybrid consultancy with algorithmic screening — but they don't publish prices and start with a sales call. €149 is what it costs to keep Grant Fund self-serve, sales-call-free, and run by a team small enough to know every customer. If you're already paying for a consultant or losing 4+ hours a week to manual search, €149 is the smaller bill, not the bigger one.

Then you cancel without it. Cancellation goes through normally: your access continues until end of month, no retention loops, no calls, no emails. Your last month's payment stays with us. The 20-minute call is the path to a refund — it's not a path to keeping your subscription. If the conversation isn't interesting to you, the cancellation works the same way without it.

Both options exist on purpose. We picked this structure because we'd rather lose €149 to learn what didn't work than refund automatically and stay confused about why people leave.

The Passport walks you through the standard EU TRL definitions (TRL 1–9), with a one-line description and one example for each level. If you're between two levels, set TRL to the lower one — most programs anchor eligibility on the lower bound, so the conservative setting expands your options rather than narrowing them.

You can edit your TRL anytime; rescans are unlimited and free for subscribers. If you're truly unsure (TRL 4 vs 5 is a common confusion for hardware founders), we have a free TRL self-assessment guide built into the Passport flow — no signup beyond the Passport itself.

Full public roadmap with current development progress and a feedback form is at grantfund.eu/roadmap. We don't promise dates we can't hit. If something is on the roadmap, it's because we're building it — not because it's a marketing line.