Business Grant funding
Secure grant funding, accelerate your venture
With a deep understanding of the climate tech grant landscape, our grant writers submit winning applications, helping you to access further non-dilutive funding. We specialise in writing Innovate UK grants and also offer critical reviews to improve the quality of your submissions.
We also write and review Innovate UK loans for highly innovative late-stage R&D projects. Check out our handy loan application guide for more.
£14m+
Grant funding secured
80+
Climate tech clients
150+
Startups advised on grant strategy
Access non-dilutive funding for your venture
End-to-End Write
We take care of the full application and appendices through to submission on a no-win no-fee basis.
Critical Review
Gap analysis, structural analysis and constructive comments for grants you've already written at a competitive day rate.
Project Management
Leave the admin to us. We can lead on the project from inception to close, saving you valuable time.
This year, we supported Chirrup.ai with their grant submission to win a competitive Innovate UK grant.
Hear from Co-Founder, Conrad Young, on how Chirrup.ai is combatting biodiversity loss and why SV’s support is so important to climate tech startups like his.
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“Over a 12-month period, SV’s grant team won us £1.3m in funding. This was a great boost for our business. We've continued working with the team on commercial support and have made huge progress.”
Phill White, Founder & CEO at Cloud Cycle
Why work with us?
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We have an 80% success rate, with bids scoring in the high 80s out of 100
We work with well-established and highly-respected grant writing partners who honour our no win-no fee model when we refer clients to them
In the past year, we have secured our clients £4.56m in grant funding, including through our partners
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For an end-to-end grant write, we work on a success-fee only
With no up-front costs, our win-fee is calculated based on the size of grant awarded
For critical grant reviews, we offer a competitive day rate
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Become a valued member of Europe’s largest climate tech hub, with access to our network, events and industry insights
Access 12+ years of sector-specific knowledge from our expert team
When we see an interesting grant, we reach out to relevant companies within the SV ecosystem and select the most innovative ones to take on.
Seen a grant of interest to your startup? Reach out to our team.
Meet the team:
Joseph Seal-Driver
Joseph has 10+ years’ experience scaling tech businesses. Having founded an electric-car sharing platform and led an EV. charging operator, his experience now accelerates the growth of startups in the sustainability and climate space.
Lauren Pilgreen
Head of Startup Innovation
Lauren has 7 years experience in developing climate and impact ventures, with a specialism in commercialisation and BD. Lauren is as an ex-founder of a social enterprise and a current Executive MBA candidate at Bayes Business School.
Beckie Cole
Beckie leads our Grant Team in writing winning bids for climate tech clients. Beckie joined SV from the charity sector, where she specialised in securing six-figure grant funding from Trusts and Foundations.
Hans Jager
Hans has 10+ years in project & operations management, driving efficiency, collaboration, and goals across various verticals.
FAQs
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For an end-to-end grant write, we work on a success-fee only, calculated on size of grant awarded. For a critical review, we charge a competitive up-front day-rate.
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We don’t work on grants with a total grant value of less than £150k
We don’t work on grants where success is contingent on another party (e.g. Horizon Europe bilateral calls), or a successful interview/pitch (e.g. EIC Accelerator)
Clients must be able to evidence their ability to match fund their projects
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End-to-end writing requires a minimum of six weeks notice, to allow for four weeks of grant-writing time. Day-rate reviews require a minimum of two weeks notice, to enable clients to implement any suggested changes in good time.
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No, because our grant writing fees are not a ‘project cost’.