For startups & innovators
From Idea to Funded Development
Have an innovative product or technology but don’t know how to develop and finance it? We help turn promising ideas into structured development projects — combining technical expertise, development planning and funding strategy.
We help structure and coordinate the development journey and connect the expertise required for the project. No funding outcome or project success is promised.
Funding is only part of the journey.
A strong innovation project needs more than a funding call. It needs a credible development plan, the right technical expertise, realistic milestones and a clear path towards validation and market readiness.
FundingBoard helps connect these elements into one structured development journey.
Idea & Feasibility Assessment
Evaluate the technical concept, innovation potential, market relevance and major development risks.
Development Roadmap
Define development stages, TRL progression, technical milestones, validation activities and indicative development costs.
Funding Strategy
Identify suitable European, national, regional and Cascade Funding opportunities and determine the most realistic funding path.
Development Expertise
Help identify and coordinate the technical expertise needed for product development, prototyping, engineering, materials, manufacturing, testing and validation.
Partner & Consortium Building
Identify potential technology, research and industrial partners where the project requires additional capabilities.
Proposal & Project Support
Support the project from initial Go/No-Go assessment through proposal preparation, expert review and, where appropriate, implementation planning.
How it works
- 1
Tell us about your idea
Submit a short description of the product, technology or innovation you want to develop.
- 2
Go / No-Go Assessment
We assess technical feasibility, innovation potential, development maturity and potential funding fit.
- 3
Development & Funding Roadmap
For promising projects, we define the technical development path, required expertise, indicative budget and suitable funding strategy.
- 4
Build the project
Where needed, we help connect and coordinate the technical, research and industrial capabilities required to execute the development.
- 5
Fund and move towards market
We support the funding journey and help structure the project towards validation, demonstration and commercialisation.
Development activities may be delivered together with specialised technical, research and industrial partners. FundingBoard does not perform every technical development activity internally.
Entry-level service
Startup Go / No-Go Assessment
A structured first look at your idea: is it technically credible, sufficiently differentiated and realistically fundable — and what would you need to do next?
This is an initial assessment of your idea. It is not full consulting, development work or proposal preparation.
AI-assisted analysis is complemented by human expert judgement. Assessments are independent and support decision-making; they do not guarantee funding decisions.
Startup Go / No-Go Assessment
€290
- Initial technical feasibility assessment
- Innovation and differentiation review
- TRL assessment
- Funding potential assessment
- Key development risks
- Recommended next steps
- Initial Go / No-Go recommendation