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How to Grow Your Business with Non-Dilutive Funding
A practical guide to scaling with government grants, keeping your equity, and combining non-dilutive funding with investment. UK, EU and US, every sector.
£190m+
secured for innovators
100s
applications won
25x
average return on our fees
98%
top assessor score
What is inside
01
How it grows your business
Why non-dilutive funding is the cheapest growth capital available, and how it compounds with investment rather than competing with it.
02
The funding landscape
The major UK and European programmes, and how to sequence them as you scale from feasibility through to near-market development.
03
How bids are assessed
What assessors actually score, and why a large share of applications never reach an assessor at all.
04
Your options compared
Grants, loans, equity, revenue-based finance and R&D tax credits side by side, and what each one really costs you.
05
How GrantUp works
The structured system behind £190m+ secured, the team who run it, and the outcomes clients see.
06
Common questions
Fees, timescales, sectors, resubmissions after a rejection, and how grant funding sits alongside a raise.
Who it is for
- Founders building something genuinely novel who want to grow without giving up equity
- Teams planning to write a bid themselves, or with an AI tool, who want it assessed properly first
- Companies unsure whether the timing or the project fits an open competition
- Anyone who had a rejection or a low score last time and does not know why
In health or MedTech? Read the Health & MedTech Funding Guide or get the Grant Funding Canvas.
Want to know which grants your project could win?
Book a free consultation and we will map the open competitions that fit your stage, sector and timeline.