Case studies
How we win competitive grant funding
These are real, named clients of the GrantUp team. Every application is different, but the pattern is consistent: find the right call, frame the technical risk properly, and write it the way assessors score it.
£190m+
won by the GrantUp team. Below is a sample of clients happy to be named; most of our work stays confidential.
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£96,000
Recovered across in-house engineering and UK subcontracted testing
CleanTech hardware company (name withheld)
Clean tech: advanced hardware
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£218,000
ERIS claim delivered alongside Innovate UK grant funding
MedTech company (name withheld)
Life sciences: medical devices
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£142,000
Recovered under the merged scheme with no HMRC enquiry
B2B AI software company (name withheld)
AI / software: enterprise machine learning
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£50,000
£50K secured for AI fleet optimisation
EV fleet management program
Clean tech: electric vehicle fleets
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£202,900
£202.9K secured to modernise conveyancing
Conveyancing technology program
Proptech: blockchain and AI
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Award won
Highly competitive national award won
TextMine
AI / software: document intelligence
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£79,000
£79K secured for early-stage validation
Human-centric digital therapeutic platform
Life sciences: digital therapeutics
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£158,942
For Creator-Assist tool
Bronze AI
AI / software: interactive machine learning
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£199,297
For real-time eligibility assessor
RDvault
AI / fintech: R&D tax assessment
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£331,000
For AI diversity impact tool
HR Data Hub
AI / software: workforce analytics
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£174,506
For modular co-insurance platform
Aurora
Insurtech: modular co-insurance
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£495,704
For adaptable insurance product
Aurora with CodeEast
Insurtech: indirect loss insurance
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£452,654
For composite production leap
Mayku
Advanced manufacturing: composites
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£183,682
For AI-enhanced music therapy
MediMusic
Life sciences: digital therapeutics
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£322,500
£322.5K won, 10m+ patients addressable
Perioperative risk prediction program
Life sciences: clinical risk prediction
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£333,000
£333K secured for LLM-driven data platform
OdinFuse
AI / fintech: financial data
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£1,170,000
£1.17M secured for emissions reduction platform
Supply chain emissions platform
Clean tech: supply chain decarbonisation
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£699,030
For robotic polypill manufacturing
FASST
Life sciences: pharmaceutical manufacturing
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£596,670
Awarded for AI risk management
Holistic AI
AI / software: AI assurance
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Grant plus matched investment
Grant and investor funding aligned
Audiomob
AI / adtech: audio advertising
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Grant awarded
Biomedical Catalyst funding secured
Learning with Experts
Life sciences: perinatal AI
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£1,500,000
£1.5M secured with zero equity dilution
Panta
Fintech: financial infrastructure
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£350,000 match investment unlocked
Grant funding plus £350K match investment
BIRL
AI / retail tech: circular economy
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£1,000,000
£1M innovation loan secured
7bridges
AI / logistics: supply chain
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£375,000
£375K awarded; delivery accelerated by ~2 years
HiLo Maritime Risk Management
AI / safety: maritime risk
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£341,810
Smart Grant secured
Neural Voice
AI / software: conversational AI
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Phase 3 awarded
Large-scale live trials funded
Butterfly
Clean tech: indoor air quality
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Grant awarded
NIHR i4i Connect funding secured
Directed Systems
Life sciences: surgical decision support
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€2.5M
Blended finance to de-risk a new electrode chemistry
Clean energy company
Clean tech: energy storage
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£1,200,000
£1.2M collaborative award after a feasibility prototype hit its milestones
Aerospace technology company
Deep tech: aerospace
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£314,000
To fund analytical validation of a point-of-care assay
Point-of-care diagnostics company
Life sciences: diagnostics
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£305,000
Smart Grant to prove a high-risk sensing architecture
Advanced sensing startup
Deep tech: advanced sensing
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£1.4m+
More than £1.4m of Innovate UK funding across ten awards
Combine AI
AI / software: productivity AI
Read the case studyWins on this page were delivered by the GrantUp team across UK and European funding programmes. Some clients are anonymised at their request.
In their words
What clients say about working with us
“We had a really great experience working with Nathan Coles. Despite having only two weeks to write the grant, the process was very smooth and well-organised, with very fast turnaround.”
“Working with Grant Up has been an absolute pleasure. We applied for EIC Pathfinder funding earlier this year, and the support throughout was excellent. Although our application was ultimately unsuccessful, this does not detract from the excellent experience we had with the team. Their expertise, professionalism and support were outstanding, and I would happily recommend Grant Up and work with them again.”
“We engaged GrantUp to support us through the full bid-writing process for a recent Innovate UK funding application, and the experience was excellent from start to finish. Overall, GrantUp made what can be a demanding and complex process feel remarkably well organised and collaborative. We were very impressed with both the quality of the team and the professionalism of the service, and would be very happy to work with them again.”
“Would absolutely work with Anjuli and Thomas again.”
“Our grant writer, Lisa, was a force of nature. Absolutely amazing at articulating value in a way that best showcases our capabilities.”
“We applied for a Pathfinder with GrantUp and Lisa was literally a godsend. She helped us navigate consortium building, requirements, budget calculations and was a great thought partner to make sure our proposal was coherent and our reasoning really came through in the final proposal. She was very responsive and knowledgeable, I'd work with her again in a heartbeat.”
We write for the funders backing UK innovation
From Innovate UK competitions to Horizon Europe and defence innovation calls, we start from your technology and match it to the programme most likely to fund it.

Innovate UK
CR&D competitions, Launchpads and Innovation Loans
UK Research and Innovation
EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC and NIHR research funding
Horizon Europe
EIC Accelerator, Pathfinder, Transition and EIT calls
European Space Agency
Space technology and downstream applications

Advanced Research + Invention Agency
High-risk, high-reward programmes
Aerospace Technology Institute
Aerospace R&D co-funded with industry

Eurostars
International R&D-performing SME collaborations

UK Defence Innovation (formerly DASA)
Innovation for defence and security challenges
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GrantUp is an official partner of SETsquared, the university enterprise partnership behind the UK's top-ranked startup incubation network (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey). SETsquared ventures are supported by GrantUp with grant funding and R&D tax relief.
GrantUp is an official partner of Grow London Local, part of London & Partners, the Mayor of London's growth agency. London's small businesses are referred to GrantUp for grant writing and R&D tax relief support.
GrantUp is an official partner of Stotles, the public sector opportunities platform, where GrantUp supports businesses competing for government contracts and funding.
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