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What's new on Raise Lens, May 2026

By Andrew Holden

35 new opportunities landed in the Raise Lens database over the past 30 days: 15 grants, 10 tenders, and 10 subcontracts. These are brand-new programme listings, not refreshed deadlines on existing entries, so if you run regular searches you may not have seen any of them yet. Below is a sector-by-sector breakdown of what's worth your attention and why.

New grants worth a look

A mixed bag this month: the largest headline numbers sit in growth-stage venture funds that are technically tagged as grants in the database but function more like institutional equity pools. We've flagged those clearly. The more accessible opportunities are the multilateral and development-finance entries.

UKRI's £55 billion R&D commitment

  • UKRI Gov, rolling deadline, amount: See listing. The £55 billion R&D funding boost is a headline programme rather than a single call, which means the useful move here is to identify which UKRI councils and Innovate UK competitions sit underneath it. Clean energy, grid modernisation, hydrogen, carbon capture, and climate software all fall within scope. If you're an early-stage UK tech venture with a TRL-4-and-above product, this umbrella is where you should be spending time on sub-programme research.

Clean Technology Fund, World Bank / CIF

  • World Bank Climate Investment Funds (CIF), rolling deadline, amount: See listing. The Clean Technology Fund deploys concessional finance into low-carbon demonstration and deployment projects in developing countries. Sectors in scope: renewable energy, grid modernisation, energy storage, industrial decarbonisation, sustainable buildings, and electric mobility. Access typically runs through accredited national implementing entities, so if you're working in-country in an eligible recipient nation, the practical route is identifying your national implementing partner first.

Advancing Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa (AICCRA)

  • World Bank IDA, rolling deadline, amount: $5.0M to $210.0M. The AICCRA project received an additional $40 million IDA grant allocation, with funding targeted at validating and scaling climate-smart agriculture practices across Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, and Zambia. If you operate in any of those six countries in agri-tech, livestock, or climate-resilience advisory, this is the most geographically specific opportunity in this month's batch and worth reading the full listing for eligibility routes.

Impact Driven Finance, SNV

  • SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, rolling deadline, amount: See listing. SNV's Impact Driven Finance mechanism is oriented towards bridging what SNV describes as a $2.5 trillion climate and development financing gap in the Global South. The programme supports innovative finance structures (blended finance, guarantees, concessional capital) rather than conventional project grants. If your organisation structures deals or provides financial advisory in developing markets, this is a less obvious but potentially high-value route.

Energy Impact Partners, European Fund

  • Energy Impact Partners, rolling deadline, up to $429,000,000. The European Fund targets climate-tech ventures across Europe working on net-zero transition. Sectors covered span renewable energy, storage, grid, hydrogen, industrial decarbonisation, electric mobility, and climate software. At $429M this is institutional venture capital in structure, so it is most relevant if you are at a stage where you're raising a formal growth round and want a strategic climate-focused LP or lead. Worth flagging to your fundraising team rather than your grants writer.

Clean Hydrogen Infrastructure Fund, HY24

  • HY24, rolling deadline, amount: See listing. The Clean Hydrogen Infrastructure Fund sits firmly in the infrastructure investment bracket, targeting mature hydrogen production and distribution projects across Europe, Asia-Pacific, North America, and MENA. HY24 targets projects capable of absorbing €20Bn+ in capital deployment collectively, which signals this is not an early-stage vehicle. Relevant if you are a project developer with operational assets looking for infrastructure equity.

Tenders and contracts

All five new tenders this month originate from Colombian public buyers, a concentrated batch reflecting active procurement cycles in Colombia's energy and environmental management sectors. Estimated values are denominated in Colombian pesos in the source data; USD conversions at current rates produce the figures below, so treat these as directional rather than precise.

  • RAPE Región Central, est. value ~$67.5M USD. Ecological restoration and watershed connectivity in the Río basin. Scope covers participatory conservation, ecosystem connectivity, and integrated water resource management. Relevant for environmental consultancies and restoration contractors with Latin America presence.

  • GECELCA S.A. E.S.P., est. value ~$49.4M USD. Small-scale rooftop solar PV systems (1.5kW nominal capacity, grid-connected) for the Colombia Solar programme. Procurement of solar autogeneration solutions at scale.

  • Departamento del Atlántico, est. value ~$6.8M USD. Environmental management and climate adaptation strategies for the Atlántico department, including biodiversity, water, and reforestation components.

  • GECELCA S.A. E.S.P., est. value ~$5.6M USD. Staffing and workforce supply services for the Colombia Solar programme execution. Labour-supply contract rather than technical services.

  • Asociación de Autoridades Tradicionales Wayuu SAINMAA WAYUU, est. value ~$4.7M USD. Individual solar PV solutions in rural and dispersed zones in Ciénaga, Magdalena. Procured through an indigenous authority body, worth noting for organisations with community energy deployment experience and the requisite local partnerships.

Subcontracts and partner programmes

This month's subcontract feed is dominated by a single prime, DT Global, running multiple open calls across Pacific development programmes. All five are conventional subcontracts rather than accelerators or challenge funds.

All 35 opportunities are live and filterable by sector, geography, and opportunity type at /opportunities. If you work in a specific sector and want to narrow the view, the sector pages let you cut straight to what's relevant without scrolling through the full feed.