Raise Lens for accelerators
Every cohort asks the same question in week one: what funding is out there for us? Answering it properly per company is an analyst-week per quarter. Answering it badly is a list of expired links.
Raise Lens runs the answer continuously. One seat can hold a filter set per portfolio company: their sector, their geography, their stage. The feed does the watching; your team does the introductions.
What can I find here this week?
New this week across grants, programmes and challenge calls:
New this week
See all 19 →European partnership: Forests and Forestry for a Sustainable Future
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A European research partnership funds research, knowledge-building, and solutions to enhance forest resilience and support sustainable forest-based economies across Europe. The grant targets academic institutions, research organizations, and consortia developing evidence-based approaches to forest management, biodiversity, and climate adaptation.
FY2026 Earth System Science and Services Partnership
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This is a partnership grant supporting Earth system science research and climate services delivery for FY2026. It funds collaborative projects between federal, academic, and private-sector partners to advance climate science, monitoring, and decision-support tools.
European Partnership for a climate neutral, sustainable and productive Blue Economy
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This partnership call funds innovation and digital transformation in the blue economy to achieve climate neutrality and sustainability. It targets organizations developing sustainable, resilient, and digitally-enabled solutions for ocean and marine resource management.
Climate-smart use of wood in the construction sector to support the New European Bauhaus
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This grant supports climate-smart wood construction solutions aligned with the New European Bauhaus initiative, funding projects that advance sustainable building practices through innovative use of wood as a low-carbon material. Eligible applicants include construction firms, material innovators, and sustainability-focused organizations working to decarbonize the building sector.
Pre-project Support for Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings
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This is a pre-project support grant from a Norwegian state energy agency funding energy efficiency improvements in commercial and office buildings. The grant targets organizations planning energy retrofit or efficiency projects in non-residential buildings.
This includes other accelerator and challenge calls, which is worth knowing both for your portfolio and for tracking the programme landscape you compete in.
How would I use it?
- One saved search per portfolio company, built from their profile. Ten companies means ten URLs, each shareable directly with the founder.
- Weekly digest per search (Pro) means the triage lands in your inbox pre-sorted.
- Forward matches with the record link. The card carries deadline, eligibility bullets and a plain-English summary, so the founder can self-qualify in one read. What a full record looks like: Sample unlocked opportunity.
- Point your founders at Raise Lens for climate founders; the free tier is a real tool, and a founder who runs their own searches asks you better questions.
What does Pro unlock?
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Browse and search everything | Yes | Yes |
| Saved search + digest per portfolio company | Yes | |
| Match scoring per profile | Yes | |
| Full funder profiles for warm-intro targeting | Yes |
£50/mo or £500/year. There is no multi-seat tier yet; one seat running many profiles is the current model, and honestly it covers most accelerator use. Full split at What Free vs Pro actually unlocks.
Show me 3 real examples
Pushing the frontier of knowledge and conservation action for deep sea ecosystems
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This EU research-funding programme funds research and conservation action to advance knowledge of deep-sea ecosystems and support biodiversity protection in international waters under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. It targets consortia of research institutions, universities, and conservation organizations working on deep-sea habitat mapping, species inventories, ecological functioning, and ecosystem-based management approaches.
Supporting the delivery of actionable, integrated, and comprehensive local heating and cooling plans
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This EU environmental-funding programme grant supports the development and delivery of actionable, integrated, and comprehensive local heating and cooling plans at municipal or regional level. It funds planning, strategy, and implementation support for decarbonizing heating and cooling systems in line with EU clean energy transition goals.
Project Development Assistance for sustainable energy investments
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This is a callable grant opportunity for Project Development Assistance (PDA) supporting the development of sustainable energy investment projects under an EU clean-energy-transition funding programme. It funds organizations preparing bankable renewable energy and clean energy transition projects for implementation.
Before you put this in front of a cohort, read Accuracy and classification methodology. It covers how records are classified, scored and reviewed, including where the classifier is weakest. You should know that before your founders do.
Related
- For climate founders, the page to send your cohort
- Accuracy and classification methodology
- What Free vs Pro actually unlocks
- Carbon removal and Energy storage as examples of sector depth