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 113 →Grant in United States: Climate adaptation projects, up to $115K, closes 20 Nov 2026
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Funding and technical assistance for community-based climate resilience and adaptation projects in highly vulnerable U.S. communities, prioritizing historically disinvested populations. Requires partnership between a community-based organization, local/regional government, and a Registry-listed adaptation practitioner.
UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge, 5th Call: Marine Pollution Reduction, Coastal and Marine Ecosystem restoration and Sustainable Blue Economy
UNDP Ocean Innovation Challenge (funded by Sida)
Funds implementation-ready private sector solutions that reduce marine pollution, restore coastal and marine ecosystems, and advance a sustainable blue economy in Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, or Viet Nam. Open to registered startups, SMEs, companies and social enterprises worldwide, with deliverable-based contracts of up to USD 100,000 per selected innovator.
Grant in the EU and EUROPE: A European Blue Economy Partnership 4th Joint Transnational Call, closes 16 Nov 2026
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This is a transnational research and innovation call supporting 36-month projects across blue economy transition, digital sea-use management, sustainable bioresources, and coastal resilience. Consortia from at least three participating countries and three funding organisations can apply.
GroundWork: Regenerative living labs to improve soil ecosystem functions by adapting agricultural land use with livestock integration open call (EU financial support to third parties)
European Commission (Horizon Europe)
GroundWork is a Horizon Europe open call that provides financial support to third parties to set up regenerative living labs testing livestock integration and land-use changes that improve soil ecosystem functions. It targets agricultural stakeholders, researchers and organisations across Europe able to run regenerative farming pilots; the €891,000 figure is the total call budget, not a per-project award.
Grant in worldwide: Compute for Climate Fellowship, up to $200K, closes 23 Nov 2026
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A global R&D fellowship programme that provides cloud computing credits and technical guidance to climate and energy technology startups building proof-of-concept solutions using advanced AI and cloud computing. Eligible startups span clean energy, climate intelligence, agriculture, circular economy, carbon removal, transport, and built environment sectors.
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
NACHIP 2nd Open Call
NACHIP
This is an open call for SMEs developing innovative hydrogen solutions to join a two-tier acceleration programme and integrate into value chains around five industrial pilot projects. Grants of up to €60,000 per SME are available.
EOI - Maritime Portfolio Delivery Panel (SEA-MT-002-P4I-03)
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A panel of maritime decarbonisation advisory and delivery providers is being assembled by a delivery contractor to support infrastructure projects across Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam) under Australia's Partnerships for Infrastructure initiative. Subcontractors should have expertise in maritime decarbonisation policy, regulatory frameworks, project development, and climate-inclusive infrastructure delivery.
I3FLOAT: Developing a southern interregional value chain to consolidate european leadership in floating wind and accelerate innovation time-to-market open call (EU financial support to third parties)
European Commission (Interregional Innovation Investments)
This EU cascade-funding open call under the I3FLOAT initiative supports interregional innovation projects that strengthen the southern European floating wind value chain and speed up time-to-market for floating offshore wind technologies. It is aimed at SMEs, startups and other companies and organisations in the floating wind supply chain.
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