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HOW IT WORKS

A founder workflow, start to finish

How a founder actually uses Raise Lens week to week, with honest timings. The persona page is Raise Lens for climate founders; this is the mechanics.

Running example: a seed-stage company doing soil carbon measurement, UK-based, selling into UK and EU.

Setup, once (5 minutes)

The onboarding wizard asks for sectors, geography and stage. Our example founder picks carbon removal and climate adaptation, UK plus EU, early stage. That profile drives match scoring and the digest; it can be edited any time.

raiselens.com/#eligibility-wizard
ELIGIBILITY WIZARD

See what funding matches you

A few quick questions. We score every live grant, tender, and contract against your shape, with no signup needed to peek.

1Sectors you work in

Pick at least one sector to see your matches. Choose as many as apply.

Energy
Carbon & Atmosphere
Industry & Materials
Food, Land & Nature
Ocean & Water
Mobility
Built Environment
Adaptation
Cross-cutting
Engineering & Infrastructure

Climate-adjacent engineering: water, transport, grids, resilient infrastructure

Narrow further (optional)

Your matches will appear here.

Pick at least one sector above to see how many live calls match you.

Step 1, the setup wizard: pick sectors, geography and stage, and the match count updates live: live product surface, not a screenshot.
raiselens.com/opportunities?sector=carbon-removal
Funder programme directory
28d · 1 Dec

Environmental Impact Assessment Grant

Climate Intervention Environmental Impact Fund (CIEIF)

Grants to support predictive environmental impact assessments, impact modeling studies, and stakeholder engagement for small-scale field tests of new climate intervention technologies. Eligible applicants can receive up to $75,000 per award.

Up to $75K
Carbon RemovalInfrastructure
Step 2, the weekly pass: the running example's sector, straight from today's feed: live product surface, not a screenshot.

The weekly pass (20 minutes, or zero with the digest)

Open opportunities with the profile filters applied. With match scoring (Pro), the feed sorts by fit; the top of the list is grants and programmes tagged to your sectors and geography. Check three fields per card, in order: deadline, stage fit, organisation type. Those three kill most bad matches in seconds. Read the two-sentence summary only for survivors. Save anything worth a proper read; dismiss the rest.

Realistic yield for this profile: 2 to 5 saved records per week across grants, programmes and the occasional relevant tender. What one of those records contains, field by field: Sample unlocked opportunity.

Pro founders can skip the visit entirely: the weekly digest delivers the same triage to email, and deadline-aware alerts on saved records mean forgetting is structurally difficult.

The monthly pass: funders and signals (30 minutes)

Two additions worth a monthly slot:

  • The funder directory filtered to your sectors, sorted by recent activity. New programmes and open-to-applications changes surface here before they become listed calls anywhere.
  • The intel view for buyer-side movement. For our soil carbon founder, corporate commitments and credit retirements in removal show which buyers are actually signing, which shapes who to pitch and when.

When a deadline approaches

Saved records carry their deadlines to your dashboard. The draft generator (Pro, beta) produces a first-pass application draft from the record and your profile; it is a starting structure, not a submission, and we say so honestly.

What this replaces

The typical alternative is 4 to 8 hours weekly across portals, or a legacy subscription at several times our price that covers grants only. This workflow is under an hour a week, covers grants, tenders, programmes, funders and buyer signals, and the discovery half of it costs nothing: what Free deliberately includes.

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