GAEU Consulting Offer
From our knowledge hub GAEU Horizon Europe Centre of Excellence, we advise innovative growth companies all across Europe on how to successfully apply for EU funding. From our Corporate Finance department, we assist Swedish tech companies with private capital raising, preferably in conjunction with applications for EU funding.
You can trust our expertise. We have the longest reference lists in Europe of clients who have successfully applied for prestigious EU grants and other types of growth financing, including Horizon Europe, EIC Accelerator, Eurostars, Vinnova grants, or EIB Venture Debt.
We deliver quality. Our EU applications pass several stages of quality control before they are submitted to relevant authorities.
We are experts. In our team, you will find seasoned businessmen, venture capital investors, financial managers, project managers, scientists, and EU funding professionals. The team includes people with PhD and business degrees from top universities and business schools.
GAEU Consulting Offer
Corporate Finance for Unlisted SMEs
The specialty of our Corporate Finance department is a unique ability in the raising of private capital combined with competitive applications for EU grants or other public funding. This often involves strategic advice on how to optimize the business case and subsequently transforming it into an attractive investment case. This allows our clients to achieve their business goals faster and with lower risk while minimizing dilution effects.
Grant analysis and project positioning
We will analyse your project, position your innovation on the TRL (Technology Readiness Level), MRL (Market Readiness Level), and SRL (Sustainability Readiness Level) scale and identify the most suitable and relevant funding option available on the market, exploring national and European funding programmes.
Grant & Equity applications within EU Funding
We prepare the funding application that stands out, with a strong focus on the scientific merits, business, and financial dimensions of your business case. The application is developed to meet the requirements of the most demanding project assessment criteria in EU funding and venture capital.
Loan and venture debt funding
We deliver loan and venture debt applications and guarantee support during discussions with banks and subsidiaries. Our services are based on high quality financial modelling. We deliver loan and venture debt applications and support our Clients through the due diligence process and contract negotiations with the banks and other funding bodies. The services include the development of professional financial models and business plans.
Advisory Services
We provide strategic consultancy support during all stages of proposal development, including alignment of the project with the requirements of the call, consortium structuring, application text review, budget consultation, development of consortium agreement, and grant agreement negotiation.
Project reporting
We deliver assistance in project reporting and navigate our clients through this process. We support preparation of financial and technical project reports.
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Most popular EU Funding Instruments
Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe is the EU's key funding programme for research and innovation, with a budget of €95.5 billion. The majority of funding schemes target top-class international consortia where partners co-develop ground-breaking technologies that boost the EU’s competitiveness and growth.
Minimum funding ticket size: 0.5 MEUR
EIC Accelerator
EIC Accelerator supports high-risk, high-reward, breakthrough projects pursued by European SMEs with ambitions for fast international growth. Different funding options available: grant first, grant only, blended funding (grant + equity investment). Three-stage application process: Step 1 proposal (continuous submission), Step 2 proposal to defined cut-offs, interview.
Grant: EUR 0.5 to EUR 2.5 million Equity Component: EUR 0.5 to 15 milion
Women TechEU
Women TechEU is a part of the European Innovation Ecosystems work programme of Horizon Europe. Program is directed to women applicants who must have founded or co-founded an early-stage deep-tech start-up, and have to hold a top management position (CEO, CTO, COO or CFO) in the company. The company must be registered and established in an EU Member State or Associated Country for at least six months at the time of the submission.
Individual grant of: EUR 75 000
Eureka
Eureka is the global public network for cooperation in R&D and innovation. It facilitates financing of collaborative R&D projects in a broad variety of fields, including life sciences, ICT, green-tech, and engineering projects. Eureka includes 48 countries in Europe and beyond who provide national funding to organisations who apply through Eureka programmes.
Funding: from EUR 200k per project
Eurostars
Eurostars is the largest international funding programme for SMEs that aim to collaborate on R&D projects that create innovative products, processes or services for commercialisation. The Eurostars project requires a consortium of at least two partners from two different Eureka network countries. Partners can include SMEs, large companies, universities, and research centres.
Grant: EUR 500k
EIB funding
EIB offers a broad variety of funding instruments, including loans, venture debt, or guarantees in support of SMEs or mid-caps. EIB targets companies with strong and sustainable business models, professional management team, and established corporate governance. The projects need to support the implementation of European policies and have a clear European dimension.
Large tickets – EUR 7.5M – EUR 50M
EIT Health
EIT Health manages a number of programs that offer SMEs and start-ups opportunities to learn new skills, connect with venture investors, broaden their industry network, and access new markets. Examples of popular programs include “Investor Network” which connects qualified companies seeking early-stage funding with the first pan-European consortium of more than 80 healthcare investors, or “EIT Health Bootcamps” which runs incubation programs for start-ups.
Life
The LIFE programme is the EU's funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The most interesting offer to businesses is funding to large-scale demonstration projects that pilot new ground-breaking technologies and processes with clear positive environmental impact. Examples of relevant fields include circular economy, waste management, water preservation, etc.
Grant: EUR 3-5 million
Vinnova
Vinnova is Sweden’s innovation agency that funds research and innovation projects that can benefit society. The programs include single applicant funding schemes, as well as funding directed towards value-adding consortia of partners and stakeholders from industrial value chains.
Grant: EUR 0.2-2 million
Swedish Energy Agency
The Swedish Energy Agency supports research and development projects in the fields of supply, conversion, distribution and use of energy. Funding is also provided to development of new green and sustainable technologies and processes.
Grant: EUR 0.4-5 million