AutoGrant for venture funds and accelerators
Turn technical roadmaps into non-dilutive capital strategies across your portfolio.
AutoGrant helps portfolio teams connect company milestones and capital requirements to credible non-dilutive funding, evaluate whether each opportunity actually advances the business, and give founders a governed path from pursue/pass through proposal, award, milestone execution, and follow-on funding.
The company-level workflow is available today. The portfolio layer is in active development with select design partners.
Roadmap to capital
Illustrative — sample dataPortfolio company A
- MilestonePilot-scale prototype validated
- Capital requirementTest facility, materials, 9-month runway
- Non-dilutive map3 strong-fit mechanisms
- AI JudgePursue with conditions
- Next decisionConfirm the test partner before the spring cycle
Roadmap first
Funding is evaluated against the milestone the company already needs to reach.
Company-governed context
Each company keeps its own governed workspace, evidence, and documents.
Permissioned visibility
A portfolio view is designed to show only what a company shares.
Founders own the decision
Pursue/pass and submission authorization stay with the company.
The portfolio problem
Non-dilutive capital is strategic only when it advances a milestone the company already needs.
Technical founders have no shortage of funding programs to chase. The harder question is whether a specific grant, contract, research partnership, or foundation award moves the company toward a real technical, clinical, regulatory, evidence, or commercial value-inflection point.
- Founders discover opportunities opportunistically instead of against a capital plan.
- A strong keyword match can still be a bad strategic pursuit.
- Technical teams spend scarce time reshaping work around solicitations.
- Principal-investigator, research-partner, eligibility, facility, registration, and evidence requirements surface too late.
- Portfolio teams lack a consistent view of company non-dilutive funding strategy.
- Wins, reviewer feedback, evidence, and follow-on opportunities are rarely connected into one learning loop.
The goal is not to maximize the number of grants pursued. It is to use non-dilutive capital to reach the next meaningful company milestone with less distraction.
Roadmap first
Start with what the company must accomplish—then map the funding market to it.
AutoGrant can organize the company context that determines whether funding is strategically useful, not merely technically eligible.
- Technical and product roadmap
- Clinical and validation roadmap
- Commercialization milestones
- Regulatory and evidence milestones
- Technology readiness
- Capital requirements by milestone
- Timing and runway constraints
- Founders, technical team, PI, facilities, and research partners
- Prior research and evidence
- Intellectual-property context
- Customer discovery and market evidence
- Prior applications, reviewer feedback, awards, and funder relationships
Verified facts, hypotheses, planned work, and future targets stay distinguishable throughout the workflow.
Company context stays governed by the company.
Roadmap-to-funding workflow
One continuous loop from technical roadmap to follow-on capital.
- Roadmap — Capture the technical and commercial direction.
- Milestones — Define the value-inflection points the company needs to reach.
- Capital requirements — Establish what each milestone requires and when, where known.
- Funding map — Surface credible non-dilutive mechanisms against those milestones.
- AI Judge — Evaluate eligibility, topic fit, technical readiness, team, commercialization, and strategic value.
- Pursue / pass — Record the founder or leadership decision and its rationale.
- Build and submit — Requirements, evidence, owners, narrative, budget, review, and authorized submission.
- Award and obligations — Track funding, compliance, reporting, and commitments.
- Milestone execution — Connect award-supported work and evidence back to the roadmap.
- Follow-on funding — Use outcomes, feedback, and changed company state to identify the next best funding path.
Grants should conform to the company strategy—not the other way around.
Portfolio intelligence
Give portfolio teams a common view without taking operating control away from founders.
A portfolio view can surface where non-dilutive capital is most relevant, where companies are ready to pursue it, and where evidence, partners, timing, or eligibility make a pursuit premature.
| Company | Next milestone | Target window | Strong-fit paths | Pursuits | Primary readiness gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio company A | Pilot-scale prototype validated | Q1–Q3 | 3 strong-fit | 1 in build | Test-facility partner not confirmed |
| Portfolio company B | Pre-submission regulatory feedback | Q2–Q4 | 2 strong-fit | 1 in decision | Preliminary data incomplete |
| Portfolio company C | First paid deployment | Q3–Q4 | 1 strong-fit | None open | Registrations not current |
Sample companies and values. A portfolio view is designed to show only the fields a company has shared with its portfolio operator.
Portfolio visibility is designed to summarize decision-grade company data. The company team remains the owner of technical claims, commitments, applications, and submission authorization—a fund does not automatically receive source documents, drafts, financial records, credentials, or submission controls.
Other fields a company can share
- Capital requirement, where known
- Awarded capital
- Upcoming pursue/pass decisions
- Evidence and readiness gaps
Signature capability
AI Judge scores the pursuit—including whether it advances the roadmap.
The same six dimensions apply to a portfolio company as to any other applicant. For technical companies, strategic value carries the roadmap question—and execution burden is weighed inside team and facilities and strategic value rather than as a separate score.
- Eligibility
- Topic fit
- Technical merit and readiness
- Team and facilities
- Commercialization
- Strategic value
Inside strategic value
- Does the pursuit fund a milestone the company already needs to reach?
- Does it produce evidence the company needs anyway?
- Does it strengthen an agency or strategic relationship?
- Does it unlock a later funding phase?
- Does it fit the company's timing and capacity?
- Or does it create roadmap-diversion risk?
AI Judge supports a defensible pursue, pursue-with-conditions, hold, or do-not-pursue decision. It does not guarantee an award.
Two levels, one system
One operating model at the company level. One strategic view at the portfolio level.
Portfolio companies
- Roadmap-aligned opportunity discovery
- SBIR/STTR and other non-dilutive mechanisms
- Eligibility and readiness analysis
- Pursue/pass governance
- Technical and commercialization evidence mapping
- Application workflow
- Award, reporting, resubmission, and follow-on strategy
Funds, accelerators, and venture studios
- Portfolio milestone visibility
- Non-dilutive pipeline by company
- Readiness and evidence gaps
- Upcoming pursuit decisions
- Award and follow-on funding visibility
- Consistent operating discipline across companies
- Portfolio-level pattern recognition where supported
A startup remains a startup even when it belongs to a portfolio. The company runs its own AutoGrant workflow; the portfolio operator receives the visibility its role requires. AutoGrant does not produce automated investment recommendations.
Portfolio operating models
A portfolio operating model built around the work each operator actually does.
One operator or team works across multiple independent organizations. The underlying multi-organization concept is shared; the buyer experience, terminology, and permissions differ.
Venture funds, accelerators, and venture studios
- Milestone and capital-need visibility
- Non-dilutive funding coverage
- Readiness and evidence gaps
- Upcoming pursue/pass decisions
- Awarded capital and follow-on funding
- Consistent operating discipline across portfolio companies
Grant consultants and agencies
- Governed client context
- Opportunity qualification
- Client pipelines
- Requirements and delivery workflows
- Approvals and submission readiness
- Reporting and renewal visibility
In both models, each organization keeps its own governed AutoGrant context. A consultant may be directly engaged to operate inside a client’s grant workflow; a fund or accelerator receives the portfolio visibility and company-level access explicitly permitted.
Design partners
Build a portfolio funding strategy around the companies you already support.
AutoGrant is extending its startup and R&D workflow so technical milestones, capital requirements, non-dilutive opportunities, pursuit decisions, awards, and follow-on funding can live in one connected operating model. We are working with select venture funds, accelerators, venture studios, and portfolio operators to shape the portfolio layer around real company workflows.
What is available today
- The company-level workflow: discovery, AI Judge, requirements, evidence, drafting, review, authorized submission, and post-award stewardship.
- First-class milestones, capital requirements, and the cross-company portfolio view are in active development with design partners.
- Design-partner programs can be operated in AutoGrant-managed environments with governed organization boundaries. Customer-controlled deployment is evaluated under Enterprise.
Venture funds and accelerators
Frequently asked questions
Start with one company milestone and one real opportunity.
Bring a portfolio company's next milestone and a public funding opportunity, and see how AutoGrant evaluates whether the pursuit advances the roadmap.