Europe funds innovation.
We make sure it reaches you.
Ignite Group is your full-service funding partner across Europe. We help innovation-driven companies secure public funding and keep it through realisation, reporting, and audit.
0.5 Billion
Funding realized in 2025
95%
Success rate
300+
Specialists
15,000
Funding applications in the last 5 years
25 years
Experience
Where would you
like to start?
- Build Strategic Resilience Growth resting on own funds alone is vulnerable. Non-repayable public funding secures stable growth, reduces supply chain dependency and cushions geopolitical and regulatory risk.
- Accelerate R&D and Innovation Development ties up capital long before it returns any. Research funding turns R&D work or software development from a cost block into plannable cash inflow, and protects your strategic lead.
- Optimise Your Funding Mix Knowing only one programme leaves money on the table. A planned funding mix spreads instruments across your project portfolio and turns funding into a line in the financial plan rather than a one-off.
- Stay Audit-Ready and Compliant Awarded does not mean kept. Gathering evidence only at the end of a project invites clawback. We build the evidence logic into the application and carry it through the funded period.
What funding makes possible
Wegener Härtetechnik
Wegener Härtetechnik is a specialist heat treatment service provider and is developing an innovative hardening process for applications in the automotive industry.
Turning Innovation into Predictable Cash Flow
How CFOs use public funding programmes as a strategic financial tool
The innovation Landscape for Software & SaaS Engineering Teams
Software R&D in mid-market and scale-up SaaS is shifting from features to foundations. Where the last decade rewarded velocity (ship faster, iterate faster) 2026 rewards engineering work that holds up under…
How we work
A four-phase process, from the first scan to disbursement, carried by AI-supported delivery and more than 25 years of application experience.
PHASE 1
Funding Scan
We identify the right funding programmes based on your goals, your sector and the scope of your project.
PHASE 2
Strategy & Eligibility
We build a tailored funding roadmap and check eligibility before resources are committed.
PHASE 3
Application & Submission
We prepare technically strong applications and submit them for the best possible chance of approval.
PHASE 4
Compliance & Disbursement
You stay audit-ready throughout delivery, with structured reporting and risk management.
Sectors we understand. Markets we cover.
- Digital & IT Software development qualifies more often than teams expect. What decides it is technical uncertainty, not the subject.
- Advanced Manufacturing & Engineering Automation, robotics and new production methods meet investment and development funding at the same time.
- Chemicals & Materials Decarbonisation, circular processes and new materials. The step from lab to plant is the critical point.
- Public Sector, Education & Research Rarely technical uncertainty, almost always co-financing, procurement and evidence. That shifts the emphasis.
- Energy, Environment & Sustainability Generation, storage, hydrogen and efficiency. The densest and fastest-changing funding landscape of the eight.
- Life Sciences & Health Long development cycles without revenue. The development phase decides the instrument more than anywhere else.
- Food, Agriculture & Bioeconomy Agricultural policy, innovation funding and environmental schemes interlock. The classification decides the instrument.
- Mobility & Logistics Drivetrains, charging infrastructure and connected logistics. Development and procurement follow separate funding routes.
I only need to supply the necessary documents and Ignite Group takes care of the rest. It gives us the freedom to focus on developing our technology and selling our products.
Working with Ignite Group took a great deal of pressure off us. Thanks to […] their expertise, we always felt confident that our funding application was in the best hands.
Without the knowledge of ‘grant-speak’ and the speed of action, we would never have pulled this off.
Numbers you can hold us to
The programmes your competitors
are already claiming.
Forschungszulage
A tax-based refund of up to 35% of R&D expenditure – a legal entitlement, with no competitive process. Up to €4.2 million per year for SMEs.
ZIM
Germany’s Central Innovation Programme for SMEs. Non-repayable grants of up to €690,000 for R&D projects. Open to all sectors, alone or in cooperation.
EU Innovation Fund
Funding of up to 60% for climate-neutral technologies and decarbonisation projects. Programme volume €3.4 billion.
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