Whiterock AG

Secure funding

GrantPilot

🚀 Safely through the funding jungle with GrantPilot

Our GrantPilot guides you unerringly through the dense funding jungle – directly to the right funding landing sites where you can refuel with the necessary capital for your innovation. Instead of form chaos and uncertainty, you can expect a clear route, experienced guidance and a soft landing at the best grants.

Which programs fit my idea – and how do I win them over?
GrantPilot

🧭 Welcome to the GrantCockpit – your seat in the conveyor aircraft

Our GrantPilot does not fly blind – he steers with precision. And for this, it needs a reliable instrument: the GrantCockpit. Take a seat in the co-pilot’s seat, keep an eye on the course of your funding opportunities and steer your innovation safely through the funding jungle.

What the GrantCockpit can do: It clearly shows you the most relevant funding programs along the technology readiness levels (TRLs). You can see at a glance:

  • How high the grants per program can be
  • How large the program budgets are
  • Who promotes – whether locally, nationally or at EU level

This allows you to quickly find the best funding landing sites for your innovation.

Click on a program and you will be redirected to further information or directly to the program’s website.

Navigation aid

🔎 The funding database of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection

The GrantCockpit is good – but not everything. Because the funding sky is wide: there are hundreds of different programs – from local initiatives to federal programs to EU funding. To ensure that our GrantPilot doesn’t overlook any opportunities, he also uses one of his favorite navigation aids:

🔎 The funding database of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection

It is considered one of the most complete overviews of funding programs in Germany – and provides up-to-date information on grants, loans and development loans. We integrate it directly – so that you can browse for further funding landing sites at any time.

Strategy AND implementation

Our services

GrantPilot - Winning funding

Together with you, we develop a viable financing strategy and identify the appropriate funding programs – both national and European. We combine various instruments along the Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), write convincing applications and support you through to successful approval – even in a highly competitive environment.

Our contribution to your success:

  • Develop a financing strategy: Structured planning of project goals, phases and funding requirements

  • Targeted selection of funding programs: National, EU-wide and combinable along the development stages

  • Writing applications with a high chance of winning: Convincing, complete and at eye level with the reviewers

We support you in the market entry and market ramp-up of your innovation with targeted direct marketing – nationally, Europe-wide or globally. Together, we define your priority target markets and identify relevant companies and the right contacts at decision-maker level. We then get in touch with them directly, present your solution and jointly implement defined sales formats – such as pilot projects, milestone-based test phases or uptake agreements.

  • Identify target customers and decision-makers: Precise market and stakeholder analysis in your focus regions

  • Direct approach with impact: personalized communication to attract relevant first-time users

  • Winning initial customers: Pilot projects, test phases and uptake agreements with real sales and growth potential

We provide you with an experienced part-time CFO who works with you to plan, structure and implement your financing strategy from the initial idea through to market ramp-up. He or she will assume operational responsibility, ensure the targeted use of funds and ensure that the capital is used and retained efficiently until it is handed over to a CFO position to be created.

  • Establish financial architecture: Implementing processes and structures for scalable financial management

  • Secure milestone-based financing: Strategically coordinating subsidies, investor capital and follow-up financing

  • Responsible management: Ensure budget adherence and use capital efficiently until the CFO transition

We will provide you with an experienced part-time sales manager who will work with you to develop a clear market approach and go-to-market plan. He or she will define suitable formats for acquiring your first customers, test them on the market and continuously optimize them based on real feedback. Based on his experience with early adopters, he develops a scalable sales strategy – directly or via partners – for your priority target markets. He then transfers this approach in a structured way to the responsibility of a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) or a growing sales team.

  • Develop a commercialization strategy: From initial customer approach to scalable market entry

  • Test and optimize sales formats: Pilot models, value propositions and feedback loops

  • Establish and hand over sales: Clear structures and processes for handing over to the future CMO

Together with you, we identify the key players required for the successful commercialization of your innovation: friendly customers, innovative suppliers, creative research partners. Building on this, we design consortia and innovation networks – e.g. for Horizon Europe, EIC Pathfinder or the German ZIM program, which also involves international partners.

We take over the entire management of the network: from the application to the coordination to the commercial exploitation:

  • Identify relevant partners: Customers, suppliers, research – appropriate to technology and target market

  • Building and managing consortia: Complete management including communication, reporting and moderation

  • Ensure commercialization: preparation of market analyses, exploitation strategies and financial plans

As an EIC beneficiary (Pathfinder, Transition, Accelerator), you can benefit from two targeted services from the official EIC Service Catalogue – eligible for 50% funding via the Access+ program and 50% via your current EIC grant.

  • Amplify Friendly Customer Revenues: We identify and activate potential first-time customers in Europe – using AI-supported target customer analysis, direct contact with decision-makers and specific formats such as FOAK installations, pilot projects or uptake agreements.

  • Part-time CFO for Funding: An experienced CFO develops a funding strategy with your team, secures competitive grants with a high success rate and accompanies the implementation until the full commercialization of your innovation.

Your idea deserves the next step

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