SPRIND
Germany’s Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (Agentur für Sprunginnovationen) backs high-risk, high-reward breakthroughs that ordinary programmes avoid — through multi-stage Challenges and shorter Funke competitions, with intensive coaching and, since the 2023 SPRIND Freedom Act, unusual latitude to fund and invest agilely.
Funding
Staged Challenges & Funke — funding + hands-on support
Maturity
Any TRL · high-risk breakthrough / moonshot tech
Deadlines
Rolling Challenges & Funke — see live calls
Best for
Radical deep tech — AI, biotech, energy, robotics and hardware moonshots beyond what conventional funders back.
Issuing agency
SPRIND — German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation
What wins SPRIND
Your free AI review is benchmarked against exactly these.
- A genuine moonshot — radical, not incremental
- A credible path from breakthrough to real-world impact
- A team that can move fast through staged competition
- Ambition beyond what conventional grants will back
Mission control
Meet the coaches
We ship grants. We support you on your path to ACCEPT — the only outcome that counts.
Cynthia Jurytko
EIC & Innosuisse Jury Member
Senior Advisor, DeepTech Scale-ups
“Swiss startups lose millions in missed grants every year. We fix that.”LinkedIn
Dr. Klaus Fuchs
Director for Industry Collaboration
ETH AI Center
“Stop guessing what evaluators want. We show you — then help you win.”LinkedIn
Backed by a wider team of advisors and a European network of consortium partners — so we can also broker the right co-applicants for your collaborative proposal.
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