Learn from experts how to fund your startup

Equipping first‑time and early‑stage founders with the practical tools, mindset, and funding know‑how they need to turn a solid business idea into a fundable, launch‑ready venture.


Our courses

Fundraising Fundamentals

This course is a practical, online course for first‑time and early‑stage founders who want clear guidance on how to design, fund, and launch a viable business idea.

Sweat Equity and Bootstrapping Strategies

This course focuses on maximising your resources when capital is scarce. You'll learn how to leverage your efforts and implement bootstrapping techniques to build and grow your startup efficiently.

Pre-Seed and Early Validation Funding

This course dives into the initial stages of external funding, focusing on securing capital to validate your business idea and build early traction. You'll explore options such as accelerators, incubators, friends & family rounds, and crowdfunding.

Fundraising Fundamentals

This course is a practical, online course for first‑time and early‑stage founders who want clear guidance on how to design, fund, and launch a viable business idea.

Sweat Equity and Bootstrapping Strategies

This course focuses on maximising your resources when capital is scarce. You'll learn how to leverage your efforts and implement bootstrapping techniques to build and grow your startup efficiently.

Pre-Seed and Early Validation Funding

This course dives into the initial stages of external funding, focusing on securing capital to validate your business idea and build early traction. You'll explore options such as accelerators, incubators, friends & family rounds, and crowdfunding.

Non-Dilutive and Supplementary Funding Sources

This course explores funding avenues that don't require giving up equity in your company. You'll learn about grants, debt financing, competitions, and other creative ways to fuel your startup's growth.

Angel Investment and Seed Funding

This course focuses on preparing for and securing your first significant equity investment from angel investors. You'll learn how to assess your readiness, find and approach angels, and navigate the critical aspects of term sheets and negotiations.

Venture Capital and Growth Funding

This course takes you into the world of Venture Capital. You'll learn how VCs operate, what they look for in a Series A (and beyond) company, how to navigate their due diligence, and the implications of taking on VC investment for your growth and exit strategy.

Non-Dilutive and Supplementary Funding Sources

This course explores funding avenues that don't require giving up equity in your company. You'll learn about grants, debt financing, competitions, and other creative ways to fuel your startup's growth.

Angel Investment and Seed Funding

This course focuses on preparing for and securing your first significant equity investment from angel investors. You'll learn how to assess your readiness, find and approach angels, and navigate the critical aspects of term sheets and negotiations.

Venture Capital and Growth Funding

This course takes you into the world of Venture Capital. You'll learn how VCs operate, what they look for in a Series A (and beyond) company, how to navigate their due diligence, and the implications of taking on VC investment for your growth and exit strategy.

Why Us?

Our online courses aim to bridge the gap between innovative ideas and real-world success, drawing on our team expertise specializing in funding. Having guided countless entrepreneurs through startup financing, grant applications and business development, we saw a clear need for accessible, practical training that demystifies the complex world of entrepreneurship and startup funding.

Our mission is to empower founders with actionable knowledge, helping them avoid common pitfalls and accelerate their ventures, all while aligning with our core focus on innovation ecosystems like cleantech and digital growth.

We offer a growing variety of online courses, with most centered on business essentials such as fundraising, equity strategies, grant writing, and scaling startups, but we also explore related topics. Whether you’re a first-time founder or an established professional, our courses are designed for flexible, self-paced study to fit your entrepreneurial journey.

Our Competences

Internationalisation

We have a solid commercial network in Europe with a focus on bridging between Southern Europe, Nordics and the DACH region. We can also bridge towards the Latam market.

Scaling Companies

Although we mostly work with early-stage startups, we have seen several of our clients scale. We can support our clients in selecting the right paths and partners.

Fundraising

We bring capital to our clients. We are experts in EC funding proposals providing a comprehensive service which includes the elaboration of the funding strategy, grant writing and project management.

Innovation Strategy

Transforming research and technology into real marketable products and services is our passion. Innovation is not straightforward, choosing the right steps towards the market needs of careful analysis and industry insights.

Tech Transfer

We have worked with many European universities and their spin-offs in transforming research into business. We also give access to an interesting talent pool in technology and business development.

Business Development

We love sketching and brainstorming on business models but we also have solid expertise in providing robust spreadsheets such as business plans for investors.

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Our Instructors

All our experts have a long track record in securing both public and private funding.

Aracelia Tamariz

Aracelia helps founders go from research and prototypes to real-world impact by building smart innovation strategies, securing funding (grants and investment), and protecting what matters through IP. Today, she leads innovation funding for Life Sciences companies at Strata.

David Arias

David works with European deep-tech startups and small and medium companies helping them with fundraising and go-to-market strategies. He also works as a coach in various European acceleration and startup coaching programmes and has co- founded several startups. He is founder of Strata and Fundingtrip.com.

Martin Stanford

Martin works with deep tech companies to assess eligibility and suitability for public and private fundraising. He leads and manages a dedicated team of Funding and Innovation Consultants to secure large European grants with market-leading success rates.

Alejandra Palomino

Ex-VC, Alejandra has worked at a leading European VC focusing on the heath and quality of life sector. She holds a PhD in Pharmacology and Physiology and an MBA and is an expert in translational research projects, focusing on preclinical drug R&D and clinical research.

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