You develop the future for us.We write your funding applications.
3.5 million companies in Germany develop our future every day. We make sure that funding applications don't cost them time and that cash flow becomes less of a problem. You develop products and services. We take care of the applications.
Non-binding estimate – no guaranteed entitlement.
Build your innovations. Without the hassle!
You develop new products, software and processes to make a difference. Not to write funding applications. We make sure the research allowance costs you no development time and is done simply and quickly.
- A personal contact for any question you have.
- Fast applications backed by broad experience.
- Simple documentation through our AI platform.
- No financial risk thanks to the fundloop price guarantee.
- Data security as our top priority.
Saves time and nerves: this is how your research allowance runs (almost) by itself with fundloop
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Non-binding assessment
Our R&D consultants get into your project, check whether it qualifies and estimate the potential – often there is more in it than you think. Free and without obligation.
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Assessment & preparation
We get your innovation to the point. We handle the technical and formal write-up against the Frascati criteria in full and file it with the BSFZ. Your effort: one interview and some input.
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Documentation & AI
Track your effort in no time. The fundloop portal converts hours and salaries into eligible costs, the AI reads your receipts – you simply confirm. Nothing left to reconstruct at year-end.
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Claim and payout
The payout runs through your tax office: the allowance is offset against your income or corporate income tax and any surplus is refunded. Our R&D report gives your tax advisor exactly the figures required – documented in line with GoBD.
Less paperwork. More time for research and development.
With fundloop the funding application almost takes care of itself. You build innovations. We handle the eligibility criteria, the timesheets and the invoices – guided, traceable and audit-proof.
Step by step to the application
Your R&D consultant guides you through the fundloop portal, from your company profile through your development projects to the finished application documents. You can see what comes next at any time.
- Guided onboarding instead of a maze of forms.
- Progress visible per section, open items named.
- Set up once, carried forward year after year.
SME classification under the GBER
Whether you qualify as an SME decides your funding rate – 35 % or only 25 %. The portal derives that status from your figures and structures instead of simply asking you for it.
- Classification from headcount, turnover and balance sheet total.
- Shareholdings count: partners pro rata, linked enterprises in full.
- If a figure is missing, it is flagged as “cannot be determined” and our consultant steps in – nothing is guessed.
Time tracking that does the maths
You enter project hours in the calendar – click the days, assign the working time, done. From those hours the portal calculates the eligible personnel costs.
- Full day, half day or your own value.
- Public holidays for your federal state are built in automatically.
- Gross salary and employer contribution in proportion to project hours.
Upload a receipt, the data is there
You upload invoices and the portal reads out the invoice number, contractor, payment year and net amount. Nothing is adopted automatically – you confirm it.
- Scanned receipts and photos via text recognition too.
- The suggestion sits next to the original – check, correct, confirm.
- AI processing runs through a European provider.
Technical depth from 15 years of development work with German SMEs.
Development is demanding enough. Securing the funding for it should not be.
For fifteen years our team has been working with companies on new products under the Entwurfreich brand. More than 300 projects have come out of that, and in every one of them we developed alongside our clients – on concepts, on prototypes, on designs, together with the teams that build the product in the end.
We have completed several ZIM projects with partners from the Mittelstand and supported a KMU-innovativ project. We applied for the research allowance for our own company and answered every query from the authorities until the decision came through. The software behind fundloop is our own work as well.
We do not come from consulting, we come from running businesses. We carry the same responsibility as our clients – for staff, for liquidity, for decisions whose consequences we carry. So when we talk about funding, we talk about what matters: what it costs, what it returns and when the money arrives.
That is where fundloop came from. Anyone who has stood at the test rig themselves recognises the point where engineering turns into research – and can document it so that the authorities recognise it too.
Together we make funding simpler. Together we move development forward.
Simon Gorski, Managing Director
What is in it for you?
Application texts, timesheets, calculations: fundloop handles all of it – automated, transparent, simple. So you can focus on what you set out to do: the innovations of tomorrow.