Our activity
FreeMind is a leading consulting firm specializing in attaining non-dilutive funding (NDF) for High-tech companies and research institutes in all technological fields. The FreeMind group employs over 70 highly skilled professionals, including analysts, project managers and professional grant-writers.
Our team is dedicated to guiding you throughout the entire funding process, from identification of the most suitable opportunities through submission and attainment of the subsequent.
Our strategy
FreeMind believes in a systematic work process that examines the needs of the company in the short and long term in conjunction with various sources of funding available to maximize potential grant opportunities.
With proven business capabilities and technology, FreeMind utilizes the knowledge and experience acquired by our talented team of grant-writers and managers to produce a methodical, step-by-step process in securing non-dilutive funding.
FreeMind has implemented and perfected this systematic process in order to understand the nature of the research and development activities of each of our clients and to custom-tailor the grant submission with the appropriate financing opportunities available.
Management of proposal preparation process
Perfect outsourcing
High success rate
The most experienced team
The leading team
Our team of consultants works to maximize the return on R&I expenses by reviewing and filtering the optimal funding channels for the company and defining the development project and submission strategy for each of the selected channels. Our professional team will help you formulate the best research and development grant strategy with full reference to the entire technological spectrum-financial, marketing, innovation, competition.
Leadership
Ishai Shamir
Director of FreeMind Israel
Ariel Shatz
VP Business Development
Eyal Schmidt
President
Inbal Mordechay
COO
Bella Sarel
Business Development Manager
Senior Project Managers
Avinoam Harris
Shani Peles
Omer Ben David
Odelia Malka
Administration
Michal Fefferman
Keren Hagian
Roma Yee
Crafting your R&D funding strategy
With the abundance of public funding sources, navigating this labyrinth may seem overwhelming. Horizon 2020 alone issues over 100 calls per year.
Each call has its own rules, guidelines, evaluators, and grant amounts.
We provide you with an overview of the funding channels and current calls in relation with your present technical capabilities and market objectives.
Advancing the funding proposal
FreeMind's project managers have extensive experience and knowledge in formulating successful grant submissions and will manage the entire grant process with you, step-by-step. Achieving success is highly contingent upon joint effort, with clients working side-by-side with FreeMind's team.
Our project managers also bring expertise in current trends in the industry and insider knowledge of the bureaucratic systems.
From initial mapping of R&D funding strategy on through submission, FreeMind provides assistance throughout the whole funding cycle.
Grant submission and reward
FreeMind recognizes the importance of innovation, and more importantly, how to effectively convey this innovation to the grant proposal evaluators.
FreeMind consultants have acquired expertise in developing grant proposals that successfully highlight the innovation of the company and the impact its products will have on the market.
FreeMind's services are not finished with the submission of the application. Additional actions are needed to receive the actual funding and, above all, to maximize its utilization.
As part of the Horizon 2020 program, a new program was launched in 2019 to assist small and medium-sized companies by financing innovative and ground-breaking research and development projects.
The EIC Accelerator Pilot offers the following:
- Business innovation grants for innovation development & demonstration purposes: an amount in the indicative range of €500K and €2,5M (70% of total cost of the project as a general rule).
- Equity of up to €15M per company (€100M total budget for equity in 2019-2020 pilot phase).
Horizon 2020 FTI - Fast Track to Innovation
This unique financing program was implemented as part of the European Union's goal of integrating more industry entities, especially small and medium-sized businesses, into the H2020 innovation framework. FTI allows for the formation of small consortiums of three to five participants for the first time, High potential for impact on European and global markets.
Grant amount: up to €3M
Additional funding programs:
H2020 FET – Open
Eurostars
IIA
BI-national funds
Industries
Medical equipment
Program
Media
Life Science
Traditional industry
Nano technology
Cyber
Infrastructure and Energy
Green Energy
Our customers
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Bella Sarel – Marketing Director
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