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Last year's winners

Last year's winners, and what the funding did

More than a thousand businesses entered last year's grant competition. Twenty were selected and funded — these are the ones.

$46M

Grant capital paid to the winning twenty

20

Winners funded last year

1,140

Entries scored in last year's round

82

Average score of a winning business

The winning cohort

Meet last year's funded businesses

Amara Okafor

Founder & CEO

PayFlow

“We had twelve months of runway and a deck nobody read twice. The assessment told us the model was the problem, not the slides. Six weeks later we closed our angel round.”

PayFlow arrived with strong payment volume but revenue concentrated in a single merchant. Coaching rebuilt the pricing model, diversified the customer base and turned raw transaction data into a growth story investors could underwrite.

  • Revenue model rebuilt around recurring SaaS fees
  • Merchant concentration reduced from 71% to 28%
  • Closed a 14-investor angel round
84Score

Grant awarded

$1.2M

Dhruv Menon

Co-founder

TerraYield

“Our first score was 54. That number stung, but it was the most useful feedback we ever got. We knew exactly what to fix, in what order.”

TerraYield had a working product and no financial model. We rebuilt their unit economics, mapped a credible three-year projection and prepared them for grant and blended-finance conversations rather than pure equity.

  • Three-year financial model built from field data
  • Unit economics proven per hectare
  • Secured blended grant and equity funding
79Score

Grant awarded

$750K

Lena Fischer

Founder

Nura Health

“The pitch rehearsal was brutal in the best way. Every hard question an investor could ask had already been asked in that room.”

Nura Health already had traction and a strong clinical story, but the narrative was buried under technical detail. We restructured the pitch around patient outcomes and prepared the team for diligence on regulatory risk.

  • Seeded round oversubscribed within five weeks
  • Diligence pack completed before first meeting
  • Clinical outcomes led the investor narrative
91Score

Grant awarded

$2.4M

This year's top 20 could include you

Every past winner started by submitting an entry and getting scored.

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