SME Passport
Empowering Startups Across the UK
For start-ups, funding Bodies and investors.
SME Passport
Empowering Startups Across the UK
For start-ups, funding Bodies and investors.
Effortless Funding Search
User-Friendly Interface
Organized Funding Calls

SME Passport
About Us
We are a team at the Science and Technology Facilities Council working on a web-platform helping start-ups to find and apply for funding. On the other hand we plan to help the investors and funding bodies to review start-ups and advertise their funding calls in an organized manner. (We believe that) funding should be fun!Â
SME Passport
About Us
We are a team at the Science and Technology Facilities Council working on a web-platform helping start-ups to find and apply for funding. On the other hand we plan to help the investors and funding bodies to review start-ups and advertise their funding calls in an organized manner. (We believe that) funding should be fun!Â

For start-ups (and SMEs)
Funding applications made quick and easy.
For Funding Bodies
Ensuring your funding calls attract the deepest pool of applicants.
For Investors
Raising your profile and matching you with investment opportunities.
Key Features of SME Passport

The Problem
For Start-Ups
Finding the right funding is difficult and applying for it is time consuming, repetitive, and boring. We aim to change that. Our sleek and intuitive platform offers you a ‘digital locker’ to store all your application documents in one secure place. The documents (text, photographs, diagrams, etc.) will be all ready to automatically populate your next application, saving you time and mental energy.Â
The Problem
For Funding Providers
Finding the strongest applicants to your funding calls can be challenging: funding calls may not reach their intended audience, and only companies with the resources to apply for funding will answer the call. By streamlining the application process for SMEs, our platform will attract a wider and deeper pool of SMEs to your calls, increasing the quality of applicants and therefore the societal and economic impacts of your funding.Â


The Problem
For Funding Providers
Finding the strongest applicants to your funding calls can be challenging: funding calls may not reach their intended audience, and only companies with the resources to apply for funding will answer the call. By streamlining the application process for SMEs, our platform will attract a wider and deeper pool of SMEs to your calls, increasing the quality of applicants and therefore the societal and economic impacts of your funding.Â

The Problem
For Investors
Making an informed decision on what companies to invest in is a science. Identifying investment opportunities in their early stage before your competitors is hard. Keeping track of companies under review and companies invested in so far is daunting. By providing a centralised platform for SMEs seeking funding, SME Passport can provide your firm direct access to maturing companies. Using our domain knowledge and connections in the SME world, we will also conduct research into promising early-stage companies, and bring the best opportunities directly to you saving you time in your own search.
Meet Our Team

Maksims Abalenkovs
Scientific Leader, Back-end Developer

Yaron Bernstein
Technology Transfer Officer

Jason Kingston
Business Advisor

Richard Harding
Business Advisor, Ideator

Mark Birmingham
Full Stack Developer