Stop searching and start building. Our portal constantly scans the changing landscape for funding, events, and support which could help your business. We score and rank them by relevance to your sector, stage, and location.
Free for East of England startups. No credit card required.
Intelligent grant matching
The portal continuously matches your startup profile against every live grant in the East of England. Each opportunity is scored on sector fit, stage alignment, location eligibility, and more, so you see the strongest matches first.
Events and meet-ups
Workshops, pitch days, networking events, and conferences from across the East of England startup ecosystem, filtered to what's actually relevant to you. No more scrolling through events that don't apply.
SEIS & EIS investor directory
Startups in one of our programmes get access to our curated directory of SEIS and EIS investor groups. Each one is ranked by relevance to your sector, stage, and region, with clear signals about investment thesis and cheque sizes.
How it works
Tell us about your startup: your sector, stage, location, and what you're looking for. It takes a couple of minutes.
Our matching engine scores every grant, event, and investor against your profile and surfaces what's relevant to you.
Save opportunities, track your applications, set deadline reminders, and manage everything from one dashboard.
Everything you need
Every grant is scored against your sector, stage, TRL, location, and more. Seven weighted criteria, hard disqualifiers filtered out automatically.
Never miss a closing date. Get email reminders when grants you've saved are closing soon, and track deadlines from your dashboard.
Track every application from discovery through to outcome. Upload documents, add notes, and move opportunities through your pipeline.
Choose instant alerts, daily digests, or weekly summaries. Control your notification frequency and set a minimum match score threshold.
Discover Akcela's own support programmes, request meetings with the team, and track your engagement all from one place.
Part of the Akcela ecosystem. Connect with other founders, access events, and benefit from the collective knowledge of the community.
Join founders across the East of England who are already using the Akcela Startup Portal to discover grants, attend the right events, and connect with investors.
Free for East of England startups. No credit card required.
