👋 Welcome 👋
Somehow we're already in July, and yet Summer weather hasn't stopped the number of people subscribing to this passing 1,100! Amazing to see it prove so useful :) Please let me know of any opportunities I've missed to include next month for everyone else's benefit (particularly for non-UK devs!), and as always, feel free to forward this mail anyone else you know that might benefit from it.
💲 Funding 💲
[🇬🇧] Nesta EdTech Innovation Fund
Deadline 15th July. Grants of up to £100k are available for up to 20 projects to support effective use of technology in schools and colleges.
[🇬🇧] Innovate UK Smart Grants
Deadline 24 July. £25 million fund for the best game-changing, innovative or disruptive ideas from any area of technology, including creative industries and engineering. For 6-18 months projects eligible project costs are £25-£500k. For 19-36 months projects eligible project costs are up to £2 million.
[ENG] Creative England Greenshoots £100k funding
Deadline 11th August. Offers up to £100k per developer. Must be in England but outside Greater London. Must include a dedicated version for Windows 10, distributed via the Windows 10 Store, and/or Xbox One.
[🌎] Cartier Women's Initiative
Deadline 14th August. Female entrepreneurs running for-profit businesses that meet at least one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with over 1 year of revenue. 7 regional winners each win $100k. A further 14 runners up each win $30k, and all get high level coaching, workshops and media exposure.
[🇪🇺] Horizon2020 Accelerator pilot
Deadline 5th September. €50k available to "high risk" European companies looking to do market research, user testing, IP management, or feasibility assessment etc. The funding is to formulate a solid, high-potential innovation project with a European or global growth-oriented strategy.
[🇬🇧] Stelios Awards for Disabled Entrepreneurs
Deadline 10th September. A total of £100K prize money is available for those with disabilities who have demonstrated exceptional entrepreneurial spirit and business ability in the face of significant barriers.
[🇬🇧] EUREKA: Singapore open competition
Deadline 19th September. UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £1 million to develop innovative proposals with Singapore and other EUREKA countries.
[🇬🇧] Strength in Places Fund - UK Research and Innovation
Deadline 9th October. £50k funding to support innovation-led relative regional growth with local collaborations involving research and innovation.
[🇪🇺] XR4ALL Open Call
Deadline 31st October. A total of €1.5M is available and the maximum funding per selected project is €50,000, to develop new XR solutions e.g. plugins for games engines such as Unity, low level components based on open APIs, standards and frameworks such as SolAR, or any XR Application.
[ENG] Creative England New Ideas Fund
No specific deadline. Investments between £500 and £15,000 for new and innovative business proposals. Screen based storytelling businesses in the English regions. This includes film, television, animation, games, immersive media or tech that supports these industries.
🏆 Awards 🏆
[🇪🇺] TIGA Games Industry Awards 2019
Deadline 9th August. Game entries are free, business entries must be Tiga members.
Funding Assistance
Modern Wolf
Modern Wolf is an indie games publisher run by former game devs. We're making a community of progressive, like-minded developers, and we want to see your game pitch: hello@modernwolf.net
📸 Showcase 📸
[🇬🇧] Beta Public X
Beta Public looking for anything "weird and game-y or performance-y " for October event in London.
⏩ Accelerators ⏩
[🇬🇧] Virgin Step Up
Deadline 15th July. A free, two-day, pre-accelerator programme for founders looking to scale their start-up.
[🌎] StateZero Labs; a blockchain Lab for startups
Deadline 12th July. Offers up to £50,000, up to 100 mentoring sessions, a 3 month business programme, and free office space.
📚 Book Club 📚
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
An enjoyable easy read, delving into the history of Nike, with the author fairly blunt about many of his failings along the way. Although he repeatedly questions the value of marketing throughout, yet waxes lyrical about spending fortunes on having athletes 'endorse' his shoes, so be interested to hear from anyone that's got a perspective on how much traditional marketing Nike have really relied on.
💤 Housekeeping 💤
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