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Case study

iQrypto: winning and running EU deeptech projects

iQrypto is a deeptech startup whose team wrote, won, and managed competitive European and national projects across semiconductors and quantum technologies. This is what the portfolio looks like — and what actually made the difference.

The funding portfolio

A startup does not win across five different funding systems by accident. Each programme below has different evaluators, different rules, and different expectations — and each was won with a proposal written for that specific audience.

What made the difference

The proposal is not the paper

Strong research groups lose because they write for peers, not evaluators. Every winning draft was restructured around the call's expected outcomes — measurable objectives, an explicit impact pathway, and evidence instead of claims.

Consortium design is scored, not administrative

Evaluators read partner lists as a feasibility argument. Roles were defined before writing started, so every partner had a substantive, proportionate task — no passenger partners, no duplicated effort.

Impact sections need numbers, not adjectives

Baselines, targets, timeframes, and named beneficiaries. The drafts that scored best treated the impact section as a measurement plan, not a marketing page.

Winning is the start, not the finish

Funded projects live or die on management: reporting cadence, deliverable quality, dissemination, and amendments. Running them properly is what makes the next proposal credible.

This is the experience behind Arvacore.

The same proposal discipline that won these programmes is what we apply to your draft. Start with a free, evaluator-style scorecard and see exactly where your proposal stands.

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