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Grants vs innoscripta for German R&D funding

innoscripta optimises ongoing R&D operations for tax credits. Grants gets a startup from idea to a funded EXIST or IGP application. Different jobs.

innoscripta
Forschungszulage
Finn Glas
Finn GlasCo-Founder + Engineering
·May 15, 2026·
1 min read

At a glance

innoscripta is an excellent platform if you're an established R&D-active company with payroll for technical staff and a recurring Forschungszulage claim each year. They're a Munich-headquartered SaaS with 2,500+ paying customers and an IPO in 2025 - they earned that scale by being good at the job. The job, however, is administering an ongoing R&D operation for tax-credit compliance - time tracking, audit-ready documentation, capacity planning. Grants does a different job: it gets a startup from a draft Ideenpapier to a submitted EXIST, IGP, KMU innovativ, BMBF, or Horizon application. Where innoscripta plugs into an HR/payroll system, Grants plugs into a writing workflow. Pick by job.

Grants vs innoscripta: feature comparison

When to pick which

Pick Grants when

You're pre-incorporation or in your first 1-2 years and need to actually write your first EXIST, IGP, or Horizon application.
Your team is two or three founders, no HR system, no payroll integration to plug into.
You want the application's section structure, reviewer-language coaching, and the 4-week revision window handed to you.

Pick innoscripta when

You're an established mid-sized R&D-active company with engineers on payroll and a yearly Forschungszulage claim worth optimising.
Your blocker is documentation + audit defence, not application writing.
You need a platform that integrates with SAP / DATEV / Personio for time tracking and capacity planning.

Try Grants

Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. You can export and delete everything self-serve.

Finn Glas

Written by

Finn Glas

Co-Founder + Engineering

Finn is one of the Co-Founders. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices.

finn.glas at aicuflow dot comLinkedInWebsite

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