About us
We get innovation moving.
With the partners who belong at the table. With the funding that fits. And with AI that takes over the paperwork while people check and approve. For companies, universities and everyone who works with them.
Bringing together
Nobody innovates alone.
The company has the idea, the university the research, the tax adviser the figures, the law firm the patent. They already sit at the same table. They just never had the same tabletop. On upsmart everyone works in one project, and whoever is missing is in the catalogue.
Companies find partners.
University, supplier, institute: whoever you are missing is in the catalogue instead of being hunted for in your address book.
Universities take projects out of the drawer.
A company with a budget, one project where everything is stated once. Free for universities and institutes.
Consultants bring their clients along. And find new ones.
You work inside your client's project, your client stays yours, and new mandates find you in the catalogue. Signing up costs nothing.
Making it possible
Every idea gets its chance.
More than 2,000 funding programmes from the federal government, the states and the EU. We look for the programme that fits the idea, not for an idea that fits the programme: no work package nobody needs, no partner nobody wanted, just to match a guideline.
2.064programmes in the directory, free to search
We stay until it runs. We only earn when your project comes together or funding is paid out.
Speeding up
Weeks become days. And still, in every project:
Every figure knows where it came from.
Which file, which page, which excerpt. Even three years later, when the audit comes.
What is approved stays exactly as it was.
If something changes, the approval visibly expires. And whoever sends it back says why.
Your project lives in your own house.
In its own environment, not in one pot with everyone else. What is created in your consortium is seen by your consortium.
Servers in Germany.
Operated by European providers at every layer. No access under US law.
Because in the end a person is liable, not the model.