Catalyze Group and Brainial launch new strategic venture Grantific, an expert-backed AI-powered grant writing platform
31 March 2026, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — Catalyze Group today announces the launch of Grantific, a new strategic venture co-founded with Brainial, an AI-native tender platform company. Grantific is a collaborative platform created to bring expert-backed, AI-powered support throughout the grant process, transforming how organizations access funding.
Pictured (left to right): Fedor Klinkenburg, Co-founder & CEO Brainial, Theodoor Rutgers, CEO Grantific, Marlene Végh, CEO Catalyze Group
A bold step for Catalyze Group
For more than 20 years, Catalyze has supported researchers and entrepreneurs in securing competitive European innovation funding. Grant work demands more than writing: it requires managing complex requirements, data, and collaboration while staying aligned with evaluation criteria and maintaining control over sensitive information.
As digital transformation accelerates, Catalyze continues to innovate as leader in its industry. Grantific is a bold step and the first platform built on a unique combination: Catalyze’s grant-domain expertise paired with Brainial’s AI-native automation, built from the starting point of structuring knowledge rather than simply generating text. The result is a new benchmark for controlled, high-quality grant work that brings structure, traceability, and confidence to funding workflows at scale. In addition, users can access Catalyze consultancy support within the platform.
Marlene Végh, CEO, Catalyze Group: “Grantific is a major strategic step for Catalyze Group. As innovation work digitises, we continue to lead by combining deep consulting expertise with technology. We are launching Grantific as an expert-led platform designed to scale how innovators secure funding. It strengthens our role as a long-term partner in innovation, extending our impact beyond consultancy while maintaining the quality standards our clients rely on.”
Theodoor Rutgers, CEO of Grantific, added: “Our mission is to make grant funding truly accessible end-to-end: with smarter funding matching, seamless collaboration, and AI-powered proposal development. The funding landscape is ready for disruption, and Grantific is leading the way.”
Built on proven foundations
Grantific is built on the combined strengths of its founding partners. Catalyze contributes 20+ years of grant-domain expertise, including deep understanding of evaluation criteria, funding schemes, and what consistently strengthens proposals. Brainial contributes AI-native platform architecture proven in demanding, document-heavy bid environments, trusted by 150+ multinational corporations and proven since 2019 across 70,000+ complex tenders, producing outputs that remain traceable to their sources.
Fedor Klinkenberg, Founder & CEO of Brainial, said: “Since launching Brainial we have mastered AI-native automation for the world’s most complex tender workflows. By merging our scalable, verifiable AI and source-referenced technology with Catalyze’s deep grant expertise, we are providing organisations with the speed of modern AI, combined with the absolute certainty that grant-writing demands. We are excited to set a new global standard.”
About Catalyze Group
Catalyze Group is committed to accelerating innovations that have a positive impact on the world. Catalyze is the European market leader in innovation consulting for Life Sciences, Sustainability, and Digital & Industrial deep tech innovations. Our offering of strategic services, funding consulting, project management and more, deliver impactful expertise for all development stages. With the highest quality in the industry, we aim to be the consulting partner of choice to drive the success of meaningful innovation projects. We have secured over €2 billion in funding for our clients across a wide range of sectors and European and international funding programmes.
About Grantific
Grantific is a AI-powered expert-backed platform transforming how organizations approach grant discovery and writing. As an all-in-one, collaborative platform, it enables users to identify relevant funding opportunities, develop high-quality grant applications, and work seamlessly with colleagues and partners in a single environment. By combining AI-powered software with deep domain expertise, Grantific enables a faster, more efficient, and more structured grant process. Built on the strengths of Catalyze and Brainial, the platform supports organizations across industries in accessing grant opportunities more effectively.
About Brainial
Brainial is Europe’s only AI-native tender platform designed for enterprise bid teams in sectors where tenders are complex and business-critical. Founded in 2019, the company has developed a scalable SaaS solution that more than 150 multinational corporations already trust. Brainial distinguishes itself by combining verifiable AI with source-referenced outputs, providing full bid cycle support from tender discovery to proposal submission. In a rapidly digitalizing market, Brainial empowers organizations to manage high-stakes processes with unparalleled speed, precision, and enterprise-grade quality.
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