Built in the European Union
From idea to
legacy
The place where European founders meet cofounders, investors, operators and universities. You publish for free and pay only for the contacts you decide to reach.
- Publishing
- Free, always
- One contact
- 2.00 EUR
- Idea detail
- Sealed under NDA
- Apps
- iOS and Android
Who it is for
Six ways in,
one network
An idea with no money and money with no idea are the same problem seen from two sides. Both sides are here.
Founders
Publish the project, keep the sensitive layer sealed, and choose who gets to read it.
Cofounders
Join something early on equity terms instead of waiting for a job posting.
Operators
Engineers, designers, marketers and lawyers who build for a fee, for equity, or both.
Investors
Angels, syndicates and funds reading real deal flow, filtered by country, sector and stage.
Idea authors and buyers
Sell a concept you will never build, or acquire one that is already thought through.
Universities and grant bodies
Publish programmes and deadlines, then find the teams that actually fit them.
What happens here
Four things people come to do
Team
Find the people who build it with you
Describe the project, the stage it is at and the role you are missing. Technical cofounder, first designer, a lawyer who knows EU data rules. Candidates apply to you, and you reach out to the ones worth a conversation.
Free to publish · 1 contact to reach a person
Capital
Reach investors who read your sector
Publish a public brief and keep the numbers sealed. Investors filter by country, ticket size and stage, then open the sealed layer under your NDA. We introduce, we never hold or move your money.
Free to publish · 1 contact to reach a fund
Market
Sell an idea instead of shelving it
A market for concepts that are researched but will not be built by their author. Set a price, show the public teaser, transfer the full package with a written assignment once a buyer agrees.
Listing free · assignment template included
Grants
Find grants before the deadline passes
University programmes, regional funds and accelerator calls in one list, with eligibility, ticket size and closing date. Follow a country or a topic and get told when something opens.
Browsing free · 1 contact to reach a programme office
Idea protection
Show enough to
be interesting.
Seal the rest.
Nobody funds a secret, and nobody should have to hand a stranger the whole plan to get a first reply. So a project on STARTUPIT has two layers.
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01
Publish
The public layer says what the problem is, the market, the stage and what you need. Every revision is fingerprinted with a content hash and a UTC timestamp, so you can always show what you wrote and when you wrote it.
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02
Seal
The mechanism, the numbers, the customer list and the code stay in the sealed layer. It opens only after a reader accepts your non disclosure agreement, from an identity verified account, with the moment of acceptance recorded. Use our mutual template or upload your own.
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03
Disclose
Every opening writes a line in your disclosure ledger: who read it, when, which revision, under which agreement. Export it as a signed PDF at any point. If a reader later launches your plan, you are not arguing from memory.
STARTUPIT is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. Templates are drafted for EU jurisdictions and can be replaced with your own.
Try it · sealed brief
Public layer
Halden Grid
- Sector
- Energy
- Stage
- Pre seed
- Looking for
- CTO, 150k
Balancing software for apartment blocks that already have rooftop solar. Two pilot buildings signed in Portugal, third in negotiation. We are looking for a technical cofounder and a first ticket.
Sealed layer
NDA required
- Pilot revenue
- 4 180 EUR / month
- Gross margin
- 61 %
- Signed pilots
- 2 buildings, 84 flats
- Patent status
- Filed, PT 2026 / 0417
The balancing method predicts per flat consumption from meter data alone, with no extra hardware, which is what lets a building switch supplier weekly instead of yearly. Full technical note, cap table and the letter of intent from the third building are attached below.
- Mutual, three years, governed by Portuguese law.
- Covers the sealed layer and every attachment in revision 7.
- Your name, the time of acceptance and the revision are recorded.
accepted 2026-09-07T11:42:08Z · sha256 4f9c1d…a17b · revision 7
Disclosure ledger
you · mutual NDA v2.1 · revision 7 · 2026-09-07 11:42 UTC
This is a demonstration with sample data. No agreement is signed.
The contact
One star,
one introduction
A contact is the unit we sell. It is the only thing on the platform that costs money, because it is the only thing that is genuinely scarce: someone's attention.
What a contact opens
The verified channel to one person or one organisation, and the right to write first. Once they answer, the thread stays yours for good.
Answering is always free
If someone spends a contact to reach you, replying costs you nothing. Being findable never has a price.
Three months to use it
Every contact stays valid for three months from the day it lands in your balance. They are there to be spent, not stockpiled.
Contact balance
6
| Date | Entry | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | Founder plan, monthly grant | +8 |
| 2026-09-03 | Ana R., CTO, Lisbon | −1 |
| 2026-09-04 | Nordwind Ventures, Berlin | −1 |
| 2026-09-04 | Reply from Ana R. | 0 |
| Available | 6 |
Oldest contacts in this balance expire on 2026-12-01.
Pricing
Free to be here.
Paid to reach out.
Publishing a project, browsing every listing and reading every public brief cost nothing on any plan.
Bundle
10 EUR
one off · 5 contacts · 2.00 each
- No subscription, no renewal
- Standard NDA templates
- Disclosure ledger included
Founder
Best value
10 EUR / mo
8 contacts monthly · 1.25 each
- Everything in Bundle
- Custom NDA upload
- Grant deadline alerts
- Verified founder badge
Studio
25 EUR / mo
24 contacts monthly · 1.04 each
- Everything in Founder
- Three seats on one balance
- Saved searches and deal flow export
Institution
Talk to us
universities · funds · accelerators
- Unlimited grant and programme listings
- Seats for the whole office
- Institutional verification and invoicing
Prices in euro. VAT is added at checkout according to your country. Monthly contacts arrive on the day you are billed and stay valid for three months. Cancel from your account at any time.
Grants and universities
Public money is out there.
The calendar is the hard part.
Regional funds, university programmes and accelerator calls sit on fifty different websites with fifty different deadlines. We put them in one list and tell you when something you qualify for opens.
Filter by what actually decides it
Country, region, sector, company age, team size, ticket range and closing date.
Alerts before the deadline, not after
Follow a country or a topic and get one message when a matching programme opens.
For the office on the other side
Universities and funds publish programmes free of charge and read the teams that fit them before the call closes.
Web and mobile
Deal flow reads
better in a queue
The website is the full workspace. The apps are for the parts of the job that happen between meetings: reading new briefs, answering a founder, spending a contact while the thought is fresh.
How we operate
GDPR by default
Accounts, messages and documents are stored and processed inside the European Union.
Verified accounts
Identity is checked before anyone can accept an NDA or open a sealed layer.
We are not a broker
We introduce people. We do not hold client money, place securities or advise on investments.
Written records
Timestamps, revisions and disclosures are logged and exportable, for you and for us.
Questions
Straight answers
Is publishing really free?
Yes. Publishing a project, editing it, browsing every listing, reading every public brief and answering anyone who reaches you are free and stay free. You pay only when you choose to reach out first.
What stops someone from copying my idea?
Two layers and a record. The sealed layer opens only after an identity verified account accepts your NDA, and every opening is logged with the exact revision that person saw. No system can stop a bad actor outright, but a dated record of who read what turns a suspicion into a claim you can act on.
Do my contacts really expire?
Three months after they land in your balance. Contacts exist to start conversations while a project is live, so we price them low and keep them moving rather than letting them sit unused for a year.
Do you take a cut of the money raised?
No. There is no success fee and no commission. We are paid for introductions, which is why the price of one is two euro and not a percentage of your round.
Which countries do you cover?
The 27 member states of the European Union at launch, with the wider EEA following. The interface is in English first. German, French, Spanish and Portuguese are in progress.
How do I sell an idea I will not build?
List it with a public teaser and a price. Interested buyers open the sealed layer under your NDA, and if you agree on terms you transfer the package with a written assignment. The template is included, and you are free to use your own lawyer instead.
Put your idea
somewhere it can grow
Join the launch list. One email when the platform opens in your country, and nothing else.