Funding & Recognition

One governed platform for grants, awards, nominations
& reviews.

Skipso helps teams run funding and recognition programs in one auditable workspace—handling applications, eligibility, reviews, scoring, communication, decisions, and reporting.

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Built for organisations managing grants, awards,
nominations, and judging programs.

Overview

Powering your Funding & Recognition

Build a platform to run end-to-end funding and recognition programs—from applications and reviews to decisions, communication, and reporting in one workspace.

20,00+

Grant applications received through Skipso

1000+

Independent evaluators scoring applications

55+

Countries represented by applicants

$100m+

Dollars awarded in prize funding

Manage every stage  of your fundings or recognitions.

About Funding & Recognition

Our programs go beyond submission forms. Teams need structured applications, eligibility rules, reviews, scoring, decisions, and communication. Skipso brings intake, review, decisions, communication, and reporting into one configurable workspace.

Shared operating model

Funding and recognition programs depend on a repeatable selection process. Skipso supports the work from program setup and application intake through review, decisions, communication, and reporting.

Design

Open

Collect

Check
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Assign
reviewers

Evaluate

Decide

Communicate

Report

Design

Open

Collect

Check eligibility

Decide

Assign reviewers

Evaluate

Communicate

Report

Program types

Choose the funding or recognition program you need to run.

Grant and award programs share many building blocks, but buyers care about different details. Grant teams usually focus on eligibility, funding decisions, compliance, reporting, and post-award follow-up. Award teams usually focus on nominations, judging, scorecards, finalist selection, communications, and recognition workflows.

Grant Management Software

Manage grant applications, eligibility checks, reviewers, decisions, reporting, and post-award follow-up.

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Award Management Software

Run award entries, nominations, judging rounds, scorecards, finalist selection, winner workflows, and communications.

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Platform capabilities

Capabilities for governed application, review, and selection.

Every selection program runs on the same building blocks. Skipso makes each one configurable so the platform fits your process, not the other way around.

Eligibility checks

Helps teams screen entries before review or judging.

Branded program portals

Creates a public or private front door for each program.

Configurable forms

Captures the data each program needs.

Reviewer and judge workflows

Routes entries to the right evaluators.

Scorecards & criteria

Standardises evaluation across entries.

Applicant communication

Supports notifications, updates, and applicant-facing information.

Governed AI support

Helps with form setup, search, profile pre-fill, screening, enrichment, matching, & reporting where enabled.

Status & decision tracking

Tracks shortlists, approvals, finalists, winners, funded entries, rejected entries, and follow-up stages.

Reporting and exports

Produces dashboards, exports, review reports, and outcome data.

Platform capabilities

Use AI for intake, screening, reviews, and reporting.

Skipso’s AI helps teams build forms, summarise applications, prepare reviews, search program data, and generate reports. It supports the process while program owners and reviewers remain responsible for final decisions.

AI-supported summaries and screening assistance

Prepare applications for review with AI-supported review fields that summarise entries and help administrators screen them before scoring.

AI-powered search for administrators
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Search across people, companies, and content in the network so administrators can find the right profiles and data quickly.

AI-assisted form setup

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Build application, entry, and nomination forms faster with the AI Form Builder Assistant. Administrators review and adjust every form before launch.

AI-supported reporting & analysis

Ask questions about programme data with the AI data chatbot and generate reports from platform activity.
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AI-supported eligibility preparation

Support eligibility review with AI-supported preparation where enabled. Human review remains part of the process.

Explore AI Capabilities

See how governed AI supports intake, screening,
reviewer preparation, and reporting.

Who this is for

Built for the teams
behind the program.

Skipso supports the people responsible for running selection programs that can stand up to internal, public, or sponsor scrutiny.

Public-sector program teams

Foundations and funders

Universities and research organisations

Corporates and CSR teams

Associations and member organisations

Program operations teams

Trust & enterprise controls

Enterprise controls for governed selection programs.

Funding and recognition programs often involve sensitive applicant data, eligibility evidence, reviewer notes, scoring, internal decisions, funding information, and public or sponsor reporting. Skipso supports role-based access, isolated client databases, SSO, audit logs, GDPR-aligned data handling, ISO 27001 certification, and governed AI controls.

Since 2021 Snam has been collaborating with Skipso for the development of Snaminnova.

Competence, passion, and dedication are the main qualities that are evident from the team from day one. Skipso's team is responsive to our every need and supports us in the daily evolution of the platform, a key asset for our Open Innovation strategy.

Giuseppe Paoli

Digital Transformation & Technology, Open Innovation Hub, Snaminnova

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Skipso supported us to design, develop and launch the Federated Innovation @MIND digital platform.

The digital platform has a complex organizational structure and continually updated content and flows – Skipso's strength is its flexibility and proactive support!

Eleonora Venuti

Marketing & Business Community Manager, MIND

The features available through the software are a big reason why we initially chose and continue to choose Skipso to run our challenges.

The ability to match startups to mentors within the system is important to us.

Jessica Smothermon

Director Operations, Cleantech Open

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I cannot imagine how much longer it would have taken

and how much more it would have cost to launch our ideation initiative without the Skipso Labs platform. It has been wonderful to house all of the information and processes in one place.

Amber J. Y.

Senior Program Manager, Hsc Next

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In 2019, Skipso helped IsDB set up our Innovation platform ‘Engage’.

The platform was a complete ecosystem of entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and mentors from academia. Since then the highly responsive and enthusiastic team from SkipsoLabs has helped us to establish Engage as a well-known innovation hub.

Innovation Team

Islamic Development Bank

The Skipso team has worked incredibly hard to make the program an outstanding success.

The team’s effort as well as the high flexibility of their online awards management platform were absolutely essential for the great overall success of this program!

Arne Pingel

Global Product Manager, Syngenta

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OUR CLIENTS

Trusted by 250+ organisations across 40 countries

Trusted by global enterprises, governments and universities to run innovation, grant and startup programs. Our clients use Skipso to manage open innovation, accelerators, grants, awards, research hubs, partner networks, mentoring programs, and white-label ecosystem portals.

Nordic Innovation Accelerator

Cleantech innovation accelerator

Cluster Fabbrica Intelligente

Scouting program for cluster

Water Alliance

Water sector Innovation program

Mind

Multistakeholder innovation cluster

Amadori

Corporate innovation platform

HSC Next

Health Innovation Accelerator

Helsinki

Sustainable Helsinki city challenge

Milano Expo

Video competition for Milan Expo

Terna

Corporate internal innovation

Snam

Corporate Integrated innovation hub

Open Italy

Italy’s open innovation initiative

Italgas

Internal & external tech scouting

University of North Texas Health Science Center at FortWorth

Telefónica

Network of local accelerators

U.S. Department of Energy

Community Innovation Challenge

Syngenta

Biennial Internal award program

Intesa Tech Marketplace

European tech matchmaking platform

Eurovita

Internal employee engagement program

Electrolux

Technology scouting program

Digital Promise

Open innovation education initiative

Deloitte & Regione Puglia

Internal & external innovation initi

Deloitte

Internal & external innovation initi

Colorado Department of Transportation

Innovation challenge initiative

Cleantech Open

Cleantech accelerator program

California Energy Commission

Cleantech community platform