Funding Atlas lists 27,000 funding opportunities in one database
David Raynor spent his career in film. At 75 he has built a search engine for grants, accelerators and angel investors, and says it now holds more than 27,000 entries.
Funding Atlas is a search platform for money. Grants, government schemes, accelerators, angel investors and startup funding programmes are collected in one database rather than scattered across the sites that publish them.
The company says it holds more than 27,000 verified funding opportunities, covering countries around the world, and that the figure grows daily.
Raynor says the listings are refreshed every two hours, which he contrasts with static lists compiled months earlier and never revisited.
The problem he describes is familiar to anyone who has gone looking for non-dilutive money. The opportunity exists somewhere. Finding it takes hours, and the search often ends at a deadline that passed, a scheme that no longer applies, or eligibility criteria that never fitted in the first place.
Users can search and browse by need, save opportunities for later, and email saved items to their own inbox to open on another device. The platform also sends notifications about new listings, so users are not repeating the same searches week after week.
Raynor is not a career software engineer. He spent much of his working life in the creative industries, writing and directing films.
He says he built Funding Atlas at 75, after becoming interested in what AI and current development tools make possible for people who have an idea but not a background in code.
He is also the founder of Morphosys, a filmmaking technology platform he describes as in development, intended to use AI tools at stages of the creative and production process.
Funding Atlas is live. Raynor describes it as a beginning rather than a finished product, and says the work now is expanding the number of sources, improving discovery and developing the underlying technology.
What the platform costs has not been announced. Nor has the company published how many people use it, or what "verified" means in practice — whether a human checks each listing, or a system does.
Those two questions matter more than the headline number. A database of 27,000 entries is only useful if the entries are current and the eligibility rules are accurate, and a founder can waste as much time on a bad listing as on no listing at all.
For anyone hunting grant money, the practical test is cheap. Search for the schemes you already know exist in your own country and see whether the deadlines match reality. If they do, the other 26,990 entries are worth a look.
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