I’m Roland Zonai,

a Horizon Europe Funding Expert for exponential innovations.

Secure your funding through futureproof innovation design.

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I’m Roland Zonai,

a Horizon Europe Funding Expert for exponential innovations.

Secure your funding through futureproof innovation design.

SOME DEEPTECH STARTUPS I COACHED:
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Enhance the business models around your radical idea.

Roland redesigns your scalability and impact to be appealing to your future investors.

Roland combines his experience from all sides of the table: as a former EU funding evaluator, European Innovation Council business coach, innovation ecosystem builder, and entrepreneur into a sparkling cocktail of information to provide you futureproof business models to secure your long-term impact creation.
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Apply winning business models from 100+ deeptech sub-sectors

Roland helps de-risk your solution by redesigning its delivery to the market. Upgrade your strategy with winning business patterns that he aggregated from evaluating 22.000 pages of business plans during his years as a Horizon Europe expert funding evaluator.
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100
+
Applications evaluated under Horizon Europe funding programs.
100
M+
Total funding request of projects where Roland decided on allocating EU funding.
20
+
Deeptech innovations coached with EIC methodology.
4.81
/
5.00
Business Development Impact for coached SMEs* through refined business models.
4.97
/
5.00
Empowerment of coached SMEs* for addressing their challenges.
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* Detailed Horizon Europe coaching performance indicators available at the official European Innovation Council Coach Profile

360 Degree Innovation Consulting

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I. FUNDING PILLAR

Horizon Europe Proposal Writing
Redesign your technology, enhance its scalability, and bring „Exponential Impact” in the eyes of EU funding program evaluators.
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II. TECHNOLOGY PILLAR

EIC* Innovation Coaching & Exponential Impact Creation
Redesign your technology, enhance its scalability, and bring „Exponential Impact” in the eyes of EU funding program evaluators.
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III. BUSINESS PILLAR

Business Strategy Design & Future Foresight
Understand your current and future markets and develop a complex market access strategy based on the European Innovation Council market penetration model.
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Experience a different kind of impact creation

via Proposal Writing:

Insider Experience:
Receive insights from Roland’s hands-on experience with winning multi-million euro Horizon Europe applications.
Design Thinking with the eyes of the EU:
Conventional proposal writing agencies only convert your business plan into the EU funding application format. In contrast, Roland also redesigns your solution to be aligned with EU values and increase your fundraising success.

via Innovation Coaching:

Certified Innovation Coaching:
Redesign the technical aspects of your innovation through Roland’s coaching process that follows the official European Innovation Council methodology to create a robust, scalable solution.
Exponential Technology Scoring:
Evaluate your technology through a proprietary exponential technology scoring method that Roland built after evaluating the impact creation of 100+ Horizon Europe applications and understand how to create exponential, multi-sectoral, EU-level impact.

via Business Development:

Design Thinking with Winning Business Models:
Apply out-of-the-box business models and recombine strategies of successful Horizon EU projects. Roland identifies weaknesses, offers cross-sectoral strategies, and enhances market access by de-risking your business model.
Innovation Radar for Futureproof Business Models:
Unlike traditional consultants, Roland not only analyzes market trends, but also creates a tailored innovation radar. He outlines how to adapt your business model with complementary technologies for accessing future markets.
Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic

"Due to the complex nature of the EIC Accelerator questions and their level of abstraction, Roland’s guidance was beneficial to have something that aligns everyone's minds and ensures understanding across the board. This enabled everyone to contribute their necessary input and make the process comprehensible. Roland’s process serves as a time-saving opportunity for everyone to be on the same page and know exactly what is expected. With Roland’s help, it became possible to accomplish tasks that were previously invisible."

Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic
Coordinator
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg

My Clients said

Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic

"Due to the complex nature of the EIC Accelerator questions and their level of abstraction, Roland’s guidance was beneficial to have something that aligns everyone's minds and ensures understanding across the board. This enabled everyone to contribute their necessary input and make the process comprehensible. Roland’s process serves as a time-saving opportunity for everyone to be on the same page and know exactly what is expected. With Roland’s help, it became possible to accomplish tasks that were previously invisible."

Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic
Coordinator
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg
Dr. Asiye Karakullukçu

"Roland provided much greater clarity, helping us understand the questions better than what the original EIC explanations offered for those questions."

Dr. Asiye Karakullukçu
CEO
Aksense Medical Biotechnology
Aksense Medical Biotechnology
Aron Rachamim

“Roland's approach is like a cheat sheet for proposal writing. Roland has seen hundreds of others responding to similar questions and knows what makes a good answer versus a bad one. I believe that having that insight in our EIC Accelerator application was tremendously helpful. This proposal writing saved us 50% of the time. This application is much bigger than what I have ever seen."

Aron Rachamim
President & COO
Senzo, Inc.
Senzo, Inc.
Rosa Anna Nastro

“The fact that Roland already knows the required resources and the number of people needed to work on the proposal development from our side was advantageous. It is especially valuable for those who lack experience."

Rosa Anna Nastro
Founder
EN-TECH Italia
EN-TECH Italia
Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic

"Our perspective changed after receiving Roland’s potential outcomes and examples. It made us reconsider our initial thoughts, and I must say, Roland’s examples had a significant impact on our thinking."

Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic
Coordinator
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg
Igor Martinovic

"We really enjoyed working with Roland because anyone who has ever thought the EIC Accelerator process was simple, they will soon find out how complicated and complex it truly is. It can be very difficult to comprehend and digest this process if you're not experienced. Basically, I think Roland saved a couple of hundred hours of writing answers."

Igor Martinovic
President
Anbiome Labs
Anbiome Labs
Rosa Anna Nastro

"Roland’s approach was fundamentally important to achieve future development in the market."

Rosa Anna Nastro
Founder
EN-TECH Italia
EN-TECH Italia
Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic

"Due to the complex nature of the EIC Accelerator questions and their level of abstraction, Roland’s guidance was beneficial to have something that aligns everyone's minds and ensures understanding across the board. This enabled everyone to contribute their necessary input and make the process comprehensible. Roland’s process serves as a time-saving opportunity for everyone to be on the same page and know exactly what is expected. With Roland’s help, it became possible to accomplish tasks that were previously invisible."

Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic
Coordinator
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg
Aron Rachamim

"Roland’s modular approach helped us see the value change of our product when different business models are applied. It was much clearer in this way."

Aron Rachamim
President & COO
Senzo, Inc.
Senzo, Inc.
Igor Martinovic

"The approach in segmentation of the specific areas, when Roland got to know us, was impressive. He decided on the mechanism to significantly reduce costs for us by identifying our strengths and pinpointing the best areas. This truly helped us."

Igor Martinovic
President
Anbiome Labs
Anbiome Labs
Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic

"We were initially confused about several aspects of the levels of innovativeness, but it became clear when Roland provided the right examples that helped delineate the differences. It was critical in helping understand the distinction."

Prof. Slobodan Vukicevic
Coordinator
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg
OSTEOGROW Project Center for Translational and Clinical Research, UniZg
Rosa Anna Nastro

“After enrolling in the coaching, people will appreciate Roland’s ideation even more.”

Rosa Anna Nastro
Founder
EN-TECH Italia
EN-TECH Italia
Dr. Asiye Karakullukçu

"Paying for such service is a small investment considering the money and time we save. The value lies in the time saved and the higher success rate compared to taking training from an unknown individual. We only truly understand someone's effectiveness once we start working with them."

Dr. Asiye Karakullukçu
CEO
Aksense Medical Biotechnology
Aksense Medical Biotechnology
Dr. Asiye Karakullukçu

"Previously, we struggled to estimate the amount of time needed for developing our market access strategy. However, with Roland’s modular system, we were able to gain a clear understanding of the time required and allocate resources accordingly."

Dr. Asiye Karakullukçu
CEO
Aksense Medical Biotechnology
Aksense Medical Biotechnology
Igor Martinovic

"What Roland additionally brought to the table as a mentor and coach is that he helped us digest all the requirements and answered all specific questions. Roland provided valuable guidance throughout the process."

Igor Martinovic
President
Anbiome Labs
Anbiome Labs

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