Empowering Startups Through Cascade Funding: Sploro at PODIM 2025
06 May 2025
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Innovation doesn’t always begin in a lab or a boardroom. Sometimes, it starts with a belief, that startups, regardless of their background, geography, or capital, deserve a fair shot at success. That’s where Sploro comes in. As a leading Spanish innovation consultancy, Sploro is transforming how early-stage companies access equity-free funding through EU-backed programmes.
In 2025, the team returns to PODIM, this time not just as speakers, but as official sponsors. With a focus on promoting the Cascade Funding Hub and the Women TechEU initiative, Sploro’s presence signals a bold commitment to building a more inclusive and innovation-driven startup ecosystem in Europe.
At the heart of Sploro’s work is cascade funding, a powerful tool that redistributes EU funding directly to startups through smaller, manageable grants. For emerging entrepreneurs, this means skipping the red tape and getting right to building their business. Through programmes like Women TechEU, Open Horizons, PQ-React, and PhotonQBoost, Sploro manages over €20 million in funding, offering innovators funding between €50k and €150k.
According to Miguel García González, CEO & Co-founder of Sploro, “Our job is to simplify complexity. With tools like cascadefunding.eu, we help startups find the right opportunities at the right time.”
PODIM 2025 comes at a key moment for Women TechEU, a flagship programme supporting women-led deep tech startups. Sploro is one of the primary promoters of the initiative, helping drive gender equity in a sector that has long been male-dominated.
Maja Horvat, Project Manager at Sploro and a champion for Central European startups, emphasizes, “Representation matters. Women TechEU is not only about funding, it’s about visibility, mentorship, and a strong European network.”
For women-led start-ups, this support is vital. With the third cohort of the program almost underway, the results are remarkable: dozens of innovative women-led businesses are getting the boost they need to grow and lead.
Sploro isn’t just participating behind the scenes. On May 14 at 10:20 AM, Miguel will take the Main Stage at PODIM to deliver a talk titled “How to Bridge the Financing Gap for Deep Tech Commercialization.” His insights, backed by years of experience as an external expert for the European Commission, will prove how cascade funding is becoming a game-changer for Europe’s innovation ecosystem.
In a landscape where traditional VC funding can be hard to access, cascade funding offers an alternative that puts impact first. By streamlining access to grants, reducing bureaucracy, and supporting underrepresented groups, Sploro is reshaping how Europe funds its future.
And with cascadefunding.eu as the go-to platform for opportunities, innovators no longer have to navigate the maze of EU funding alone.
As PODIM gathers the boldest minds in tech and entrepreneurship, Sploro’s presence underscores a simple truth: funding innovation should be fair, inclusive, and borderless. Sploro is paving the way for a new generation of European founders to rise.
