Funded companies
Why filter companies by their funding
When you try to gauge a company’s purchasing power, it’s very common to fall into the trap of looking only at revenue.
While sales are usually the main source of income, external funding can inject a significant amount of cash and dramatically increase the purchasing capacity of the recipient company — often far beyond what you would expect from revenue alone.
At Atogu, we treat two types of external funding independently: private and public.
When we talk about private funding, we mean (often) multi‑million venture capital rounds you may have seen pop up in the press from time to time, as well as capital increases with new shareholders joining.
By contrast, we talk about public funding when a company has been awarded some form of grant or public aid.
When to filter companies by their funding
This question has an easy answer:
A-L-W-A-Y-S
From our humble point of view, this is the kind of alert you should always keep switched on — and it’s easy to see why.
There is no better moment to contact a potential customer than the exact moment they have received a serious injection of liquidity.
External funding, whatever the source, is granted for a purpose — whether that’s building a product or scaling the business. In any case, it opens the door to a period of strong investment by the recipient company.
In other words, by enabling this filter we surface potential customers who not only have money, but also have an urgent need to spend it.
Can you think of a better type of potential customer?
Neither can we.
So don’t say we didn’t warn you — switch on both filters in Atogu.
Available filters
As you can imagine, because the underlying logic is completely different, the two filters available in this segment correspond to the two main sources of external funding: private and public.
Companies with private funding
You can identify which companies have raised private funding by exploring our Financing Module, specifically those for which the Funding type variable takes the value Private capital round.
Because these are private contracts between the parties — i.e., between existing shareholders and new investors — we can only learn the terms that they themselves voluntarily decide to make public.
That’s why Atogu closely monitors capital increase notices in the Commercial Register, major media outlets, the company’s own blog, and the portfolios of leading national and international investment funds, looking for these kinds of announcements.
Companies with public funding
On the other hand, you’ll know a company has obtained a public subsidy when the Funding type variable takes any of the following values:
- Loan
- Guarantee
- Collateral
- Non‑repayable grant
Unlike private funding, where contracts are private, transparency laws require public subsidies to be published. That’s why, in Atogu, you’ll find all awarded subsidies updated daily.
We include guarantees, loans and non‑repayable grants; from national and supra‑national institutions; ranging from a few hundred euros to several million euros.
For more information about the sources and typical scenarios around public aid, we have a dedicated article here: