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Funding intelligence for small business

Funding matched to your business
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There are more grants, specialized loans, tax credits, rebates, and free programs available to small businesses in Massachusetts and Rhode Island than most owners ever hear about, and the windows to apply are often short. Tell us about your business once. Twice a month, we send the matches that fit, with enough context to know which ones to act on.

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How it works

Three steps to funding you didn't know existed

Tell us about your business once. We match your profile against our curated database of active programs and send you what fits.

01
Tell us about your business
Your industry, location, size, revenue, ownership, and goals become our filter. The more specific you are, the sharper your matches.
02
We scan for programs that fit your business
We match your profile against every active program in our database: grants, loans, tax credits, and corporate programs. Nothing reaches you that isn't worth your time.
03
Your digest arrives
On the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month, a ranked digest lands in your inbox, each match paired with a short, personal read on where you stand and why. One click saves any of them to your portal to revisit later.
Your Funding Passport

Fill it out once. Use it everywhere.

Think of FundBug like a $20-a-month insurance policy and a lottery ticket rolled into one. The insurance part: you always know what grants, specialized loans, and rebates are on the table for your business, so the day you need capital, you're never starting from zero. The lottery part: grants are never guaranteed, but every application is a real shot at money you never pay back, and the only way to win one is to apply.

Unlike a real lottery, though, your odds improve with effort. Every application you send is a ticket, and the better your fit and the more you apply, the better your chances of a win.

Your Funding Passport is what makes applying to everything actually practical. Build your profile once (your website can even fill it in for you), and FundBug reuses it to sharpen every match and draft your application answers, so each additional application takes minutes, not weekends.

Worst case, you learn about dozens of programs that can start, grow, protect, or save your business. Best case, you win grant money you never knew existed before using FundBug.

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Funding Passport
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✓ Industry & location
✓ Your story, in your own words
✓ Ownership & certifications
✓ How you operate
✓ Application details
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What you get

Built around your business

Every part of FundBug is designed around one question: what funding programs fit this specific business, right now?

Digest on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month
Your best matches, ranked and explained, twice a month on a predictable schedule. Your top grant opportunity always comes first, with everything else ordered by fit and odds.
Personalized matching
Every match includes a plain-English explanation written specifically for your business: why you qualify, what to emphasize in your application, and what to watch out for.
Human-vetted programs
We search through thousands of funding programs and filter out the ones that don't apply: nonprofit-only grants, government agency programs, healthcare and science-specific funding. Everything that makes it into our database has been reviewed by a real person who confirms it's current and a fit for a for-profit small business.
Competition scoring
Every program is rated Low, Medium, High, or Lottery so you know what you're walking into before you apply. High-competition programs can still be worth pursuing, since the best-fit grant for your business is sometimes also a popular one. The rating gives you context, not a reason to skip.
Eligibility confidence score
Each match shows whether you likely qualify, partially match, or need to verify a key requirement, so you know before you click where to spend your effort.
Personalized pre-application forms
For any program you're pursuing, FundBug generates tailored draft answers to the standard grant application questions like business description, use of funds, and expected impact, pulled straight from your Funding Passport. It's a head start, not a finished product, yours to refine and submit.
Your Funding Passport
One profile that powers everything. Build your Funding Passport once, the facts about your business that funding applications always ask for, and every answer sharpens your matches and unlocks programs the basics can't reach. Have a website? One click reads it and fills your Passport in for you.
Interactive program tracker
Every program from your digests lives in your subscriber portal. Star the ones you're pursuing, update your status from Not Started to Applied to Won, and keep your pipeline in one place between digests.
Beyond grants
Grants, matching grants, SBA loans, CDFIs, tax credits, corporate programs, state loans. The full spectrum of capital, not just the headline programs everyone already knows about. And these aren't the loans your bank advertises: many are specialized products with below-market rates, credit enhancements, paired grants, or free advisory support alongside the money. And it's not all money: FundBug also surfaces free technical assistance, advisory services, training, and marketing opportunities that put your business in front of new customers.
Continuously updated
Programs open and close throughout the year. We track those changes as they happen, so your digest reflects what's open right now, not what was current last quarter.
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

FundBug is a funding intelligence service for small business owners. We track grants, loans, tax credits, matching grants, and corporate programs at the national, state, and municipal levels, then send you a personalized digest of the programs that fit your business on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month. Every program in our database is reviewed and kept current by a real person.

FundBug is built for for-profit small business owners who want a simpler way to find funding without spending hours on government portals and grant databases. If you're running a business in Massachusetts or Rhode Island and want to know what money is available to you, FundBug is for you. We also keep watch for new programs as they open, so you hear about the right opportunities while there's still time to act on them.

A search engine hands you links, and an AI tool hands you confident answers, but neither can tell you what your business actually qualifies for. They surface expired programs and funding you'll never be eligible for, and a chatbot will happily invent a deadline that doesn't exist. You're left doing the real work yourself.

FundBug does that work for you. You tell us about your business once, we match your profile against our hand-vetted database, and we send you the programs that fit, with a clear explanation of why you qualify and how competitive each one is. Just as important, when a new program opens we surface it in your next digest. These opportunities come and go, and most have hard deadlines. Catching them in time is everything, and staying informed is the first step.

Yes. Every new subscriber gets a 14-day free trial. Your card is saved at signup but not charged until the trial ends, and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be charged at all.

Yes. Cancel anytime from your subscriber portal. Your access stays active through the end of your billing period, with no proration and no hassle.

No, and you should be skeptical of any service that does. Grants are competitive, and the final decision rests entirely with the program administrator. What we promise is narrower and real: the programs we surface are current and matched to your business. The application itself is up to you.

Simple pricing

One service. Two ways to pay.

Try it free for 14 days, with no charge until your trial ends. If it surfaces one program worth applying for, it pays for itself many times over.

Monthly
$20
per month · cancel anytime
  • Digest on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month
  • Personalized match scoring
  • Eligibility confidence score per match
  • Human-vetted, continuously updated programs
  • Competition level ratings
  • Interactive program tracker
  • Personalized pre-application forms
  • Referral bonus: 1 free month per paying referral
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14-day free trial · No charge until your trial ends
Best value: save $40 a year
Annual
$200
per year · 2 months free
You save $40 vs monthly
  • Everything in the monthly plan
  • Two months free, $40 less than paying monthly
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14-day free trial · No charge until your trial ends