Run Your Seed Fund Without a Spreadsheet Marathon
Your seed-fund call end to end: the form, a faculty jury and a ranking your governing body can defend.Institute seed funds, innovation-cell grants and student competitions all run on the same rhythm: a form, a busy faculty jury, and a governing body that expects a ranking it can defend. IdeaScore carries the whole call, and can sit on your own server if that is what your IT office needs.
Who Works in It
Innovation cell administrator
Faculty evaluator
Student or faculty applicant
A Seed-Fund Call, Start to Disbursement
The stages most institute funds already run, now with one system carrying every handoff.
Call opens
Faculty screening
Jury round
Pitch day
Disbursement
One form for the whole institute, built once a cycle
Build a multi-stage form with the fields an institute application needs — team details, stage, a department question for faculty applicants. Attach guidance, set a capacity and closing date; applicants save drafts and resume.
Build a multi-stage form with the fields an institute application actually needs — team details, stage of development, a TRL selector, a department question that only appears for faculty applicants. Attach guidance documents, set a capacity and a closing date, and applicants save drafts and resume across sittings.
A ranking your faculty jury can stand behind
Evaluators score against a weighted rubric on their own time. Calibration normalises the strict scorer and the generous one, and a second round can promote only the shortlist forward.
Evaluators score against a weighted rubric on their own time, on their own laptop. Calibration normalises the strict scorer and the generous one before the leaderboard is final, and a second round can promote only the shortlist forward for a jury day.
Pitch day and a report your governing body will accept
Run the live pitch session with a timer and a projector board the room can watch update. Afterwards, export the committee report as Excel or HTML — the same ranking the jury produced, ready for the meeting that approves disbursement.
What University Teams Use Most
Rubric with weights and descriptors
Calibration across evaluators
Conditional multi-stage forms
Resubmission and duplicate detection
Self-hosting on your own infrastructure
Committee Excel export
Applicant portal with magic-link sign-in
Audit log
Questions Universities Ask
See Your Seed-Fund Call Run in IdeaScore
A 30-minute walkthrough with a product specialist, using your call's form, faculty rubric and rounds.
Who Works in It
Innovation cell administrator
Builds the form once each cycle, opens the window, and triages incoming applications without touching a spreadsheet.
Faculty evaluator
Scores a batch between lectures on a laptop, against a rubric someone else set up, with no software to install.
Student or faculty applicant
Fills a long form across several sittings, uploads a pitch deck, and can see exactly where the application stands.
A Seed-Fund Call, Start to Disbursement
Call opens
A registration window with a capacity limit and a public link goes out to departments.
Faculty screening
Reviewers triage for completeness and flag resubmissions from an earlier cohort.
Jury round
Faculty and invited industry evaluators score against a shared rubric, in their own time.
Pitch day
Shortlisted teams present live, with a timer and a projector board the room can see.
Disbursement
The committee report goes to governance and funding follows the ranking it approved.
How IdeaScore Runs It
One form for the whole institute, built once a cycle
Build a multi-stage form with the fields an institute application needs — team details, stage, a department question for faculty applicants. Attach guidance, set a capacity and closing date; applicants save drafts and resume.
Explore applicationsA ranking your faculty jury can stand behind
Evaluators score against a weighted rubric on their own time. Calibration normalises the strict scorer and the generous one, and a second round can promote only the shortlist forward.
- Conflict-of-interest declarations before assignment
- Blind review when identity should not colour a score
Pitch day and a report your governing body will accept
Run the live pitch session with a timer and a projector board the room can watch update. Afterwards, export the committee report as Excel or HTML — the same ranking the jury produced, ready for the meeting that approves disbursement.
Explore pitch day and reports