Finding the right Horizon Europe funding opportunity has become increasingly complex.
Thousands of topics, hundreds of thousands of funded projects and an ever-growing network of research organisations make identifying the best call—or the right consortium partner—a time-consuming task.
Kaila and AISEMA both aim to simplify this process through artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics. However, while they appear similar at first glance, they have different priorities and target slightly different users.
At a Glance
Kaila
AISEMA
Primary focus
Innovation intelligence platform
Horizon Europe funding intelligence
Best for
Innovation management across EU programmes
Strategic Horizon Europe funding decisions
Funding opportunity search
Excellent
Excellent
Partner discovery
Excellent
Excellent
Innovation trend analysis
Excellent
Good
Competitive intelligence
Excellent
Good
Predictive funding analytics
Good
Excellent
Horizon Europe focus
Strong, but multi-programme
Exclusive
What is Kaila?
Kaila is an innovation intelligence platform developed by Zabala Innovation.
It aggregates data from more than 65 European funding sources into a single searchable environment, covering programmes such as Horizon Europe, LIFE, Interreg, Erasmus+ and many others. Beyond funding opportunities, Kaila helps organisations analyse innovation trends, monitor competitors and identify potential collaboration partners. AI powers its recommendation engine and semantic search capabilities.
Its objective is to support innovation management across the entire European funding ecosystem rather than focusing exclusively on Horizon Europe.
What is AISEMA?
AISEMA is a Horizon Europe intelligence platform built specifically around the European Framework Programme.
Rather than simply indexing calls and projects, it uses semantic search, historical funding data and predictive indicators to help organisations evaluate funding opportunities, identify experienced consortium partners and estimate the competitiveness of future calls. It also provides budget insights and partner track records based on previous Horizon Europe participation.
Its purpose is to support strategic decision-making before proposal preparation begins.
Different Product Philosophies
Although both platforms use AI to analyse European funding data, they approach innovation management from different perspectives.
Kaila is designed as a broad innovation management platform. It helps organisations understand technological trends, monitor competitors, explore multiple European funding programmes and build innovation ecosystems. Horizon Europe is one of its major use cases, but not its only one.
AISEMA is much more specialised. Everything revolves around Horizon Europe: understanding calls, analysing funded projects, identifying high-performing partners and estimating the likelihood of success for future applications.
One platform takes a broad innovation perspective; the other focuses deeply on one funding programme.
Feature Comparison
Funding Opportunity Discovery
Both platforms provide semantic search across European funding opportunities.
Kaila covers dozens of European programmes, while AISEMA concentrates exclusively on Horizon Europe.
Winner: Draw
Horizon Europe Intelligence
AISEMA was built specifically around Horizon Europe and provides dedicated indicators such as historical and predictive success rates, partner funding history and budget analysis.
Winner: AISEMA
Innovation Trend Analysis
One of Kaila's strongest capabilities is analysing innovation ecosystems, emerging technologies and funding trends across multiple European programmes. It also offers competitive intelligence features beyond proposal preparation.
Winner: Kaila
Partner Discovery
Both platforms help organisations identify potential consortium partners.
Kaila searches broadly across European innovation ecosystems, while AISEMA focuses on organisations with proven Horizon Europe participation and funding history.
Winner: Draw
Strategic Funding Decisions
If your objective is to maximise Horizon Europe success rates, AISEMA provides more specialised analytical tools tailored to that programme.
If your organisation manages innovation activities across multiple European funding schemes, Kaila offers a broader strategic perspective.
Winner: Depends on your objectives
Which Platform Should You Choose?
Choose Kaila if you:
- Work across multiple European funding programmes.
- Need innovation intelligence beyond Horizon Europe.
- Monitor competitors and technology trends.
- Want a single platform covering the broader European innovation ecosystem.
Choose AISEMA if you:
- Focus primarily on Horizon Europe.
- Build new international consortia regularly.
- Want detailed analysis of funded projects and successful organisations.
- Need predictive insights to prioritise funding opportunities.
Final Verdict
Kaila and AISEMA are closer competitors than many other Horizon Europe platforms, but they still target different needs.
Kaila is best viewed as an innovation intelligence platform. It helps organisations understand the wider European funding landscape, monitor innovation trends and identify collaboration opportunities across many programmes.
AISEMA is more accurately described as a Horizon Europe decision-support platform. It specialises in helping organisations choose the right calls, identify proven partners and assess their chances of success before proposal writing begins.
If your organisation lives almost exclusively within Horizon Europe, AISEMA's specialised focus may provide greater value. If you manage innovation across several European programmes, Kaila offers a broader and more versatile perspective.
Looking for Another Alternative?
If you're looking for software focused specifically on identifying the most relevant Horizon Europe calls, you may also want to explore Grant Radar.
Rather than trying to cover every European funding programme or provide broad innovation intelligence, Grant Radar is designed to help research organisations quickly discover the Horizon Europe opportunities that best match their expertise, projects and strategic priorities.