Which investor invests in what?

EIT Urban Mobility

EIT Urban Mobility provides financial support of up to €2.5 million per company for early-stage urban mobility startups in an active fundraising round, with an option for equity participation.

Kind

Grant call

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Deadline 16 Nov 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European Commission

Kind

Grant programme

Countries

EU-wide

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European Innovation Council

The EIC Fund provides equity and quasi-equity financing of €0.5m to €30m to deep tech startups, SMEs, and small mid-caps selected through the EIC Accelerator and STEP Scale Up programmes.

Kind

Public investor

Stages

Series A · Series B · Series C+

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Ticket €500K–€30M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

EIT Urban Mobility

Pitch competition by EIT Urban Mobility under the EIT Higher Education Initiative. Early-stage startups previously supported by EIT HEI projects compete for up to €15,000 in cash prizes and tailored mentoring to advance towards market deployment.

Kind

Competition

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Deadline 8 Jul 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

EIT Community New European Bauhaus

Jointly awarded by EIT and EIC, this competition celebrates women founders and leaders driving innovation across Europe, awarding cash prizes of up to €100k across three categories.

Kind

Competition

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Deadline 1 Dec 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European Commission

EU contest celebrating women founders and co-founders from the EU and Horizon Europe associated countries who lead breakthrough innovations, offering prize awards of up to €100,000.

Kind

Competition

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Deadline 1 Dec 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

EIT Urban Mobility

Grant scheme by EIT Urban Mobility offering up to €6,000 in milestone-based funding for students and recent graduates of EIT-labelled programmes to launch urban mobility startups.

Kind

Grant call

Stages

Idea · Pre-seed

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Deadline 12 Oct 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Swiss early-stage VC firm investing in fintech, AI, and digital assets startups across Europe and APAC with tickets ranging from $100k to $1.5m.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Ticket €89.1K–€1.3M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Black Quant

Munich-based deep tech venture fund investing in European quantum technology and quantum-enabling startups from pre-seed to Series A and beyond.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

EU-wide

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Primo Ventures

Primo Space is an Italian venture capital fund investing in early-stage space and space-related deep tech startups across Europe, the UK, Switzerland, Israel, and the US.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

CH, EU-wide, GB +2

Key fact

Ticket €100K–€5M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Expansion

European deeptech VC fund investing from pre-seed to Series B in sustainable aerospace, defence, satellite systems, and robotics.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Typical round €35.4M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Gungnir Capital is an early-stage European venture capital fund investing in defence and dual-use technology companies across Europe, the Nordics, and Ukraine.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

EU-wide, UA

Key fact

Ticket €200K–€1M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Sella Group

Corporate venture arm of Italy's Sella Group providing €250k–€500k in follower tickets to European and Italian early-stage fintech, AI-driven financial solutions, and market infrastructure startups.

Kind

Corporate venture capital

Stages

Seed · Series A

Countries

EU-wide, GB

Key fact

Ticket €250K–€500K

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Exergon is a European thematic deeptech fund investing €0.5M to €5M in pre-seed to Series A startups across new nuclear, energy storage, and energy efficiency & AI.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A · Series B

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Ticket €500K–€5M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

BraveTech EU

Multi-day defence tech competition for EU and Norwegian startups and SMEs with TRL 4+ dual-use solutions. Selected winners receive €120k grants plus access to up to €750k in scale-up funding.

Kind

Competition

Countries

EU-wide, NO

Key fact

Deadline 6 Sep 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Sploro

EU initiative providing €75,000 non-dilutive cascade grants and a 6-month business development programme to women-led deep tech startups at TRL 4–6 across Europe.

Kind

Grant programme

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Ticket €75K–€75K

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European Innovation Council

The EIC Accelerator provides European deep-tech start-ups and SMEs with blended finance, offering grants of up to €2.5M combined with direct equity investments of up to €10M for breakthrough technologies at TRL 6 or higher.

Kind

Accelerator

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Deadline 4 Nov 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Alpha Bank

Four-month fintech acceleration program by Alpha Bank and Endeavor Greece offering mentoring, pilot opportunities, and a €10k–€15k cash grant to early-stage EU fintech startups.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Ticket €10K–€15K

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

AquaSphere Project

An 8-week virtual accelerator funded by EIT HEI for European blue economy startups and scale-ups, providing mentoring, technical validation, and investor readiness support.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Deadline 7 Apr 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European Commission

Six-month space tech accelerator by the EC and EUSPA offering business and investment coaching, events, and non-dilutive funding to European startups and scale-ups using space technologies or data.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Seed

Countries

EU-wide, IS, NO

Key fact

Deadline 2 Oct 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026