Startup funding in Romania
564 active investors, grants and programmes open to startups based in Romania, including EU-wide instruments.
INNOVA
Six-month equity-free accelerator for EU-registered small deep-tech companies (TRL 5–8) decarbonising chemicals, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals, and refining.
- Kind
- Accelerator
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 8 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
European Commission
An eight-month accelerator for European startups and scale-ups developing defence and dual-use technologies. Delivered by Starburst, it provides coaching, bootcamps, and a €120,000 seed funding voucher.
- Kind
- Accelerator
- Stages
- Seed
- Countries
- EU-wide, NO
- Key fact
- Deadline 16 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
HARD2SCALE
Free accelerator supporting EU deep-tech startups (TRL 5-8) addressing decarbonization in energy-intensive and molecular transformation industries with workshops, corporate matchmaking, and travel support.
- Kind
- Accelerator
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 8 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
RollingEuropean Commission
- Kind
- Grant programme
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
European Commission
- Kind
- Grant call
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 11 Dec 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
European Commission
- Kind
- Grant call
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 13 Jan 2027
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
European Commission
- Kind
- Grant call
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 23 Sep 2027
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
European Commission
- Kind
- Grant call
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 23 Sep 2027
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
European Commission
- Kind
- Grant call
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 23 Sep 2027
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
European Commission
- Kind
- Grant call
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 18 Jan 2027
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
HCVC
RollingHCVC is an early-stage venture capital firm investing at pre-seed and seed in hardtech, deep tech, and hardware founders across Europe and the US.
- Kind
- Venture capital
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed
- Countries
- EU-wide, US
- Last verified
- Verified 8 Nov 2026
EUDIS
An 8-month defence acceleration programme providing 20 European startups and scale-ups with a €120k seed funding voucher, bootcamps across Europe, business mentoring, and testing facilities.
- Kind
- Accelerator
- Stages
- Seed
- Countries
- EU-wide, NO
- Key fact
- Deadline 16 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 7 Nov 2026
LLM-BRIDGE
Closed, next round expectedEuropean support programme offering incubation, education, and acceleration for generative AI and LLM startups from pre-seed to Series A, with mentoring, compute access, and €25,000 for top teams.
- Kind
- Accelerator
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Series A
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 18 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 7 Nov 2026
FIERCE
FIERCE 2nd Open Call provides vouchers of up to €50,000 to European SMEs and startups to adopt downstream space data (e.g., Earth Observation, satellite navigation) for green, circular, and environmental solutions.
- Kind
- Grant programme
- Stages
- Idea
- Countries
- CH, EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 9 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 7 Nov 2026
EIT Community New European Bauhaus
EIT Culture & Creativity offers up to €30,000 and a 9-month venture-creation programme for early-stage founders building tech ventures in materials, the built environment, fashion, and circular materials.
- Kind
- Accelerator
- Stages
- Idea · Pre-seed
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 16 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 7 Nov 2026
LLM-BRIDGE Consortium
A 14-week equity-free acceleration programme providing European GenAI and language technology scale-ups with expert advisory, European HPC compute access, regulatory guidance, and investor matchmaking.
- Kind
- Accelerator
- Stages
- Seed · Series A
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 18 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 7 Nov 2026
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
European grant call funding projects that build scalable, industry-ready neutral-atom quantum computing and simulation platforms, complete software stacks, and real-world scientific or industrial use cases.
- Kind
- Grant programme
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 17 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 7 Nov 2026
RENEW-BOOSTER Consortium
BattleVerse OC1 provides lump-sum grants of up to €60,000 per beneficiary for six-month experiments integrating LLM decision support, multi-physics simulation, or distributed AI for unmanned swarms into the European Defence Fund simulation ecosystem.
- Kind
- Grant programme
- Countries
- EU-wide, NO, UA
- Key fact
- Deadline 16 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 7 Nov 2026
EIT Community New European Bauhaus
EIT Urban Mobility co-invests in early-stage startups tackling urban mobility challenges, participating in active fundraising rounds alongside private investors.
- Kind
- Public investor
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Series A
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 16 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 7 Nov 2026
EIT Urban Mobility
EIT Urban Mobility offers co-investment of up to €2.5 million for pre-seed, seed, and Series A startups addressing urban mobility, logistics, and electrification in active funding rounds.
- Kind
- Public investor
- Stages
- Pre-seed · Seed · Series A
- Countries
- EU-wide
- Key fact
- Deadline 16 Nov 2026
- Last verified
- Verified 7 Nov 2026