🌷 Greetings from Winnovart!
March is here! From all of us @Winnovart, we hope your Spring 2025 will be filled with ☀️ More sun, 😃 More smiles, 💰 More fundraising & investment! 🚀
Welcome to our latest Funding Express!
News, updates and insights from the grants-funding ecosystem in Europe. Blended funding schemes bringing together innovation grants and venture capital. Supporting more grants-funding for VC backed companies and more VC investment into grants-funded companies. Government funding & Venture Capital. Government VC programmes supporting the ecosystem in the CEE.
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🏆 EIC Contract for Winnovart
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a contract by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to deliver “Business and Investment Insights for EIC Strategic Intelligence” services! 🎉 as part of a consortium with a prominent European VC. This follows extensive independent research we have conducted in recent years on blended funding programmes in Europe, along with awareness-raising initiatives across the VC ecosystem Read more ...
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Funding Programmes we are tracking 📍
🚀 EIC STEP Scale UpThe new equity investment instrument introduced by the EIC in late 2024, with €300 million annually for equity investments of €10-30 million, to supporting high-risk companies that are driving critical innovations. Equity investments only, as co-investments with private VCs. Read more ...
🌍 Innovation FundOne of the world’s largest funding programmes for the demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies. Directly managed by the European Commission, with a budget 💰 of €4.6 billion to boost net-zero technologies, electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing and renewable hydrogen. We believe this is an opportunity for industrial companies to adopt highly innovative technologies developed by VC-backed companies in the Net Zero / Energy space. Read more ...
🤝 EEA & Norway GrantsOur favourite regional funding mechanism for the CEE/ SEE, including bilateral collaborations with the Donor States (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein). We have a very special history with the EEA & Norway grants and probably the most successful fundraising experience with the programmes operated by Innovation Norway across the target region. A new series of funding programmes expected to open during 2025-2026. Read more…
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Our Favourite Research Topics 🔬
💡 Government Funding & Venture CapitalWe will continue expanding our ongoing research on everything Government funding & Venture Capital. We are aiming to put together the most comprehensive list of programmes that bring together Government funding & Venture Capital. Blended finance and Investor partnership programmes mixing grants & private investment. Co-investment programmes between Government agencies and Private Investors. Government funding programmes directly for Venture Capital. At Winnovart. We believe in this synergy and we will keep raising awareness around it. Please check out and contribute to our list of resources (including statistics, insights, literature review etc) here ... Read more … |
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📚 Studies & Reports Worth ReadingStudies and reports we've come across in recent months and are definitely worth reading ... :
🔹 EIC Tech Report 2024 - identifies 34 emerging technologies for the future of European Competitiveness … Read more here …
🔹 EIC Deeptech report by Jolt Capital (open here)... a data-driven report with insights about the results of Europe's flagship innovation funding & investment programme. A source of inspiration for funding agencies ...
🔹 EEA & Norway Grants - Results of the 2024 public consultation - statistics & insights that will very likely be considered for the new support programmes … Read more here…
🔹 UKRI/ Innovate UK - BridgeAI. Very good report on AI Use Cases Framework ... an actionable and customisable framework to support the AI adoption journey by businesses, government officials, regulators etc. Read more here ...
🔹 European Patent Office - Mapping Investors for European innovators. Excellent report showing disparities between various European ecosystems, but also comparisons between US and Europe. Introducing a technology investor score ... Read more here |
More News & Updates 📢 ...
... from friends, cooperation partners and stakeholders in the ecosystem
🎓 Training programmes & Learning experiences in Venture Capital. We’ve spent quite a bit of time in recent years engaging with the Venture Capital sector. We enjoyed attending the Newton Venture programme (more details here) in London, probably the best and most engaging of its kind. Very much recommended to anyone interested in the topic, including those from less developed fundraising & investment ecosystems 🚀
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At Winnovart, it is part of our mission to bridge the gap between government funding and venture capital in Europe.
We believe government funding plays a crucial role in creating and developing ecosystems that drive innovation, foster growth, and reduce regional disparities across Europe. The synergy between government funding and private investment has consistently demonstrated positive effects on recipient companies and their ecosystems. Our goal is to help innovative companies, private investors, and funding agencies maximize the benefits of this synergy.
We provide independent funding advisory, intelligence, facilitate access to funding stakeholders and, occasionally, engage in direct investments. |
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