Welcome to our weekly update of grants and new funding options for European and UK tech startups!
European funding
EIC Accelerator closing on October 3, 2024 – +€650 million for deep tech startups
EIC Pathfinder Challenges closing on October 16, 2024 – €136 million for breakthrough technologies at low TRLs
EIC Transition closing on September 18, 2024– grants of up to €2.5M to validate and demonstrate technology
Innovation Fund closing on April 9, 2024 – €4 billion for decarbonisation technologies
Eurostars closing on September, 2024 – +€100 million for international collaborative R&D projects
CBRN-E detection capacities in small architecture closing on November 20, 2024 – more than 40M€ to fight crime and terrorism.
Resilient and secure urban planning and new tools for EU territorial entities closing on November 20, 2024 – more than 16M€ to fund resilient and secure urban planning tools.
One topic closing on November 20, 2024 – more than 16M€ to fund new, upcoming or unforeseen challenges and/or creative or disruptive solutions for increasing the resilience of critical infrastructure, that are not covered by the other topics of Horizon Europe Calls Resilient Infrastructure 2021-2022, Resilient Infrastructure 2023 and Resilient Infrastructure 2024.
UK funding
IUK Smart grant closing on April 24, 2024 – 25M£ for game-changing and commercially viable R&D innovations
Doctoral focal awards in the environmental sciences 2024 closing on April 9, 2024– £11.4 million to deliver a doctoral focal award to address priority or emerging training needs within the environmental sciences.
Unlocking nature positive private investment closing on April 10, 2024– £2 million for developing solutions that enable private investors to invest in nature positive projects. This funding is from Innovate UK.
South Africa-UK health research collaboration: non-communicable diseases closing on April 12, 2024– £3 million to fund health research applications in the focus area of non–communicable diseases (NCDs)
Other interesting updates!
Entourage Ventures – new VC fund worth €30M to build and fund B2B SaaS businesses.
Earlybird Ventures- new VC fund worth €2B to help innovative technology companies excel.
Founderful – new VC fund worth €78M to support Swiss startups in their international expansion efforts.
