Europe’s defence and dual-use technology market is attracting unprecedented attention—but capital remains highly selective. Winnovart’s new market brief examines the investor appetite, emerging funding landscape and M&A activity shaping the sector. It brings together a wider universe of companies and capital providers, highlighting under-the-radar and less obvious companies to watch across...
The European Innovation Council has opened a new chapter for European defence and dual-use innovation. Following its June 2026 update, startups, SMEs and small mid-caps developing technologies with both civilian and defence applications can now access EIC Accelerator grants of up to €2.5 million, equity investments of up to €10 million, and dedicated STEP Defence Scale Up equity funding of...
The EIC has selected the latest group of companies to benefit from the EIC STEP (Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform) Scale Up call. These companies are set to receive up to €90 million in equity investments, pending final decisions by the EIC Fund following due diligence.
We have reviewed the profile of the selected companies (June & April 2025 results) looking at their fundraising...
Read more →At Winnovart, we are very pleased to share that we have recently been confirmed as a service delivery partners for the EIC Access+ programme.
EIC Access+ is an initiative funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to help EIC Awardees and Seal of Excellence holders access specialised services from top-tier providers (EIC service delivery partners) through a co-funding mechanism. Whether...
Read more →The EEA and Norway Grants for the 2021-2028 funding period allocate €3.3 billion to support Europe's green transition, democracy, and social resilience across 15 programme areas. This funding is structured around three overarching priorities:
European Green Transition: Focusing on environmental protection, renewable energy, and climate change mitigation.
Democracy, Rule of Law, and Human...
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, following a public tender in 2024, as part of a consortium led by Jolt Capital a leading European VC/ PE investing in Deeptech.
The purpose of this contract is to provide business and investment insights,...
Read more →The European Innovation Council's 2025 Work Programme has been live for a while now and opens funding opportunities worth over €1.4 billion for strategic technologies and scaling up companies.
🚀 We are introducing theInnovation Fund- one of the world’s largest funding programmes for thedemonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies.
Directly managed by the European Commission, it has a budget 💰 of€4.6 billion to boost net-zero technologies, electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing and renewable hydrogen.
This initiative is designed to support innovative investment...
We are analysing the European Innovation Council’s “EIC Accelerator/ EIC Fund” programme to see if it is successful in bringing in more private investors for the companies involved in its funding scheme. This research investigates the publicly available funding history...
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