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Europe’s CreaTech ecosystem is emerging at the intersection of cultural and creative industries, deeptech and digital innovation, spanning AI-enabled creative tools, FashionTech, audiovisual and music technologies, gaming, immersive experiences, cultural technologies and advanced materials. The opportunity extends beyond traditional creative businesses to scalable software platforms, proprietary...
European philanthropy represents a substantial but still underexplored part of Europe’s innovation capital landscape. With more than €500 billion in foundation assets, the opportunity extends well beyond traditional grant-making to proof-of-concept and translational funding, venture philanthropy, mission-related investment, direct equity and fund investment. Winnovart’s latest Market Brief...
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...
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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 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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This research focuses on the top Venture Capital firms located across several European regions: France & Benelux, Nordics, DACH, Southern Europe, UK & Ireland, CEE, and Israel.
For each investor/VC, we identified what investment stage they specialise in (pre-seed, seed, series A) and the number of companies in their portfolio. From their investment profile, we filtered through all the companies...
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We are constantly analysing if the EIC Accelerator/ EIC Fund - EC's flagship innovation funding programme succeeds in identifying European outliers and overseen game-changing innovators OR it supports companies already funded by private investors. This research looks into the...
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The EIC Board released a statement, aiming to double the participation of widening countries (Central-Eastern Europe) in EIC programmes from below 8% to at least 15%.
EIC's New Participation Targets for Widening Countries. The EIC Board has set an ambitious target: to bolster the participation of widening countries in EIC instruments to a commendable 15%, a marked rise from the existing...
