Europe Backs 40 High-Growth Tech Pioneers in Latest EIC Accelerator Funding Round
Brussels, Belgium – June 30, 2025 – The European Innovation Council (EIC) has announced the selection of 40 innovative companies to receive a total of approximately €229 million in funding under the latest EIC Accelerator program. The results, published today, follow a highly competitive selection process with a grant application cutoff date of March 12, 2025.
The funded startups and SMEs represent the pinnacle of European deep-tech and breakthrough innovation, poised to scale up and compete on the global stage. With an average ticket size of €5.73 million per company, this substantial investment underscores the EIC’s commitment to fostering a new generation of European tech giants.
A staggering 87.5% of the successful applicants, totaling 35 companies, will receive blended finance, a combination of grant funding and equity investment. This popular funding model ensures that companies not only have the resources for research and development but also the long-term financial backing to successfully bring their innovations to market. In this round, four companies (10%) secured grant-only funding, while one company (2.5%) will receive equity-only investment.
The selection process for the EIC Accelerator is notoriously rigorous. While the total number of applicants for the initial stages (Step 1 and Step 2) was not disclosed, the success rate for companies that reached the final interview stage (Step 3) stood at 27%.
Diverse Representation Across Europe
The 40 winning companies hail from 16 different countries, showcasing a broad geographical distribution of innovation across the continent. Germany leads the pack with seven funded companies (17.5%), followed closely by Spain with five (12.5%). The Netherlands and Sweden each saw four companies selected (10%), while France and the United Kingdom both have three successful applicants (7.5%).
Other countries represented among the winners include Denmark, Finland, Ireland, and Poland, each with two companies. Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Israel, Italy, and Luxembourg each have one company receiving funding.
This diverse cohort of winners reflects the EIC’s mission to support excellence in innovation wherever it may arise within the European Research Area and associated countries. The variety of sectors and technologies represented, from life sciences and digital technologies to energy and sustainability, highlights the multifaceted nature of Europe’s innovation landscape.
The successful companies will now enter into grant agreement preparations and will be supported by the EIC Fund for the equity investment component. This financial injection will be complemented by access to the EIC’s Business Acceleration Services, providing coaching, mentoring, and networking opportunities to help them navigate the challenges of scaling up.
The next opportunity for ambitious startups and SMEs to apply for the EIC Accelerator will be the upcoming grant application cutoff for Step 2 on October 1, 2025.
Raw Data
Type of Funding
- Blended Finance: 35 companies (87.5%)
- Equity Only: 1 company (2.5%)
- Grant Only: 4 companies (10%)
Budget
- Total Budget: €229 million
- Average ticket size: €5.73 million
Deadlines
- Grant application cutoff date for Step 2: March 12th 2025
- Published results date: June 30th 2025
Success Rates
- Step 3: 40 out of 150 (27%)
- Step 1 and Step 2 applicant numbers were not published.
EIC Accelerator Winners
There are 16 different countries among the funded companies.
Total winners: 40 companies
EIC Accelerator Country Distribution
- Germany (7 companies and 17.5%)
- Spain (5 companies and 12.5%)
- Netherlands (4 companies and 10%)
- Sweden (4 companies and 10%)
- France (3 companies and 7.5%)
- United Kingdom (3 companies and 7.5%)
- Denmark (2 companies and 5%)
- Finland (2 companies and 5%)
- Ireland (2 companies and 5%)
- Poland (2 companies and 5%)
- Austria (1 company and 2.5%)
- Belgium (1 company and 2.5%)
- Czechia (1 company and 2.5%)
- Israel (1 company and 2.5%)
- Italy (1 company and 2.5%)
- Luxembourg (1 company and 2.5%)
Full EIC Accelerator Beneficiary List
| Company | Acronym | Description | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TURBULENCE SOLUTIONS GMBH | TurbulenceCancelling | Innovation Activities to mature Turbulence Cancelling Technology for Light and Business Aircraft from TRL 6 to TRL 8 as Key Enabling Technology for the Future of Sustainable Air Mobility | Austria | 2025 |
| AMPHISTAR | Surfact | Upcycled BioSURFACTants: time to ACT! | Belgium | 2025 |
| ROBOTWIN SRO | Neurofabrix | Digital solution for robotizing manufacturing operations that learns from human demonstrations, allows workers to supervise its outputs and receives feedback to immediately correct its imperfections. | Czechia | 2025 |
| AGROBIOMICS APS | SUBTARC | Scaling Up Biostimulant Technology for Agriculture Resilient to Climate change | Denmark | 2025 |
| COPENHAGEN ATOMICS AS | Th-MSR | Powering Tomorrow with the Next-Gen Thorium Molten Salt Reactors to Burn Nuclear Waste | Denmark | 2025 |
| CeLLife Technologies Oy | PerBatt | Revolutionizing Battery Diagnostics with a novel impedance signal processing system | Finland | 2025 |
| GEYSER BATTERIES OY | GEYSER | Aqueous Power Batteries to enable the Future Energy System | Finland | 2025 |
| Oligofeed | OLIGOFEED_EU | OLIGOFEED | France | 2025 |
| SUBLIME Energie | SUBLIME Energie | Unique biogas liquefaction and transport technology to unlock on-farm methanisation | France | 2025 |
| SCIENTA LAB | PRISM | Predictive Research for Inflammatory Systems Medicine | France | 2025 |
| ExpectedIT GmbH | Lpool | LPool - Rack-scale servers to Revolutionize AI Datacenters for Fast, Sustainable, Cost-efficient Computing | Germany | 2025 |
| RooflineAI GmbH | ROOFLINE | Retargetable AI Compiler Technology for Scalable Edge Deployment of Next-Generation AI Models | Germany | 2025 |
| SPINNCLOUD SYSTEMS GMBH | SpiNNext | Brain-inspired Computing for Next Generation Generative Artificial Intelligence | Germany | 2025 |
| BEEOLED GMBH | beeUP | Upscaling of blue elementary emitter to revolutionize OLED manufacturing | Germany | 2025 |
| plasmotion GmbH | 3D JETPEP Finishing | 3D JETPEP - REVOLUTIONIZING HIGH-VALUE MANUFACTURING WITH MULTI-AXIS JET PLASMA FINISHING | Germany | 2025 |
| EBENBUILD GMBH | Twinhale | In silico trials for pulmonary drug delivery with breakthrough digital twins of the lungs | Germany | 2025 |
| Symphera GmbH | Symphera | Symphera: Revolutionizing laparoscopic surgery through automated in-body tool switching | Germany | 2025 |
| RESTORED HEARING LIMITED | MUSE | Materials for the Ultimate Sound reduction in the Environment | Ireland | 2025 |
| CROIVALVE LIMITED | DUO 4 ALL | DUO 4 ALL | Ireland | 2025 |
| RepAir DAC Ltd. | StackDAC | Direct Air Carbon Capture designed for the Gigaton Scale | Israel | 2025 |
| CIRCULAR MATERIALS SRL | Circular Materials | Circular Materials Hub- an innovative low carbon intensity process that efficiently recovers over 99% of critical raw materials from industrial wastewater | Italy | 2025 |
| Space Cargo Unlimited | BentoBox | A scalable and optimised platform for microgravity research and the return of useful charges | Luxembourg | 2025 |
| Photosynthetic B.V. | Photosynthetic | Unlocking production-speed additive manufacturing at the micro-scale | Netherlands | 2025 |
| Groove Quantum B.V. | DISQO | Manufacturing quantum advantage via scalable germanium quantum processors | Netherlands | 2025 |
| Q* BIRD BV | QBird B.V. | Next-Generation Quantum Key Distribution for a Secure Digital Future | Netherlands | 2025 |
| TargED Biopharmaceuticals B.V. | TANO-TAC | Thrombolytic Nanobody Therapy for Dissolving All Types of Blood Clots | Netherlands | 2025 |
| Proteine Resources Sp. z o.o. | ProteinBoost | SUSTAINABLE UPCYCLING OF AGRICULTURAL BYPRODUCTS INTO ENHANCED PROTEINS FOR OPTIMAL NUTRITION OF ANIMALS | Poland | 2025 |
| Apisense SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIA | S.A.F.E. | Revolutionizing Apiculture with the first AI-driven monitoring system using bee pheromones and satellite data | Poland | 2025 |
| BYTELAB SOLUTIONS SL | NEXTBIOMOL | THE COMPUTATIONAL LABORATORY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION SUSTAINABLE CHEMICALS AND DIGITAL TRANSITION | Spain | 2025 |
| Singularly, S.L. | NeuralTrust | LEADING CYBERSECURITY IN THE GENERATIVE AI ERA | Spain | 2025 |
| Basquevolt SA | Electro-Lite | Semi-solid polymer electrolyte enabling more affordable, sustainable and performant EV batteries | Spain | 2025 |
| HYDROGEN ONSITE, SL | H2SITE | A NEXT-GEN AMMONIA CRACKING: UNLOCKING HIGH H2 RECOVERY, ON DEMAND, LOW-CARBON HYDROGEN | Spain | 2025 |
| ONCOMATRYX BIOPHARMA SL | ONCO-DART | Pioneering antibody-drug conjugates targeting the tumour microenvironment to deliver transformative new therapies in oncology | Spain | 2025 |
| Nordic Bio-Graphite AB | Fossil-Free Graphite | Fossil-Free Graphite by Nordic Bio-Graphite: Advancing Sustainability and Resilience in Critical Raw Materials Supply Chains | Sweden | 2025 |
| Zparq AB | ZPARQ-Z10 | ZPARQ Z10: Challenging the Limits of Marine Propulsion | Sweden | 2025 |
| Single Technologies AB | Theta128 | Breaking the 2-dimensional sequencing barrier with ultra low-cost (<$10), fast 3D image-based sequencing | Sweden | 2025 |
| Pixelgen Technologies AB | PNA | Proximity Network Assay: driving the future of high-resolution protein interactomics in 3D for precision medicine, drug discovery, and molecular diagnostics | Sweden | 2025 |
| Quantum Dice Limited | Q-TASTic | Quantum Technologies Accelerating Stochastic Tasks | United Kingdom | 2025 |
| Rheenergise Limited | LDES-HDHydro | Long-Duration Energy Storage using High-Density Hydro | United Kingdom | 2025 |
| Mitra Bio | MitraTest | A NOVEL NON-INVASIVE DNA METHYLATION TEST FOR MELANOMA | United Kingdom | 2025 |
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