EIC Accelerator Support

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Grant

€2.5M

Equity

€10M

The EIC Accelerator helps innovative startups and SMEs develop and scale breakthrough technologies with grant and equity funding.

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Qualification Checklist

Selecting 26 out of 29 items is mandatory to submit your eligibility request.

Company & Founding Team

You are a university or research institute spin-off

Your company originates from transferred research outcomes.

You have a website and a LinkedIn presence

You maintain a public company website and an active LinkedIn presence.

Your website and positioning prioritize European markets

Your core positioning is focused on Europe rather than US- or Asia-first commercialization.

Your founding team includes PhD researchers

At least one founder has a PhD with direct technical relevance to your product.

Your team has strong presentation skills and routinely engages investors

Your core team can present convincingly in investor-facing settings.

Your management team speaks fluent English

Your management team can communicate fluently in English for proposal and interview processes.

Your company has developed the product continuously over multiple years

Development has not been paused for extended periods during recent years.

Investments & Equity

Your founding team holds at least 30% ownership

The founding team currently controls at least 30% of the company equity.

You have raised at least €750,000 in seed investments

Capital was raised from VCs, grants, angel investors, or a combination of these sources.

#10

You are actively engaging investors for upcoming rounds

You are proactively engaging private capital and not avoiding investor outreach.

#11

You can obtain at least 2 VC LOIs for upcoming EIC funding

You can secure at least two letters of intent from venture capital investors.

#12

Your company does not have a foreign holding company in the US or Asia

Your legal holding structure is not centered in US or Asian holding entities.

#13

You do not have over €1 million in debt, excluding convertible notes from early investors

Your non-convertible debt exposure remains below €1 million.

Technology & Product

#14

Your product is hardware-based and not pure software

This also includes hardware-related industrial processes or pharmaceutical technologies.

#15

Your technology is still in development

There is no fully finished final product version yet.

#16

You do not have a finished product that lacks customer interest

Your situation is not a completed product with insufficient market interest.

#17

You are the owner and creator of your core technology

You develop it in-house with your own team. If your core product is AI, you are developing your own models.

#18

Your technology is strategically important for Europe

Your solution aligns with EU strategic priorities, including climate and STEP goals.

#19

You own your core IP

Your company owns the key intellectual property. You did not simply purchase or license it.

#20

You hold or are filing at least one European patent

You have a granted patent or an active filing process for an innovation you invented.

#21

You hold or are filing at least one European hardware patent

You have a granted patent or an active filing process for hardware innovation you invented.

#22

You are at TRL6 with validated prototype data

Your prototype has meaningful validation data or measurements, ideally including customer tests.

Customers & Traction

#23

You can obtain at least 6 customer LOIs

You are actively engaging customers and can secure letters of intent from future buyers.

#24

You have relationships for customer demonstrators

You already have relationships with future customers willing to engage in demonstrators.

#25

There is a strong business case with €50 million revenue potential

Your commercial case indicates that scaling toward €50 million in annual revenue or more is highly feasible.

#26

You have partners and sales channels in place to scale

You already have partner and channel structures that can support growth after development is completed.

Proposal & Interview

#27

You are ready to invest multiple hours in proposal development

Your team is ready to engage actively and allocate substantial time to refine content.

#28

You are committed to extensive final interview coaching

You understand the interview phase is intensive and requires structured preparation.

#29

Your company has not submitted an EIC Accelerator proposal before

This is your first EIC Accelerator proposal submission attempt.

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EIC Accelerator

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€2.5MGrant

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Europe's most prestigious funding program for high-risk, high-impact deep tech startups.

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