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European Commission

Six-month space tech accelerator by the EC and EUSPA offering business and investment coaching, events, and non-dilutive funding to European startups and scale-ups using space technologies or data.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Seed

Countries

EU-wide, IS, NO

Key fact

Deadline 2 Oct 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

BSC-CNS

A 14-week equity-free hybrid accelerator in Spain for up to 100 AI-native startups, providing mentoring, workspace, investor connections, and access to the MareNostrum 5 supercomputer.

Kind

Accelerator

Countries

Spain

Key fact

Ticket €4.5K–€4.5K

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Zubi Capital

Zubi Capital provides flexible, non-dilutive impact venture debt financing to support early-stage European startups tackling environmental and social challenges.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Countries

Any country

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

BIO-All

Acceleration program offering business support, mentoring, masterclasses, and demo day pitching for seed and early-stage companies in biohealth and pharmaceuticals.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Countries

Any country

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Startup Wise Guys

A 14-week hybrid accelerator for early-stage B2B startups from Kosovo and North Macedonia run by Startup Wise Guys, offering mentoring and potential initial investment of up to €50,000.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Countries

MK, XK

Key fact

Deadline 18 May 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

BioInnovation Institute

A 12-month accelerator program by BioInnovation Institute providing early-stage European life science startups with a €500,000 convertible loan, mentoring, and support in therapeutics and planetary health.

Kind

Accelerator

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed

Countries

AT, BE, BG +28

Key fact

Ticket €500K–€500K

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European Investment Bank

EIB Venture Debt provides quasi-equity loans to innovative European tech startups and cleantech scale-ups, typically offering tickets between €15m and €50m on a co-investment basis.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Series B · Series C+

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Ticket €15M–€50M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European Investment Bank

Venture debt financing offered by the European Investment Bank to eligible growth companies through a multi-step pre-screening and appraisal process.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Series B · Series C+

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Ticket €10M–€50M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Skate Ventures is a venture capital firm providing pre-seed, seed, and Series A equity funding alongside hands-on operational guidance to early-stage founders globally.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series A

Countries

Any country

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Commerzbank

Commerzbank provides debt financing and structured lending solutions for European defence and security scale-ups and SMEs to support expansion, scaling, and working capital without equity dilution.

Kind

Loan

Stages

Series B · Series C+

Countries

Any country

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Redstone

Redstone offers venture debt financing of €1M to €3M for European startups with proven product-market fit, supporting expansion from Seed to Series B across deeptech, software, and health sectors.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Seed · Series A · Series B

Countries

Any country

Key fact

Ticket €1M–€3M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Spanish venture capital fund investing €1M–€5M in hardware-focused infrastructure technologies at the intersection of energy, industrial systems, and digital hardware.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Seed · Series A · Series B

Countries

Any country

Key fact

Ticket €1M–€5M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Nighthawk Partners

Nighthawk Partners provides amortising venture debt term loans ranging from £1m to £50m+ for VC-backed tech companies from Series A across the UK, EU, Israel, and the Gulf.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Series A · Series B · Series C+

Countries

EU-wide, GB, IL

Key fact

Ticket €1.2M–€60M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European growth-credit provider originating and structuring €1–3M senior-secured debt facilities for late-seed and Series A B2B technology businesses.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Seed · Series A

Countries

EU-wide, GB, IS +2

Key fact

Ticket €1M–€3M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland

NLC Health Impact Seed Fund invests from €150k in Dutch healthtech, medtech, and biotech startups transforming scientific discoveries into healthcare innovations.

Kind

Venture capital

Stages

Seed

Countries

Netherlands

Key fact

Ticket €150K+

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

UniCap

UniCap provides flexible credit lines and debt financing from 500k to 30M for early-stage and growth businesses in the EU, UK, and US through a network of 200 lenders.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Pre-seed · Seed · Series B · Series C+

Countries

EU-wide, GB, US

Key fact

Ticket €500K–€30M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Business Riihimäki

Business Riihimäki and the DEFINE network offer a €20,000 convertible loan to support market readiness for Riihimäki-based defence, security, and dual-use technology startups.

Kind

Loan

Countries

Finland

Key fact

Deadline 31 Aug 2026

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Belgian impact-first fund backed by CM investing in healthcare innovation. Provides equity or convertible loans to seed and Series A companies focused on sustainable care and positive health.

Kind

Corporate venture capital

Stages

Seed · Series A

Countries

Belgium

Key fact

Ticket up to €500K

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

Gilion

Gilion provides non-dilutive growth loans and seasonal credit of up to €10m for European tech companies and startups based on ARR, featuring interest-only periods and no warrants or equity kickers.

Kind

Loan

Countries

Any country

Key fact

Ticket up to €10M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026

European Commission

HERA Invest provides venture debt financing via the EIB to innovative European SMEs and mid-caps developing medical countermeasures against priority health threats, such as pandemics, CBRN, and AMR.

Kind

Venture debt

Stages

Seed · Series A · Series B · Series C+

Countries

EU-wide

Key fact

Ticket €15M–€40M

Last verified

Verified 7 Nov 2026