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Grants

INVEST – Grant for venture capital (acquisition grant)

INVEST – Zuschuss für Wagniskapital (Erwerbszuschuss)

Status

Status not published

Rolling. The company applies for an eligibility certificate first, then the investor applies before the share purchase contract is signed.

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Amount
€100,000

15% of the investment amount is reimbursed to the business angel. Minimum qualifying investment 10.000 EUR; maximum 100.000 EUR grant per investor per year; maximum 3 Mio. EUR of qualifying investment per company per year across all investors.

Funder

Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle (BAFA)

public · national

Deadline: Open all year — Rolling. The company applies for an eligibility certificate first, then the investor applies before the share purchase contract is signed.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

This is de minimis aid. It counts against the €300,000 ceiling that applies to your company across a rolling three years in this member state (Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/2831). If a new award would take you over, Article 3(7) disqualifies that award in full rather than reducing it — so check your headroom before you apply, not after. Check your headroom for Germany.

Who can apply

Company: less than 7 years old, under 50 employees, turnover or balance-sheet total under 10 Mio. EUR, legal entity registered in the EEA with operations in Germany. Investor: natural person resident in the EEA (or a Business Angels GmbH/UG with max 10 shareholders), first-time investor in that company, not connected to it, must hold the shares at least 3 years.

How to apply

  1. Company applies to BAFA for a Förderfähigkeitsbescheinigung (eligibility certificate). — link
  2. Investor submits their own application to BAFA. — link
  3. Share purchase agreement is signed only after both applications are submitted.
  4. After the shares are acquired and paid, the investor claims the reimbursement.

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · What is de minimis aid?

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.bafa.de/DE/Wirtschaft/Beratung_Finanzierung/Invest/invest_node.html

"Kleine und innovative Unternehmen"

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.bafa.de

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