European Investment Fund equity mandates (InvestEU, ESCALAR, EIC Fund fund-of-funds)
EIF equity investments in VC and business angel funds
Status not published
Continuous, via published calls for expression of interest addressed to fund managers.
The EIF invests as a limited partner in venture capital funds, business angel co-investment vehicles and technology transfer funds rather than in start-ups directly. Founders benefit indirectly: a large share of European seed and Series A funds are EIF-backed. Ticket sizes into funds run from single-digit to hundreds of millions of euro.
European Investment Fund (EIF)
public · supranational
Deadline: rolling — Continuous, via published calls for expression of interest addressed to fund managers.
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.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Stage: seed, series_a, growth
- Locally registered entity required
Direct applicants must be fund managers or financial intermediaries, not start-ups. Start-ups receive EIF money through the funds it backs.
Source. https://www.eif.org/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked