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Equity

European Investment Fund equity mandates (InvestEU, ESCALAR, EIC Fund fund-of-funds)

EIF equity investments in VC and business angel funds

Status

Status not published

Continuous, via published calls for expression of interest addressed to fund managers.

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Amount
Not published

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.

Funder

European Investment Fund (EIF)

public · supranational

Deadline: Open all year — Continuous, via published calls for expression of interest addressed to fund managers.

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
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Direct applicants must be fund managers or financial intermediaries, not start-ups. Start-ups receive EIF money through the funds it backs.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

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Source. https://www.eif.org/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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