European Investment Bank

A European Investment Bank-run ‘fund of funds’ aims to further French-led ambitions for a globally competitive EU tech industry

The first steps are underway to devise new ways of financing cybersecurity start-ups and scale-ups, to fill a €1.75B investment gap. Currently, European companies ‘tend to underperform against their international peers’ and ‘generally raise less funding,’ says the Commission

Research ministers tell the Commission to make sure any new initiatives that involve taking money from Horizon Europe are first subject to political discussions within the EU’s formal decision-making process

Investor groups tell EU research commissioner to allocate special funding to female-led venture capital firms in bid to boost female entrepreneurship