#Grants

A curated guide to European and national non-dilutive funding opportunities—from EIC Accelerator and Eurostars to NWO Take-off, EXIST, and Innovate UK—enabling deep tech hardware founders to bridge the lab-to-market gap without premature equity dilution.

Securing funding for deep tech hardware startups in Europe represents a unique set of challenges, often requiring a strategic pivot from purely academic research to commercial productization. While founders frequently leverage various non-dilutive grants across Europe to finance early feasibility studies, the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator stands out as …

Securing the initial grant for a deep tech instrument is a monumental achievement in academic research. However, researchers and Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) frequently encounter a critical and often under-discussed challenge once the prototype is built: funding the ongoing maintenance, calibration, and iterative improvement of complex hardware. The gap between …

Horizon Europe presents an unprecedented opportunity for funding large-scale deep tech innovations, but securing and managing these multi-million euro grants requires navigating the complex dynamics of international consortia. These collaborative projects inherently involve bridging the gap between academic institutions, focused on fundamental research, and industrial partners, driven by commercial productization …