FINNO Pitching Academia – getting start-ups ready for investors
This year, FINNO Pitching Academia, an ONE-MONTH online mentor program that supports early-stage start-ups with their preparation for investors, has start-ups from 7 countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Austria, Latvia, Germany, and Spain, guided by EEN mentors from 10 European countries. Value proposition for applied start-ups: Preparation of [...]
Scaleup Europe Fund to start making investments
Today, the European Commission completed the final legal steps to establish the Scaleup Europe Fund, which will start boosting Europe's scaleup companies to grow faster and compete globally with a target of €5 billion. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “When Europe invests in its innovators, Europe invests in its future. This is the goal of our Scaleup [...]
European startup & scaleup final report 2026
Europe's startup and scaleup ecosystem is growing, but unevenly. This first edition of the European Startup and Scaleup Scoreboard (ESSS) maps all national startup and scaleup ecosystems in the 27 EU Member States, revealing where the EU excels, where it lags, and what it will take to close the gap [...]