3 Sep 2024
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The EIC Scaling Club wouldn't be complete without the presence of the leading investors, corporates, and agencies – an inalienable ingredient of successful scaling.
After a period of an open call for an expression of interest, more than 25 stakeholders in the Agri & Food Tech sector have joined the Club, a curated community that is made up of companies, investors, corporate innovators, mentors, media firms and other industry stakeholders.
The Agri & Food Tech sector is one of several market opportunities addressed by the EIC Scaling Club, each of which has a dedicated group manager to support Club Members to achieve the Club's ultimate goal – of scaling European deep tech companies into unicorns.
Interested in joining?
Additional stakeholders who believe that they can play a role in supporting Europe's most prospective deep tech startups are invited to express interest in joining the Scaling Club – simply go to the main page and click “Express Interest” to fill out the form to be considered. Applications will be open until the end of June 2024.
Meet the second cohort of Agri & Food Tech stakeholders below:
Investors & Corporates
AB InBev
Capagro
Catalyst Romania
Czech Founders VC
Eleven Ventures
Fortino Capital
Future Food Fund
Hatch Blue
Indaco Venture Partners
Intesa Sanpaolo
LIBERSET
MaserGrup
MK Group
GET Fund
NCBR Investment Fund ASI S.A.
Nightfall Ventures
PMV
Sparkfood
VIGO Ventures
Agencies & public funds
ACCIÓ
European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA)
EIT Food
EPIC - EUROPEAN PHOTONICS INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM
Startup.Flanders
Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT)
Invitalia
Solar Impulse Foundation
A very warm welcome aboard!
About the EIC Scaling Club
The EIC Scaling Club is a curated community where 120+ European deep tech scale-ups with the potential to build world-class businesses and solve major global challenges come together with investors, corporate innovators and other industry stakeholders to spur growth.
The top 120+ European deep tech companies will be carefully selected from a pool of high-growth scale-ups that have benefitted from EIC financial schemes, other European and national innovation programmes, and beyond.
The EIC Scaling Club is an EIC-funded initiative run in partnership by Tech Tour, Bpifrance (EuroQuity), Hello Tomorrow, Tech.eu (Webrazzi), EurA and IESE Business School.
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