European Innovation Council
Venture Capital, Government organization, Accelerator/Incubator
Active
Brussels, Belgium
918
4M
615
13.70
146
0.33
7
- Areas of investment
Summary
European Innovation Council appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1957.
We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Computer, Information Technology. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline ultimate.ai, ultimate.ai, Desentum Besides, a startup needs to be aged 6-10 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 4 of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 partaker. Despite the European Innovation Council, startups are often financed by EASME - EU Executive Agency for SMEs, OurCrowd, Maki.vc. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Maki.vc, Horizon 2020, HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.
The common things for fund are deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2019. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 45 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 7-12 investment rounds annually.
Investor highlights
- Industry generalist
- Yes
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
- Check size
- 547K — 16M
Preferences and restrictions
- Restriction
- EIC Accelerator: Applicants from EU Member States and countries associated to the Horizon Europe programme: Single start-up or SME (including spin-outs) ; Small mid-caps (fewer than 499 employees) in need of rapid scale up of the TRL 9 activity. Mid-caps can apply for investment only.; Natural persons or legal entities willing to set up an SMEs or a mid-cap. Applicants from third countries:; Applicants from third countries may relocate their company in order to become eligible. This must be done before submitting the full application (Step 2).; Applicants from the United Kingdom can apply for the "grant only" scheme Concurrent applications: Applicants may submit only one application to the EIC Accelerator. Additional applications can be submitted after receiving the results of the original submission.
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Investments analytics
Analytics
- Total investments
- 918
- Lead investments
- 146
- Exits
- 7
- Rounds per year
- 13.70
- Follow on index
- 0.33
- Investments by industry
- Health Care (226)
- Biotechnology (218)
- Medical Device (157)
- Medical (131)
- Manufacturing (113) Show 263 more
- Investments by region
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- France (145)
- Germany (111)
- Netherlands (45)
- Switzerland (60)
- Spain (61) Show 34 more
- Peak activity year
- 2022
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 7
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 1M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.12
- Avg. company exit year
- 1
- Avg. multiplicator
- 1.57
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| e-peas | 02 Jul 2020 | Semiconductor, Electronics, Energy, Sensor, Battery | Early Stage Venture | 9M | Walloon Brabant, Belgium, Belgium |
| SiPearl | 06 Oct 2021 | Hardware, Semiconductor, Network Hardware | Early Stage Venture | 17M | Ile-de-France, Maisons-laffitte, France |
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