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Women TechEU Open Call
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Run by Women TechEU 2 EIC · TRL 4 to 6 · Can apply alone
14 Jan 2027
Deadline
€75k
Per company
€12M
Total for all companies
What this call funds
This call gives non diluting grants of 75,000 euros to early stage, women led deep tech startups across the EU and Horizon Europe associated countries. On top of the grant, winners get a six month business development programme with mentoring, investor readiness support and access to events and networks. The goal is to help these startups scale up and eventually move toward larger schemes like the EIC Accelerator.
deep tech · sme scaleup · gender equality · research excellence
Who wins this
An early stage, women led deep tech startup in an EU or Horizon Europe associated country that is between TRL 4 and TRL 6 and has raised less than one million euros in equity.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €75k
- Submission
- Multiple cut-offs (rolling call with several deadlines)
- Cut-off dates (4)
- 16 Sep 2026 · 14 Jan 2027 · 1 Apr 2027 · 8 Jul 2027
- Type of action
- Cascade funding
- Partners
- Not required. You can apply on your own.
- Eligible applicants
- startup, SME
- Support to third parties
- Each selected startup receives a grant of 75,000 euros as non diluting finance under this cascade funding scheme.
- Also required
- Applicant must be registered for at least six months and at most five years, have raised less than 1M euros in equity, be founded or co founded by a woman holding a top management position and at least 25% of shares, and must not have been previously funded by prior Women TechEU editions or the EIC Accelerator.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
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