InvestHorizon 2.0: Boosting the investment readiness of European SMEs
The Commission aims to offer support to innovative high-growth potential SMEs from EU Member States, Associated countries to Horizon 2020 and EUREKA member countries to improve their access to finance.
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The Contractor will provide investment readiness services, which aim to help and prepare innovative high-growth potential SMEs to become investment ready and scale-up.
The services will be customized for each SME according to the specific needs identified within the frame of the services described in the Tender specifications.
- Open services, for any registered SME, described hereinafter, such as online courses, presentations, access to expert’s databases, etc.
- Investment readiness (IR) services, for innovative high-growth potential SMEs. Eligible SMEs must comply with the following conditions:
o Open to SMEs from an EU Member State, Associated country to Horizon 2020 and EUREKA member countries, Partner countries or Associated countries to EUREKA complying with the EU SME definition;
o SMEs that qualify as ‘innovative high-growth potential SME’ according to the specific methodology proposed by the contractor;
o SMEs must have raised seed finance and must be searching series A round;
- SMEs must develop products and services in the field of deep-tech.
The total budget for the action is EUR 3 million.
More information available here.