Out of 44 companies that submitted their proposal, 28 were invited to interview with independent high-level experts. Eight of those met all the eligibility and evaluation criteria and are now put forward for investment decisions by the EIC Fund, subject to due diligence. If negotiations are successful, the companies may receive a combined €146.5 million of equity investments (between €10 and €30 million per company).
The selected companies cover a wide range of strategic technologies for Europe:
- Aignostics (Germany) – transforming drug development and improving patient outcomes with AI
- Alice & Bob (France) – building the first universal quantum computer
- Endurosat (Bulgaria) – making access to space intelligence universal
- Greenland Resources (Denmark (Greenland)) – world class Climax-type molybdenum mineral deposit with by-product magnesium
- Luabio (Denmark) – rebuilding chemical industry by combining AI-designed biocatalysts with waste CO2 as feedstock
- Payload Aerospace (Spain) – global space transportation service provider to support cargo and human spaceflight missions to the Moon and Mars
- Quantware (The Netherlands) – the 3D architecture that leads to faster and exponentially more powerful scaling of quantum computing