EIT Health is a non-profit organisation, incubator and one of the biggest European public-private partnership in the field of healthcare innovation.

Comprised of over 140 Partners, EIT Health is a unique European network of top companies, universities, research and development centres, as well as hospitals and institutes. EIT Health’s role is to build an ecosystem that enables the development of healthcare for the future so that European citizens are able to live longer and healthier lives.

 

 

Fields of interest: health.

Waiting for startups with: innovative healthcare ideas.

Benefits for startups: access to EU knowledge and innovation communities, networking, industry events, community, training, mentoring, special programs, partnership with accelerator programs, investment, finding potential partners and clients in Europe,  help in commercialisation of innovative health products, solutions.

Fund range per team: 25 000 Eur.

Investment conditions: : equity free investment (conditions may vary depending on different program).

EIT Food Hub – operates as a coordinator of EIT Food activities in Regional Innovation Scheme (RIS) countries.

EIT Food is Europe’s leading food innovation initiative, working to make the food system more sustainable, healthy and trusted by consumers. EIT Food Hub seeks to implement numerous agri-food related activities, transfers the best practices of EIT Food to their respective countries/regions, working with local agri-food stakeholder networks to strengthen their innovative capacities, promotes the brand visibility of EIT in targeted countries and carries out localized activities as part of the EIT Food RIS portfolio. EIT Food Hub targets talents and stakeholders from the three different knowledge triangle pillars – research, education and business. EIT Food is seeking to engage consumers in the change process, improve nutrition and make food system more resource-efficient, secure, transparent ant trusted.

Fields of interest: agrifood.

Waiting for startups with: team, MVP, incomes.

Benefits for startups: access to EU knowledge and innovation communities, networking, industry events, community, training, mentoring, special programs, partnership with accelerator programs, investment, finding potential partners and clients in Europe.

Fund range per team: 10 000 Eur.

Investment conditions: equity free investment (conditions may vary depending on different program).

The accelerator which is a unique and proven entrepreneurship promotion methodology aimed to help young people to create new promising businesses. CREAzone works by combining innovative knowledge economy driven ideas with business models in traditional industries thus contributing to the long-term and sustainable rise of employment in the Lithuanian Latvian cross-border region. The organization is an entrepreneurship development methodology designed to connect entrepreneurial individuals together with new business models and creative inventions – to empower them to organically become perspective entrepreneurs with new high-growth businesses. Fields of interest: all innovative ideas. Waiting for startups with: team, MVP. Benefits for startups: training, team building, mentoring, networking.
The program aims to increase the attractiveness of Kaunas city as a destination for startups.  Kaunas Startups focuses on raising the level of entrepreneurship, providing necessary skills to launch and operate one’s business, consolidating different parts of the startup ecosystem, and preparing startups for funding rounds. The program consists of two parts: pre-acceleration and networking.  Fields of interest: healthcare, education and B2B SaaS.  Waiting for startups with: idea, team, MVP.  Benefits for startups: training, mentoring, networking, events, workshops, community. 

Accelerates and invests in sustainable energy innovations from mobility to construction, from renewable energy sources to smarter storage. 

EIT InnoEnergy commercially-attractive technologies are the product of a trusted ecosystem for sustainable energy. EIT InnoEnergy has invested in more than 400 assets, 120 of which provide ROI with a forecasted revenue of 10-13 million euros. EIT InnoEnergy also brings together 430+ key players from different countries, who have indirect access to 150 million energy consumers. 

 

Fields of interest: energy storage, smart and efficient buildings and cities, renewable energies, smart electric grid, energy efficiency, nuclear instrumentation, energy for the circular economy, energy for transport and mobility. 

Waiting for startups with: team, prototype. 

Benefits for startups: mentoring, investment, community, networking, finding potential partners and clients in Europe. 

Fund range per team: from 130 000 to 6 000 000 Eur. 

Investment conditions: equity based investment. 

INVEGA – a partner for venture capital and startups

INVEGA is a national business development institution. Their activities focus on the implementation of state-funded financial instruments for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and economic operators in the startup, operation and expansion phases of their business activities.

INVEGA supports the Lithuanian venture capital market, cultivates new risk capital players and thus provides wider access to investment for promising new Lithuanian companies and startups that have limited access to business financing offered by banks.

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Pre-acceleration program in which participants gets mentorship, education and skill development while working on their business solutions. Futurepreneurs is a sustainability pre-acceleration program for impact driven entrepreneurs. In order to create and develop startups, participants have to focus on Sustainable Development Goals and find an innovative solution to worldwide problems. Program includes open lectures on business starting basics, hands-on workshops, individual mentorship sessions with business professionals and an opportunity to pitch in front of potential investors. Fields of interest: health, enterprise software, education, energy, transportation, food, security, jobs recruitment, hardware, everything related to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Waiting for startups with: idea or team. Benefits for startups: mentoring, community, networking.
Startup Division helps entrepreneurs to accelerate their business, conquer foreign markets and attract funding. Startup Division helps entrepreneurs to accelerate their business, conquer foreign markets and attract funding by crafting tailor-made programs and building bridges between global startup ecosystems. The company organizes hackathons and design sprints, open innovation and education programmes, entrepreneurship courses and other high added-value services that can benefit aspiring founders as well as big corporations. Startup Division works with structural and EU funding programmes and instruments. Region of interest: CEE, Nordics, CIS. Fields of interest: fintech, marketing, health, enterprise software, education, energy, transportation, food, security, real estate, travel, job recruitment, legal, telecommunication, gaming, semiconductors, IoT, sports, music, construction, hosting, robotics, government, hardware.  Waiting for startups with: idea, prototype, team, first income, growth.  Benefits for startups: mentoring, community, networking, programs abroad.