TechEU
The EU's largest ever financing programme to support Europe's innovators from idea to IPO and from lab to leadership
TechEU is the European Investment Bank Group’s platform dedicated to accelerating innovation across Europe. By linking innovators to the right mix of funding and expertise, TechEU empowers growth and helps bring game-changing technologies to market.
Faster, simpler, better: to support the European capital markets union and make it easier for businesses to access EIB Group financing.
TechEU and the EIF
TechEU helps unlock finance for a whole range of European companies, from start-ups, growth companies and scale-ups to mature corporations.
At the EIF, we are leveraging our long-standing expertise and financial instruments to contribute to the successful implementation of TechEU. We are the EIB Group’s financing arm for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and mid-caps.
Financing solutions deployed by the EIF as part of TechEU are:
We support VC investments (indirect equity) via the EIF’s network of VC fund partners backing companies across the entire innovation life cycle from tech transfer to startups, and to later stages of growth and scale-ups.
We offer SME loans for innovation and digitalisation through the EIF’s and the EIB’s networks of financial intermediaries, which include banks and alternative finance providers.
We back digital infrastructure projects - such as data centres and innovative online platforms - through EIB financing as well as through EIF-backed infrastructure funds (indirect equity).
Find out more about TechEU
Discover more about this EIB Group's initiative, including details on what we offer, who is eligible, what is eligible, and featured projects across TechEU target sectors.