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Every EIC Accelerator winner since 2021
747 companies have won an EIC Accelerator grant agreement since 2021. Search and filter them by country, funding type or sector; each row links to its official EU record.
Showing 747 of 747 companies
Signed grant agreements. Sources: CORDIS (2026-08-06) and the EIC Data Hub (16 Sept 2026). The newest call years are still being signed. How this was built
| Company | Country | Call | Grant | Funding | Technology | Status |
|---|
What the combined data shows
Counts computed from the 747 companies in the table above, joining CORDIS with the EIC Data Hub. Each block says what it can and cannot support.
Funding type changed with the rules
| Call year | Companies | Blended finance | Grant first | Grant only |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 149 | 91 (61%) | 47 (32%) | 11 (7%) |
| 2022 | 203 | 120 (59%) | 69 (34%) | 14 (7%) |
| 2023 | 162 | 97 (60%) | 58 (36%) | 7 (4%) |
| 2024 | 137 | 121 (88%) | 0 | 16 (12%) |
| 2025 | 94 | 82 (87%) | 0 | 12 (13%) |
| 2026 (so far) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 (100%) |
Blended finance (a grant plus an equity component) is 60% of companies in the 2021 to 2023 calls and 88% in the 2024 and 2025 calls. Grant first, an option in the 2021 to 2023 calls, does not appear from 2024. Compare companies within a period, not across the two.
How many win per cut-off
| Cut-off | Companies |
|---|---|
| 2021-06-16 | 61 |
| 2021-10-06 | 88 |
| 2022-03-23 | 66 |
| 2022-06-15 | 67 |
| 2022-10-05 | 70 |
| 2023-01-11 | 31 |
| 2023-03-22 | 45 |
| 2023-06-21 | 44 |
| 2023-11-08 | 42 |
| 2024-03-13 | 69 |
| 2024-10-03 | 68 |
| 2025-03-12 | 37 |
| 2025-10-01 | 57 |
| 2026-03-04 | 2 |
Winners only, not applicants, so this is not a success rate. The newest cut-offs are still being signed, so read their counts as in progress.
Equity we can actually see
140 of 747
companies have a disclosed equity amount, EUR 751m in total. 17 of them were grant first, so that route did lead to equity for some. Amounts appear only where the company agreed to publish them, so this is a floor, not the EIC total.
| Call year | Disclosed | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 50 of 149 | 34% |
| 2022 | 61 of 203 | 30% |
| 2023 | 17 of 162 | 10% |
| 2024 | 12 of 137 | 9% |
| 2025 | 0 of 94 | 0% |
388 of the 511 blended-finance companies have no disclosed amount. That means undisclosed, not zero.
Woman-led companies
174 of 747
companies carry the EIC woman-led badge (23%), defined by the EIC as women in strategic positions such as CEO or CTO.
| Call year | Woman-led | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 29 of 149 | 19% |
| 2022 | 44 of 203 | 22% |
| 2023 | 32 of 162 | 20% |
| 2024 | 43 of 137 | 31% |
| 2025 | 26 of 94 | 28% |
Winners by country, against population and GDP
| Country | Winners | Grant, EUR m | Winners per million people | Winners vs GDP weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany | 118 | 277 | 1.4 | 0.9x |
| France | 111 | 271 | 1.6 | 1.2x |
| Netherlands | 82 | 195 | 4.6 | 2.3x |
| Spain | 65 | 151 | 1.3 | 1.3x |
| Sweden | 52 | 125 | 4.9 | 2.9x |
| Israel | 46 | 111 | 4.6 | 2.9x |
| Finland | 37 | 89 | 6.6 | 4.2x |
| Denmark | 30 | 70 | 5.0 | 2.4x |
| Belgium | 29 | 66 | 2.4 | 1.5x |
| Italy | 29 | 67 | 0.5 | 0.4x |
| Ireland | 27 | 66 | 5.0 | 1.5x |
| Austria | 16 | 37 | 1.7 | 1.0x |
| Norway | 16 | 39 | 2.9 | 1.1x |
| United Kingdom | 15 | 36 | 0.2 | 0.1x† |
| Portugal | 14 | 31 | 1.3 | 1.5x |
| Poland | 10 | 24 | 0.3 | 0.4x |
| Estonia | 9 | 20 | 6.6 | 7.0x |
| Lithuania | 7 | 17 | 2.4 | 2.8x |
| Bulgaria | 5 | 11 | 0.8 | 1.5x |
Winners vs GDP weight compares a country's share of winners with its share of the combined GDP of the 31 countries in this data. 1.0x is a fair share; 2.0x means twice its economic weight.
Fewer than 5 winners: Czechia 4, Luxembourg 4, Switzerland 4†, Greece 3, Iceland 3, Croatia 2, Hungary 2, Romania 2, Slovakia 2, Cyprus 1, Latvia 1, Slovenia 1.
† Joined Horizon Europe after the first calls (the UK on 1 January 2024, Switzerland on 1 January 2025), so their companies could only win in later calls. Measured against the calls open to them: the UK from 2024, 0.4x; Switzerland from 2025, 1.1x.
This counts winners, not applicants, so it is not a success rate: a low figure can mean fewer applications as well as fewer wins. Population and GDP (current US dollars) are World Bank figures for 2024. Read the analysis: which countries win the EIC Accelerator.
Which sectors the EIC funds
| EIC sector | Companies |
|---|---|
| Medical Technologies | 199 |
| AI, Data & ICT | 197 |
| Advanced Manufacturing & Advanced Materials | 123 |
| Health Biotechnology | 119 |
| Climate & Environmental Tech | 113 |
| Quantum, Advanced Computing & Semiconductors | 109 |
| Energy | 105 |
| Agriculture & Food | 55 |
| Mobility | 35 |
| Space | 32 |
| Built Environment | 16 |
| Social Innovation, Culture & Creative Industries | 12 |
These are the EIC's own sector codes, alongside the title-based technology tag used by the filter above.
How this was built, and what it does not claim
Source 1, CORDIS. The Horizon Europe open-data set from the European Commission, licensed CC BY 4.0, extracted on 2026-08-06. It gives the company list, country, grant amount, call and status. Filtered to EIC Accelerator grant agreements, one row per beneficiary company. See the CORDIS legal notice.
Source 2, EIC Data Hub. The EIC Data Hub, run by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA), last updated 16 September 2026 and read on 2026-09-30. Joined to CORDIS on the project number, and every one of the 747 companies matched. Taken from it: funding type, disclosed equity, EIC sector, woman-led badge and call cut-off date. EU-owned content on the EIC site is reusable under CC BY 4.0 with credit and changes indicated (Commission legal notice). Changes made here: joined by project number, reduced to the fields above, sector codes shown with the Hub's names. This page is not an official European Commission publication.
The data is fragmented across CORDIS, the EIC Data Hub, EIC Fund pages and national press releases. This joins the two official EU sources into one structured view. What is here: companies that reached a signed EIC Accelerator grant agreement under Horizon Europe, from the 2021 calls onward. Grant amount is the EU grant recorded in CORDIS.
What this page deliberately does not claim, because the sources cannot support it honestly:
- Funding type is a label, not money received. Blended finance means the jury approved a grant plus an equity component. It does not show how much equity was invested. Grant first exists only in the 2021 to 2023 calls, so compare within a period, never across 2023 and 2024.
- Equity is a floor, not a total. Amounts appear only where the company agreed to disclose them (140 of 747, and fewer for recent calls). Nothing here should be read as the EIC's total equity or an average ticket.
- No company age at award. Neither source carries a founding date, and we do not fill that gap with estimates.
- No success rate by country. This lists winners only. Without the number of applicants per country there is no rate to show, and we will not imply one.
17 of the 747 grant agreements were later terminated by the Commission; they stay in the table and are filterable by status. Companies that were selected but declined or never signed do not appear. The 2019-2020 pilot Accelerator (the Horizon 2020 SME Instrument) is out of scope here.
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Where does this data come from?
From two official EU sources, joined on the project number. The companies, countries, grant amounts and dates come from CORDIS, the Commission's open database of EU-funded projects (CC BY 4.0), extracted on 2026-08-06 and filtered to EIC Accelerator grant agreements, one row per company. The funding type, equity amounts, EIC sector, woman-led badge and call cut-off date come from the EIC Data Hub run by EISMEA, last updated 16 September 2026 and read on 2026-09-30. Every row links back to its official CORDIS record so you can verify it.
Does a listed grant mean the company also got equity?
Not necessarily. The table shows the EIC's own funding type for each company. Blended finance means the jury approved a grant plus an equity component, but it does not say how much equity was invested or when. Equity amounts are shown only where the company agreed to disclose them, which is 140 of the 747 companies, so an empty cell means undisclosed, not zero.
Why is there no success rate by country?
Because this lists winners only. A success rate needs the number of applicants per country, which is not in this data. Showing winners per country as if it were a hit rate would be misleading, so we show counts and grant volume and label them as exactly that.
Why do the most recent years look lower?
Grant agreements are signed months after a company is selected, so the newest call years are still being recorded and their totals will keep rising. Read recent years as in-progress, not as a decline in funding.
Do companies like mine actually win?
That is what the filters are for. Narrow by your country, the technology and the grant range you would target, and you can see comparable winners and how many there are. If you want a candid read on your own odds, book a discovery call.
What do Blended finance, Grant first and Grant only mean?
Blended finance is a grant plus an equity investment from the EIC Fund. Grant only is a grant with no equity. Grant first was an option in the 2021 to 2023 calls: the company took the grant first and could seek equity later, once it hit milestones. It was dropped from the 2024 calls and folded into blended finance, which is why the data shows no grant-first companies from 2024 and a much higher blended share. Compare companies within a period, not across 2023 and 2024.
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