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EUDIS Business Accelerator

Driving growth through defence innovation

EUDIS Business Accelerator aims to enhance start-ups’ and scale-ups’ understanding of the defence environment and end-user needs, and strengthen their business development, enter the defence market and go-to-market capabilities.

How does it work?

Hackathon

Rewards and Benefits

  • Strengthen the EUDIS Business Accelerator’s start-up and scale-up companies’ knowledge of defence environment and business development.
  • Improve their access to financing, making them investment-ready, providing them with seed-financing vouchers of EUR 65,000 per company, training and coaching sessions.
  • Provide them with testing opportunities to create in-demand innovative defence solutions.
  • Strengthen start-ups, scale-ups, SMEs and small mid-caps’ networks and engagement with defence end-users, investors and corporates through EUDIS matchmaking events.
  • Facilitate capacity building for investors by offering insights on the defence market and technologies.
20 start-ups and scale-ups
supported in the first batch
65,000 euros per company
in seed-financing vouchers
8-month programme
with tailored training and coaching
Business Accelerator
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