{"id":533511,"date":"2025-10-28T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533511\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:29:21","slug":"european-commission-partners-with-private-investors-to-build-multi-billion-scaleup-europe-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533511\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission Partners With Private Investors to Build Multi-billion Scaleup Europe Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Insider Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The European Commission announced plans to establish the Scaleup Europe Fund, a multi-billion-euro vehicle to invest in promising European deep tech companies and strengthen the continent\u2019s competitiveness.<\/li>\n<li>The fund will target late-stage growth investments across strategic sectors including AI, quantum technologies, semiconductors, robotics, energy, space, biotech, and advanced materials.<\/li>\n<li>Leading European investors\u2014including Novo Holdings, EIFO, CriteriaCaixa, Santander\/Mouro Capital, Wallenberg Investments, and others\u2014will collaborate with the Commission and the EIB to launch the fund, which is expected to begin investing by Spring 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PRESS RELEASE \u2014 Today, the Commission brought together top-tier private investors from across Europe to jointly express their intention to establish the\u00a0Scaleup Europe Fund\u00a0\u2013 a new, multi-billion fund to invest in<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the most promising European companies in strategic deep tech areas.<\/p>\n<p>By joining forces with these potential founding investors, the Commission moves ahead on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu\/strategy\/strategy-research-and-innovation\/jobs-and-economy\/eu-startup-and-scaleup-strategy_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy<\/a>\u00a0aimed at building a dynamic and competitive startup and scaleup ecosystem across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Scaleup Europe Fund responds to the urgent need for Europe to boost investments in scaleups and close the gap with global leaders. As highlighted in the Draghi report, the continent\u2019s ability to scale innovative companies is crucial to its competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thequantuminsider.com\/data\/\" onclick=\"_gs(&#039;event&#039;, &#039;DATA IN CONTENT NEW&#039;)\" class=\"responsive-image\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Website-Banner-Quantum-2.gif\" alt=\"Responsive Image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So far, despite a strong startup pipeline, limited access to late-stage growth capital and fragmented investment markets have hindered European innovators\u2019 ability to grow into global leaders.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula\u00a0<strong>von der Leyen<\/strong>\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cEurope has the ideas and the talent to build the most innovative companies in the world. But as they scale up we need to ensure they have the means to grow, attract investment and thrive right here at home. High quality jobs and Europe\u2019s overall competitiveness depends on it. The Scaleup Europe Fund is an essential part of our work to make sure the best of Europe can choose Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leading European investors\u00a0to boost Europe\u2019s tech leadership<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the high-level meeting hosted today by Ekaterina\u00a0<strong>Zaharieva<\/strong>, Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, a core group of potential investors and the European Investment Bank (EIB), came together with a common goal \u2013 to unlock the value of Europe\u2019s flourishing scaleup companies, while promoting European tech leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the Commission and the EIB Group, the group of potential founding investors in the Fund include Novo Holdings, EIFO (Export and Investment Fund of Denmark), CriteriaCaixa, Santander\/Mouro Capital, Fondazione Compagnia San Paolo\/ Intesa Sanpaolo\/Fondazione Cariplo, APG Asset Management, acting on behalf of Dutch pension fund ABP, Wallenberg Investments, and BGK (Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego).<\/p>\n<p>These potential investors will work hand in hand with the Commission to establish and capitalise the fund. They also agreed today that the Scaleup Europe Fund will focus on growth capital and late-stage investments in a broad range of European strategic technology companies, including artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, semiconductor technologies, robotics and autonomous systems, energy technologies, space technologies, biotechnologies, medical technologies, advanced materials and agritech.<\/p>\n<p>Next steps<\/p>\n<p>The Scaleup Europe Fund will operate as a market-based, privately managed and privately co-financed growth fund investing in major European-led investment rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission, together with the other founding investors, will select and appoint a management company to implement the fund. A public call for the management company will be published soon, with the aim that the Scaleup Europe Fund can start first investments in Spring 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Background<\/p>\n<p>President Ursula\u00a0<strong>von der Leyen<\/strong>, announced the Scaleup Europe Fund in her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/SPEECH_25_2053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 State of the Union Address<\/a>\u00a0as a flagship initiative aimed at making major investments in young, fast-growing companies in critical tech areas, so that \u201cthe best of Europe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/topics\/research-and-innovation\/choose-europe_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choose Europe<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For more information<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/qanda_25_2530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Questions and answers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu\/strategy\/strategy-research-and-innovation\/jobs-and-economy\/eu-startup-and-scaleup-strategy_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy \u2013 Research and innovation<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu\/strategy\/support-policy-making\/shaping-eu-research-and-innovation-policy\/european-innovation-act_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">European Innovation Act \u2013 Research and innovation \u2013 European Commission<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/topics\/eu-competitiveness\/competitiveness-compass_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Competitiveness compass \u2013 European Commission<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Insider Brief The European Commission announced plans to establish the Scaleup Europe Fund, a multi-billion-euro vehicle to invest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,2557,62788],"class_list":{"0":"post-533511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-commission","12":"tag-scaleup-europe-fund"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115452508819554480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}