Seedbed Venture Catalyst Call for Startups
EIT Food · Cascade funding
Summary
A Polish company can use this call for R&D.
Funds eligible Seedbed Venture Catalyst startup teams to overcome venture-building barriers, including test batches, intellectual property, founder costs and laboratory equipment.
- Who can apply
- Companies can lead: startup, individual.
- Amount
- Budget not stated
- Deadline
- 27 Jan 2027 23:59 CETin 95 days
- Status
- Open
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Seedbed Venture Catalyst Call for Startups
This Call is for startup teams created by the Venture Builders in the Seedbed Venture Catalyst programme.
EU Countries
Deadline: 27 January 2027
This call provides funding to support founders who have reached a point in their venture building journey where they need external financial support to overcome hurdles and blockages that are impeding their progress.
Examples of ways the funds could help include production of a test batch of a novel ingredient, negotiation of contracts, securing IP, hiring or paying a co-founder to enable them to remain in the programme, or purchasing equipment for a test lab facility.
IMPORTANT: Only projects from the seven Venture Catalyst partners are eligible. These are: Carbon13, Enviu, FOOD FOUNDERS, Fresh Ventures, Ivoro, Kost Studio and Zinc
Downloads
• Call Guidelines (pdf, 521,841 KB)
• Budget Template (xlsx, 120,182 KB)
• Draft Contract for Lump Sum Agreement (pdf, 442,532 KB)
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Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- Startup, Individual
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 2 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- European Union; only startup projects created through the seven named Seedbed Venture Catalyst partners
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Single applicant
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- Agrifood ventures
- Novel ingredients
- Intellectual property
- Laboratory equipment
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 24 Oct 2026
Call facts
- Opens
- —
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- EIT Food
- Call
- —
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- eitfood.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.