EIC Scaling Club

The EIC Scaling Club is an exclusive community of 100+ European high-growth deep-tech champions and their partners. The Club engages companies in a pan-European network of scalers to share their peer experience and obtain exposure at the European level. It provides the participating companies with tailored mentoring and access to quality business partners such as corporates and investors.

The 100+ participating companies come from the portfolio of EIC Awardees and other national and European innovation programmes or beyond. Companies are selected based on the transformative solution of their deep technologies in one of the market opportunities, such as sustainability (climate and energy), digital, health, and more, and their growth performance.

• Improved networking and peer exchange between Europe’s top-performing deep tech founders and CEOs,
• facilitated access to strategic partners, such as corporates and public and private investors,
• improved knowledge and skills of management teams,
• accelerated growth of the participating companies in terms of new investments, partners, and jobs created,
• supported companies positioned as successful and fast-growing sustainable future global leaders,
• strengthened image of the European scaleup scene.

The EIC Scaling Club engages the selected companies in a committed network of a minimum of 400 quality ecosystem players consisting of:

• 100 most active investors, including venture capital, growth, and government funds,
• 100 most relevant corporations with their innovation, venturing, or development units,
• 100 agencies, clusters, and media that promote scale-ups in Member States, regions, or sectors, and
• 100 independent mentors with experience and relationships at the scale-up board level.

The action facilitates participating companies in building and nurturing relationships with strategic partners and key European institutions. The provided mentoring support and partner matching focus on advancing companies' corporate strategies, outreach to strategic investors and partners, and their international expansion.

• The EIC is implementing the EIC Scaling Club together with a consortium of partners led by TechTour and involving Bpifrance, 3ura, EurA, Universidad de Navarra - IESE Business School, Webrazzi, and Hello Tomorrow. The consortium was selected through an open call for applications to EIC Scale Up 100, launched under the EIC Work Programme 2022.

• Project’s website: EIC Scaling Club
• Scaling up with the European Innovation Council: launch of the new initiative to support Europe’s future deep tech champions