Investment
EIT Food facilitates investment opportunities for Europe’s most promising agrifood startups through financing and connection with our venture partners.
Funding for food startups with direct investment
Funding for food startups
EIT Food provides direct food startup funding to high-performing agrifood businesses whose innovation activities are contributing to our core missions to create a healthier, more sustainable, and resilient food system.
The funding opportunity is open to all EU agrifood startups that are alumni or currently participating in one of our flagship entrepreneurship programmes
Get up to €500K in equity for your startup. Refer to our terms and conditions
Investor partners
We tailor match selected startups with agrifood investors including our core partner FoodSparks, managed by PeakBridge.
- FoodSparks® is fully embedded into the EIT Food ecosystem. Investment-ready start-ups supported in EIT Food programmes have direct access to the FoodSparks® investment team
- FoodSparks® invests in seed and early-stage start-ups from farm to fork
Become an investor partner
Join as a startup
To be eligible for funding through EIT Food and our partners you must be a current participant or an alumni member of one of our pan-European entrepreneurship programmes.