Create – Seedbed
About Seedbed
Seedbed provides the financial and strategic "soil" needed for founders, early startups and the broader innovation ecosystem. Our mission is delivered through three targeted sub-programmes designed to address the specific needs of the agrifood entrepreneurial landscape.
Seedbed Venture Catalyst provides the financial backing and strategic network required to bridge the gap between discovery and commercial scale. By partnering with world-class Venture Builders, we support and nurture the most promising talent, ensuring that high-impact innovations have the base they need to thrive.
Seedbed TeamUp is a unique matchmaking initiative that bridges the gap between science and business. We bring together talented technologists and commercial specialists to build balanced founding teams and launch brand-new agrifood startups from scratch.
Seedbed Foundations is our regional empowerment engine. We co-finance and co-create new Venture Building clusters in underserved regions, providing the critical infrastructure, funding, and networks where talent and ambition already exist but support is lacking.
About the Seedbed Venture Catalyst
The Seedbed Venture Catalyst is a partnership with Europe's leading Venture Building programmes, offering catalytic funding to ambitious founding teams so they can overcome blockers on their journey.
Working with venture builders, technology transfer offices, and research institutions, Seedbed connects scientific excellence with entrepreneurial know-how, helping innovators validate their market opportunity and lay the foundations for successful venture creation.
Why join the programme?
- Access Europe’s venture-building network and connect with venture builders, co-founders, investors, and corporate partners across the agrifood sector.
- Transform research into a viable business with tailored venture support, customer discovery, and expert-led coaching.
- Receive smart funding to cover critical early-stage costs such as IP licensing, prototyping, or first hires.
- Build within a connected European ecosystem, empowering innovations from all regions to achieve commercial and societal impact.
Seedbed Venture Catalyst empowers Europe’s brightest innovators to bridge the gap between science and entrepreneurship — accelerating the creation of ventures that will shape a sustainable food future.
