European Innovation Council

The European Innovation Council (EIC), established in 2020 and headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, is dedicated to supporting high-potential innovators, entrepreneurs, small enterprises, and researchers. Its primary focus is on fostering early-stage startups that demonstrate significant environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts. The EIC collaborates with private investors to co-invest in ventures, particularly within the deep technology sector, aiming to drive innovation and sustainable development across Europe. By providing financial backing and resources, the EIC seeks to enhance the growth potential of promising startups and contribute to a more innovative and competitive European economy.

David Malo Jean

Director

Candace Johnson

President

Past deals in Italy

TENSIVE

Series A in 2025
Tensive is a biomedical startup established in 2012 to develop innovative prostheses aiming to offer a natural breast reconstruction or augmentation.Tensive is a biomedical startup established in 2012 to develop innovative prostheses aiming to offer a natural breast reconstruction or augmentation.

Axelera AI

Series B in 2024
Axelera AI focuses on providing specialized hardware and software platforms to enhance artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. Its primary product, the Metis™ AI Platform, combines hardware and software to offer high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions. The platform's innovative design has earned recognition as a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree. Established in 2021 after incubation by Bitfury and collaboration with imec, Axelera AI is headquartered in the AI Innovation Center at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, with research and development offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. The company's team comprises experts in AI from leading firms and Fortune 500 companies, focusing on delivering sustainable edge applications through a custom dataflow architecture and multicore in-memory computing that minimizes power consumption.

Daze

Series A in 2024
Daze is an Italian hi-tech startup developing smart chargers for electric vehicles (EVs). Founded in 2016, Daze spent 3 years mainly focusing on pure R&D activities to create the first both autonomous and conductive charger for EVs: DazePlug. During 2020 Daze has also developed, started to produce and sell two “classic” EV charging products: DazeBox (for home charging) and DazeMax (for shared charging). In 2021 product sales exceeded 3,800 units and revenues approached 1.9 million Euro, with CAGR of 330% between 2019 and 2021. From June 2021 the company is also benefitting from a grant of 2.5 million Euro from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, which is and will be used to push forward DazePlug development. In 2022 revenues grow over 5 million Euro with positive EBITDA, Daze Iberica started the operations. 2023 is the year of expansion, Daze France is starting the operations and new business models and new products are added to the business

Energy Dome

Series B in 2023
Energy Dome is an Italian company based in Lonate Pozzolo that specializes in long-duration electricity storage using liquid carbon dioxide. The company has developed a low-cost and efficient technology that employs a closed-loop thermodynamic process to store energy, making renewable power more dispatchable. By focusing on energy storage solutions, Energy Dome aims to facilitate the transition to renewable energy and contribute to the decarbonization of the energy industry. Its innovative approach seeks to address climate change challenges by significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, thereby promoting a more sustainable future.

Voiseed

Venture Round in 2023
Voiseed is an Italian startup focused on artificial intelligence for synthetic speech, specifically designed for the video game industry. The company has developed a scalable AI Dubbing Platform that utilizes advanced generative AI technologies to create virtual human voices with expressive emotional nuances and prosody. This cloud-based software enables users to customize vocal expressions and perform multilingual voice conversions, significantly simplifying the dubbing process. By offering a universal voice model and an emotional data set, Voiseed helps creators efficiently design unique voice textures, thereby reducing costs, time, and complexity in various audio-visual projects. The company is actively expanding its features to cater to additional industries beyond gaming.

Daze

Convertible Note in 2022
Daze is an Italian hi-tech startup developing smart chargers for electric vehicles (EVs). Founded in 2016, Daze spent 3 years mainly focusing on pure R&D activities to create the first both autonomous and conductive charger for EVs: DazePlug. During 2020 Daze has also developed, started to produce and sell two “classic” EV charging products: DazeBox (for home charging) and DazeMax (for shared charging). In 2021 product sales exceeded 3,800 units and revenues approached 1.9 million Euro, with CAGR of 330% between 2019 and 2021. From June 2021 the company is also benefitting from a grant of 2.5 million Euro from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, which is and will be used to push forward DazePlug development. In 2022 revenues grow over 5 million Euro with positive EBITDA, Daze Iberica started the operations. 2023 is the year of expansion, Daze France is starting the operations and new business models and new products are added to the business

Energy Dome

Grant in 2022
Energy Dome is an Italian company based in Lonate Pozzolo that specializes in long-duration electricity storage using liquid carbon dioxide. The company has developed a low-cost and efficient technology that employs a closed-loop thermodynamic process to store energy, making renewable power more dispatchable. By focusing on energy storage solutions, Energy Dome aims to facilitate the transition to renewable energy and contribute to the decarbonization of the energy industry. Its innovative approach seeks to address climate change challenges by significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, thereby promoting a more sustainable future.

TENSIVE

Venture Round in 2022
Tensive is a biomedical startup established in 2012 to develop innovative prostheses aiming to offer a natural breast reconstruction or augmentation.Tensive is a biomedical startup established in 2012 to develop innovative prostheses aiming to offer a natural breast reconstruction or augmentation.

Newronika

Grant in 2022
Newronika is a company focused on restoring brain and body functions through innovative neuro-modulation technologies. It develops therapeutic devices that utilize a retro-activity system to record brain activity and modulate neuro-stimulation. By collecting, analyzing, and interpreting bio-signals, Newronika enables patients to receive timely stimulation, allowing them to engage in normal daily activities and enhance their quality of life. As a spin-off from prominent Italian research institutions, including the Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico Hospital and the University of Milan, Newronika benefits from a multidisciplinary team of experts in various fields such as neuroscience, neurophysiology, biomedical engineering, and neuropsychology.

Energy Dome

Venture Round in 2022
Energy Dome is an Italian company based in Lonate Pozzolo that specializes in long-duration electricity storage using liquid carbon dioxide. The company has developed a low-cost and efficient technology that employs a closed-loop thermodynamic process to store energy, making renewable power more dispatchable. By focusing on energy storage solutions, Energy Dome aims to facilitate the transition to renewable energy and contribute to the decarbonization of the energy industry. Its innovative approach seeks to address climate change challenges by significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, thereby promoting a more sustainable future.

Daze

Seed Round in 2021
Daze is an Italian hi-tech startup developing smart chargers for electric vehicles (EVs). Founded in 2016, Daze spent 3 years mainly focusing on pure R&D activities to create the first both autonomous and conductive charger for EVs: DazePlug. During 2020 Daze has also developed, started to produce and sell two “classic” EV charging products: DazeBox (for home charging) and DazeMax (for shared charging). In 2021 product sales exceeded 3,800 units and revenues approached 1.9 million Euro, with CAGR of 330% between 2019 and 2021. From June 2021 the company is also benefitting from a grant of 2.5 million Euro from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, which is and will be used to push forward DazePlug development. In 2022 revenues grow over 5 million Euro with positive EBITDA, Daze Iberica started the operations. 2023 is the year of expansion, Daze France is starting the operations and new business models and new products are added to the business

Voiseed

Grant in 2021
Voiseed is an Italian startup focused on artificial intelligence for synthetic speech, specifically designed for the video game industry. The company has developed a scalable AI Dubbing Platform that utilizes advanced generative AI technologies to create virtual human voices with expressive emotional nuances and prosody. This cloud-based software enables users to customize vocal expressions and perform multilingual voice conversions, significantly simplifying the dubbing process. By offering a universal voice model and an emotional data set, Voiseed helps creators efficiently design unique voice textures, thereby reducing costs, time, and complexity in various audio-visual projects. The company is actively expanding its features to cater to additional industries beyond gaming.

Voiseed

Venture Round in 2021
Voiseed is an Italian startup focused on artificial intelligence for synthetic speech, specifically designed for the video game industry. The company has developed a scalable AI Dubbing Platform that utilizes advanced generative AI technologies to create virtual human voices with expressive emotional nuances and prosody. This cloud-based software enables users to customize vocal expressions and perform multilingual voice conversions, significantly simplifying the dubbing process. By offering a universal voice model and an emotional data set, Voiseed helps creators efficiently design unique voice textures, thereby reducing costs, time, and complexity in various audio-visual projects. The company is actively expanding its features to cater to additional industries beyond gaming.

Daze

Venture Round in 2020
Daze is an Italian hi-tech startup developing smart chargers for electric vehicles (EVs). Founded in 2016, Daze spent 3 years mainly focusing on pure R&D activities to create the first both autonomous and conductive charger for EVs: DazePlug. During 2020 Daze has also developed, started to produce and sell two “classic” EV charging products: DazeBox (for home charging) and DazeMax (for shared charging). In 2021 product sales exceeded 3,800 units and revenues approached 1.9 million Euro, with CAGR of 330% between 2019 and 2021. From June 2021 the company is also benefitting from a grant of 2.5 million Euro from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Fund, which is and will be used to push forward DazePlug development. In 2022 revenues grow over 5 million Euro with positive EBITDA, Daze Iberica started the operations. 2023 is the year of expansion, Daze France is starting the operations and new business models and new products are added to the business

TENSIVE

Grant in 2020
Tensive is a biomedical startup established in 2012 to develop innovative prostheses aiming to offer a natural breast reconstruction or augmentation.Tensive is a biomedical startup established in 2012 to develop innovative prostheses aiming to offer a natural breast reconstruction or augmentation.
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