European Investment Fund

📣 Save the date! Empowering Equity returns on 21 September to explore how diversity drives better tech. 🤝 LPs, GPs, students, innovators and changemakers 🔗 Networking + 1:1s with EIF experts 🌍 Understand how EU priorities are shaping the tech ecosystem More details soon!

Valuable insights on @EIB Group initiatives to boost 🇪🇺 tech leadership at the roundtable with leading investors, banks, insurance & pension funds. The @EIF_EU European Tech Champions Initiative already nurtured 14 venture capital megafunds & 11 🦄. And we’re scaling up!

We’re adding €250m in uncapped guarantees to the existing €75m agreement with @BNPParibas. Backed by #InvestEU, this boost will help keep financing for innovation and sustainability flowing across Europe. Read more 👇 bit.ly/4b6qhre

Backed by #InvestEU, we are investing up to €20m in DaVinci Growth Capital Fund to support the growth and digital transition of Italian companies. Read more 👇 bit.ly/4rYwkEh

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! Courage is one of the qualities we need to drive gender equality forward. Let’s keep fighting together, men and women, for human rights. This is the good fight! #IWD2026💜

New Gender Action Plan launched ahead of #IWD2026 reinforces our commitment to gender equality. The Plan focuses on 🔵expanding economic opportunities 🔵investing in inclusive infrastructure & services 🔵ensuring security, dignity & equal rights go.eib.org/3rdGenderActio… #EIBForum

How to proceed when scaling up is a challenge? Experts shared insights on EU startups state in a panel led by @MarjutFalksted, notably how to help them bridge the financial gap & unlock growth, with the objective to keep them at home. ▶️youtube.com/live/no8nN7lxk… #EIBForum

We have committed €50 million via the #InvestEU Defence Equity Facility to Join Capital Fund III. It's our largest-ever commitment in defence and is intended to provide private capital for strategic innovation in deep-tech and dual use. Press release: bit.ly/3N2UmyK

'2025 was a turning point for @EIB security & defence investment. And we will expand the Defence Equity Facility, through which @EIF_EU acts as anchor investor, mobilising capital into specialised private funds.' President @NadiaCalvino at #EIBForum📽️

Happy Liberation Day, Bulgaria! 🇧🇬 From footballing legends to truly unique traditions – our colleagues share what shapes their home country. #Bulgaria

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒀𝑶𝑼 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍? 🤔 Hala Fadel and Christian Leybold share their take on how to improve the status quo in European finance. What’s yours? #ETCI

We have increasingly been called upon to contribute to strengthening Europe’s security. Innovation doesn’t always emerge from comfort. Sometimes it is driven by urgency. More about our role within Europe’s security and defence, in our EIF in 2025 page: lnkd.in/dHKiU5bm

“We have to make sure that founders become heroes.” To our private and public investors: Be confident. Back Ambition. Take smart risks. To our founders: go for it.

@BonefeldCecilia @FedorovMykhailo @VVChentsov @ChairmanEUMC @alexagiussaliba @TheProgressives @JeffCampbellDC @Cisco @Quandela_SAS @EvaMaydell @Europarl_EN @NATO @P_Toivanen @nokia @ViolaRoberto @EU_Commission @vikyaremchuk @VDombrovskis @macchi_mauro @negrescuvictor @europarl @siemens_press @raimondscudars @HennaVirkkunen Full stage for the panel ''Europe’s rising tech stars: Future Unicorn Award Panel & Ceremony'' ⭐🦄 #MoD2026

From quantum to space & support to 🇺🇦, @DIGITALEUROPE nurtures an impressive ecosystem of European tech champions, raising 🇪🇺 competitiveness & security. The @EIB Group is proud to finance most of them! Congratulations to #MoD2026 award winners @Quandela_SAS & Sateliot! 👏🏼👏🏼

328,445 stories. Contributing to Europe’s financial ecosystem means listening every year to the life stories, ambitions and potential of European businesses. 2025 was no different. Discover the success stories on the EIF in 2025 page: engage.eif.org/eif-in-2025/

Happy Independence Day, Estonia! 🇪🇪 From digital pioneers like Bolt and Skype, to EU leaders like Kaja Kallas to eccentric personalities like Tommy Cash — Estonia is proof that you don’t have to be the biggest to be influential. To our 🇪🇪 colleagues : enjoy today!

Europe excels at starting. It struggles at scaling. The scale-up gap sits in that uncomfortable middle ground – a structural bottleneck between early promise and global leadership. That's what the #ETCI is working to address.

🗺️ This is how we broke new ground in 2025. From backing Europe’s first VC fund exclusively focused on children’s health to strengthening 🇪🇺–🇺🇦 economic integration, fresh ideas took shape across the continent. Discover the full ‘Map of Firsts’, here: engage.eif.org/eif-in-2025/

Our newly published EIF in 2025 digital brochure captures a year of resilience and determination. Together with 300+ partners, we channelled nearly €16bn into Europe’s capital markets — supporting 328,445 businesses. Read the full EIF in 2025 report 👉 engage.eif.org/eif-in-2025/