🤯 Only 5% of EU Innovation Grants Reach Startups
WE FIX THAT!
At Softseed.ai, part of Effectuate.AI, we are founded with a clear mission: to help excellent scientists, engineers and commercial entrepreneurs reclaim the power, budgets, and narrative of the EU innovation ecosystem.
According to a recent report from dealroom.co, only 5% - just €11–12 billion out of €220 billion - in EU innovation funding actually reaches startups. Yet, these startups have created €520 billion in value and attracted over €70 billion in high-risk deeptech investments.
So we ask the obvious question:
Where did the other 95% - nearly €210 billion - go? 🔥💸
We help you outplay bureaucrats on their home turf: Softfunding
Over the past decades, the EU innovation system has drifted toward a bureaucratic model. It favors government funded and administrator led initiatives, creating a maze of regulated and documentation heavy grants 📑. These are often awarded to current or former bureaucrats who frequently lack real world technical or commercial experience 🤷♂️.
In many cases, these non commercial and career driven bureaucrats have managed to rise to the top of even the most prestigious and well funded innovation and startup promoting advisory initiatives in Europe, without any significant commercial accomplishments to show for it ❌🏆.
After more than 10 years working on the commercial frontlines of this system in Denmark, which is arguably one of the most heavily subsidized and bureaucratically entangled versions of these practices, I have seen firsthand how this model stifles and kills the growth of truly competitive and excellence driven ecosystems of innovation in Europe.
Softseed.ai was created to flip the script.
We empower scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to outplay the bureaucrats on their own turf. We use AI to navigate and unlock the soft funding system 🤖🔓.
🎯 Our goal is simple. Return the innovation agenda of Europe to where it truly belongs:
Commercial Innovators and Investors 💡💼
The tragedy of the so called innovation system in the EU is how it has been entangled by bureaucrats to primarily serve the self interest of bureaucrats 🏢.
We are here to untangle EU innovation funding with AI and give the torch back to those who build
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