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Kickstart your business with EIT Jumpstarter and secure up to 10K€ to launch your idea. Our programme helps turn innovative ideas into sustainable businesses by shaping a solid business model, validating your concept, and guiding you to startup registration. Gain access to a vast network of European connections to scale your business.
Learn MoreOur alumni have made exceptional achievements both financially and in terms of positive impact.
Türkiye
RumiTech develope smart energy solutions that efficiently store renewable energy from the sun and wind.
Slovenia
ReCatalyst develops, produces, and supplies customizable next-generation platinum-alloy catalyst solutions to optimize your usage of your precious metals.
Portugal
Digital health company pioneering a breakthrough AI-platform to accelerate the future of personalized drug discovery and development.
Martim Perestrelo, LUMA Co-Founder & CTOWe learned how to highlight the most important aspects of our business in the pitch deck and […] now understand the main value proposition of our service and what is the essential aspects that juries or investors want to see when they listen to our presentations.
Filip Koprčina, Energy Shift Founder and CEO [EIT Jumpstarter] connected us with an amazing mentor from the relevant VC firm, that helped us improve our pitch deck and frame our ideas in an attractive way from the investor’s perspective, which proved to be successful so far.
Anthony Rosa, Alghètica CEO & FounderThe main thing EIT Jumpstarter taught us is that often start-ups are formed by technical people who speak the same “language”. Still, in some cases, that’s not the case, and in a varied team, it helps to understand better how to communicate appropriately to maximize efficiency.
Miljan Simonovic, NeWay CEO & Co-FounderEIT Jumpstarter had a great impact on our understanding of building a startup company, what are our future tasks, the risks to have in mind, etc. We consider it as a fantastic mentorship programme and during this period, we were exceptionally motivated to continuously work on developing our platform.
Luis Valente, ILoF“I cannot be happier about this prize. We work closely with pharmaceutical companies, so the money will be used to fast track our product in market and make sure our solutions reaches patients as soon as possible”,
Timur Sirman, MagnoTherm team“This joint business bootcamp with Food and Health and RawMaterials all coming together really inspired us and showed us new perspective on our own business idea, and also on the other side working in this international environment really boosted us to do the next step.”
Marios Chryssolouris, Freshstrips CEO“The most important thing we got during the competition is valuable feedback on various aspects of our business and good connections to industry partners and general advice about how to start our business. EIT is down the right road to bring us up to par with innovation capitals like San Francisco.”
Joao Ribas, Nebula-X team CEO“We are very excited to continue this process and learn more for the next steps, and hopefully continue taking advantage of the excellent initiatives that EIT Health promotes.”
Miguel Cerqueira, 2B NanoFood“We can name lots of benefits from the EIT Jumpstarter – we have reached several achievements, made so many contacts, all the mentoring that we had in all these months is measureless, and of course the prize that will help us move forward.”-
