Matchmaking for Industry 4.0

The project is funded under the Horizon Europe Programme – brings together leading research and innovation actors to establish the Baltic Sea Region countries – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Poland – as a cross-border, inclusive and gender equal deep tech innovation ecosystem with the main goal to support companies, startups and entrepreneurs to showcase innovative technologies, attract investment and reach global markets.

FINEST SCALEUP addresses the lack of scale-up funding for startups from “Less Connected and Developing Innovation Ecosystems”, particularly women-led, and from the deep tech sector.  

Objective

This project marks the FinEst Centre´s commitment to bring together and scale up the innovation ecosystem for smart cities green and sustainable deep tech solutions, supporting companies, start-ups and entrepreneurs to showcase innovative solutions, technologies, in order to attract investment and reach global markets.

Following 3 key objectives are presented:

• Improve the capacity and strength of “Less Connected and Developing Innovation Ecosystems” by enhancing their gender-inclusiveness, openness, competitiveness, and global potential, targeting in particular the green and sustainable deep tech based innovations.

• Attracting foreign investors into the FINEST SCALEUP ecosystem by raising awareness of local innovation ecosystems and deep tech startups, as well as the potential of the whole region, to capital providers from across Europe and beyond (also giving special attention to women-led investments).

• Help emerging deep tech innovators and startups to secure foreign investments in order to accelerate their growth, competitiveness and access international markets.

More about the project: https://finestcentre.eu/project/finest-scaleup/