CASSINI Space Entrepreneurship Initiative (myEUspace, Business Accelerator, Prizes, Seed and Growth Funding)

Umbrella of instruments for space start-ups: the myEUspace competition (cash prizes to teams developing apps using Galileo/EGNOS/Copernicus, historically in the tens of thousands of euro per winner, awarded in stages), the CASSINI Business Accelerator (equity-free acceleration, no cash), CASSINI Prizes/Challenges and the CASSINI Seed and Growth Funding facility, a EUR 1 billion EIF-managed equity facility investing via VC funds into space and dual-use companies.

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European Commission (DG DEFIS) with EUSPA and the European Investment Fund

ppp · supranational

Deadline: One call a year — Each CASSINI strand has its own cycle. myEUspace and the CASSINI Challenges have run as annual competitions; the Business Accelerator recruits in cohorts; the equity facility invests continuously through EIF-selected funds.

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.