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EIT Food Seedbed Venture Catalyst (formerly Seedbed Incubator)

EIT Food Seedbed Incubator

Status

Status not published

No central call dates published; Seedbed Venture Catalyst is delivered through partner venture builders (Carbon13, Enviu, FOOD FOUNDERS Studio, Fresh Ventures Studio, Ivoro Ventures, Kost Studio, Zinc).

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Amount
Not published

Catalytic 'smart funding' for early-stage costs such as IP licensing, prototyping or first hires, delivered with venture-builder support. Amounts not published on the page.

You must co-fund 0%.

Funder

EIT Food

ppp · supranational

Deadline: Opens irregularly — No central call dates published; Seedbed Venture Catalyst is delivered through partner venture builders (Carbon13, Enviu, FOOD FOUNDERS Studio, Fresh Ventures Studio, Ivoro Ventures, Kost Studio, Zinc).

Your odds
Not published

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.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Researchers, technology owners and aspiring founders in agrifood, supported via partner venture builders (venture-builder programmes decide intake).

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.eitfood.eu/entrepreneurship/launch-seedbed-venture-catalyst

"Seedbed Venture Catalyst is a partnership with Europe's leading Venture Building programmes, offering catalytic funding to ambitious founding teams so they can overcome blockers on their journey."

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: www.eitfood.eu

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