{"id":438746,"date":"2025-10-28T17:07:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/10\/28\/nasce-lo-scaleup-europe-fund-la-commissione-ue-accelera-sugli-investimenti-nelle-tecnologie-avanzate\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T17:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T16:54:32","slug":"scaleup-europe-fund-launch-eu-commission-accelerates-investment-in-advanced-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/10\/28\/scaleup-europe-fund-launch-eu-commission-accelerates-investment-in-advanced-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaleup Europe Fund launch: EU Commission accelerates investment in advanced technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The European Commission has expressed its willingness to push ahead with a new fund for European business development<\/strong>, the Scaleup Europe Fund<\/strong>. The funding will have an as-yet-undefined endowment, but the Commission spoke of a “multi-billion” amount<\/strong><\/span>. The recipients will be EU companies operating in strategic advanced technology sectors<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The EU body will not be alone in the construction of this project, but will work in synergy with the European Investment Bank (EIB)<\/strong> and potential private-sector investors. Foundations and financial institutions have been consulted; in Italy, the <\/span>Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo<\/strong> and the <\/span>Fondazione Cariplo <\/strong>may participate.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Scaleup Europe Fund will be dedicated to medium-sized companies that have already identified a sustainable business model<\/strong> and aim to expand rapidly.<\/strong> These types of companies are referred to as “scale-ups<\/a>“, which differ from the newer “startups<\/a>“. The aim of the fund is to enable faster development, offering European entrepreneurs the means to close the gap<\/strong> with the world leaders.<\/p>\n

“Europe has the ideas and the talent to create the most innovative companies in the world<\/strong>,” commented the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong>, emphasising, however, that “as these companies grow, we need to ensure that they have the means to thrive right here at home. On this depend high-quality jobs<\/strong>“. <\/p>\n

In Europe, there is no shortage of success stories. The most famous is Klarna, a Swedish fintech specialising in instalment payments, which in just a few years has reached a valuation of more than 14 billion<\/strong>. The gap with the United States, however, remains enormous: in the period 2021\u20132023, there were only 178 companies in the EU with a valuation of <\/strong>USD 500 million to USD 10 billion,<\/strong> as opposed to <\/span>1,496 in the United States.<\/strong> Data highlighted by the EIB’s 2024 report “The scale-up gap<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

The Commission has the not-so-easy intention of reversing this course. According to the announced plans, a public call for tender for the selection of the management company<\/strong> will be published shortly, with the aim that the Scaleup Europe Fund will be able to start its first investments in the spring of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The package will have a “multi-billion” endowment and will come into operation in spring 2026. The EIB and various European foundations, including Fondazione Cariplo and Compagnia di San Paolo, will contribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7891,"featured_media":237360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[32468,25911,26884,32469],"class_list":["post-438746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-aiuti-finanziari","tag-bei-en","tag-commissione-ue-en","tag-scale-up"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438747,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438746\/revisions\/438747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}