Unlocking the Potential of Cleantech Innovation in Europe
A comprehensive overview of Europe’s cleantech innovation landscape, highlighting both the maturity and the key challenges holding back the scale-up of clean technologies.
Investing in innovation
Boosting innovation and digitalisation in Europe. Find out more about how we invest.
The drive to innovate and digitalise exists on a spectrum, spanning from modest improvements in daily business, right up to disruptive innovations that change the way we live such as deep tech, space, defence, AI, life sciences & more.
"Our financing helps businesses to keep pace and move into a brighter future."
Innovation and digitalisation is one of our Public Policy Goals (PPGs), which - since 2020 - are guiding EIF's activity. Our efforts in support of EU priorities take the form of thematic interventions with clear policy targets.
Innovative companies across Europe
Flixbus, Germany
Submer, Spain
Spaceflow, Czechia
TecSense, Austria
Union Therapeutics, Denmark
Infarm, Germany
Our products
Here at the EIF we offer a range of financial solutions aimed at fostering innovation & digital transformation. Here is a selection of innovative & digital focussed products. Or you can choose to view our entire product catalogue.
Our impact in 2025
In a changing, digitalising world, Europe’s competitiveness depends on its ability to turn ideas into scale.
In 2025, the EIF committed €4.7bn to innovation, helping strengthen Europe’s technology and digitalisation ecosystem across areas such as deeptech, life sciences, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, space, cybersecurity and defence. Through initiatives such as ETCI, TechEU, InvestEU and TrackVC, we continued to back Europe’s brightest innovators from start-up to scale-up.
Read the full Annual Report to explore the EIF’s impact on innovation in 2025.
Innovation finance over time
Innovation has always been one of our driving forces. Over the years, we have developed different mandates promoting and supporting an always more innovative Europe. Discover our approach to innovation.
InvestEU
Helping to achieve InvestEU objectives by crowding in private funding and supporting Europe’s small businesses. A long-term funding in support of Europe’s sustainable recovery. It helps to mobilise private investments for the EU's top policy priorities, such as the green, and digital transition, innovation and social investments and skills.
Focus areas
Explore some of the areas we invest in within the innovation and digitalisation world. Across several sectors, we have been supporting a significant amount of businesses all around EU. How many are you able to recognise?
In the press
Key publications
Leading EU companies backed by the EIF
