Energy Dome is an Italian startup that works in the energy sector and has done so since it was founded in 2019. It helps to solve one of the key infrastructure problems in modern energy, which is long-term energy storage. The company has gone through a number of funding rounds since being founded, with a total of six investors supporting the business in its mission to change the energy market. The total funding raised from the investors is approx. $22 Million and was supported by 360 Capital one of Italy's main Start-up investors. They employ around 31 people.

Satispay is a smart payment platform that enables individuals to pay in affiliated stores (online and offline), exchange money with friends and set aside small amounts of money. Businesses can accept payment from customers by integrating their in-store payment application to their smartphone, tablet, and PC systems. The company also offers e-commerce plugins and customized links for online stores to receive payments. Satispay has also integrated with PagoPA for the payment of fines, taxes, stamps and health tickets, which can be made directly from the Services section within the app, where it is also already possible to top-up phone credit with Italy’s main operators. They have raised approx. $471 Million in founding are considered a unicorn and employ aroun 428 people.

Scalapay is an innovative payment method which allows a customer to defer a payment through three interest-free instalments. The buy now pay later service is available in over 7.000 physical stores and in the e-stores of more than 5.000 brands. The cost of the service is totally free for the customer and is financed by a commission applied to retailers who are immediately paid for their product. They have raised approx. $727 Million in founding are considered a unicorn and employ aroun 225 people.

Buzzoole is a marketing services company that automates, manages and measures investments with influencers. Its end-to-end platform uses cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence technology to simplify every stage of the creator marketing process. Buzzoole serves in the region of 850 international brands and boasts a community of more than 270,000 creators from all over the world. Founded in 2013 the company has a growing presence in a number of locations globally, including Italy, the U.S. and UK. They have raised approx. $15.5 Million in founding and employ around 66 people.

ProntoPro.it is Italy's largest local service marketplace, expanding internationally. We help millions of customers to find a local service professional: they cover 600+ services, ranging from wedding photographers to plumbers to guitar teachers. They are the market leader in Italy, Turkey as well as Romania and Egypt. They have raised approx. $30.4 Million in founding and employ around 230 people.

EnduroSat is a Bulgarian deep tech startup that engineers, builds, and operates nanosatellites, and is one of the fastest-growing space companies in Europe. The company’s offerings enable commercial and research customers to launch their Earth-observation payloads into space at the shortest-ever lead time of six months – a 10- fold reduction – and share the data they generate in a common cloud. This will enable costs to be reduced by 15 times, with practically no risk in space operations for the customer, which in its turn contributes to the commercialization of space. Over the summer of 2020, in-space transportation provider Momentus announced agreements with EnduroSat to provide transportation for two CubeSats scheduled to launch soon on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare. More recently, following the successful collaboration on Kuwait’s first CubeSat mission, Orbital Space signed a new partnership with EnduroSat, with the goal to introduce more space services in the Middle East. They have raised approx. $16 Million in founding and employ around 98 people.

Cash Credit is an innovative FinTech company offering micro-finance services in cooperation with mobile telecom operators and other partners. The company was founded in 2011 in Bulgaria and has expanded internationally, launching operations in Africa, and South-East Asia, and exploring opportunities in other markets around the world. They have raised approx. $25 Million in founding and employ around 109 people.

Software Group is a global technology company specialized in digitalization and integration solutions for financial service providers. They help FSPs successfully go through the process of digital transformation, extend their outreach and improve operational efficiency. They have raised approx. $26 Million in founding and employ around 337 people.

phyre is a mobile app that turns your phone into a digital wallet. You can use it to easily shop anywhere with a POS and online. At the same time you can store all of your loyalty cards in the app and use them directly from your phone. phyre also allows you to send and receive money instantly and with no fees within the community. Pay and track spending to optimise your budget. For less than a year phyre has enabled the two biggest telecoms in Bulgaria (A1 Telekom Austria and Vivacom) and the Bulgarian American Credit Bank with cutting-edge solutions. Together with phyre’s own branded wallet, we have a total of more than 300 000 users by now. They have raised approx. $13 Million in founding and employ around 24 people.

Metrilo helps direct-to-consumer brands scale faster while saving time on monitoring performance. With Metrilo, founders are able to grow brands and keep ROI under control. One-click integration available for major eCommerce platforms. They have raised approx. $1 Million in founding which was supported by LaunchHub Ventures and Eleven Accelerator two of Bulgarias Start-up investors. They employ around 16 people.

CloudCart is developing a new globally-focused SaaS project in the field of e-commerce, bearing the same name as the brand – “CloudCart” – a complete e-commerce platform, enhanced by marketing. The idea of ​​CloudCart is to be a high-end professional solution for creating and maintaining online stores, which is used by non-professional retailers who want to start and develop their online business. CloudCard’s primary goal is to improve and facilitate the process of managing online stores by actually helping online retailers focus on what they do best: creating, sourcing, and selling their products and services online. They have raised approx. $13 Million in founding and employ around 24 people. Further they were listede in Deloittes Technology Deloitte Fast 50 Central Europe 2020 list.

Quantive (formerly Gtmhub) is the world’s leading Strategy Execution Platform based on the OKR management methodology. By embedding strategic context, priorities, and progress into the day-to-day, Quantive creates organizations that excel at execution. With over 2,000 global customers across enterprises, not-for-profits, startups, and governments, Quantive helps today's businesses accelerate growth and transformational change by creating better visibility and organizational alignment.They have raised approx. $161 Million in founding and employ around 351 people. Further they were listede in Deloittes Technology Deloitte Fast 50 Central Europe 2022 list.

Augmenta is a deep-tech company serving farmers and agricultural service providers with both intuitive and actionable solutions. The company is the first in the sector globally, combining reliability with scalability. The technology is based on edge computing, multispectral computer vision, and AI to achieve an accurate perception of the farming environment (e.g. the canopy health) and automate tasks, such as fertilizer application. They have raised approx. $11 Million in founding and employ around 52 people.

Ferryhopper breaks new ground in ferry traveling and island hopping by enabling travelers to find, compare, and book ferry tickets for one or multiple destinations at the best price - all in one App. They have raised approx. $8.2 Million in founding and employ around 52 people.

Viva Wallet is a leading European cloud-based neobank. Viva Wallet’s mission is to change the way businesses pay and get paid with cutting edge technology and unprecedented agility. They offer truly unifying, yet localized, end-to-end advanced digital payments solutions and embedded banking services tailored to the needs of businesses in 24 markets across the continent. They have raised approx. $189 Million in founding are considered a unicorn and employ aroun 861 people.

Beat gives consumers a fresh transportation experience by connecting them in real time with nearby available drivers. They have raised approx. $6.8 Million in founding and employ around 813 people.

Spotawheel is the fastest growing used cars platform in Europe, using efficient and customer centric proprietary technology to empower people to buy a reliable car. They have raised approx. $19.3 Million in founding and employ around 160 people.

Welcome goes above and beyond the commoditized transfer service as the first company to deliver a holistic, in-destination travel experience. From the moment a traveler arrives in a new destination, until they return home, Welcome accommodates all their travel needs (transfers, travel products, things to do, information) as the easiest, friendliest and most personalized solution. They have raised approx. $6.8 Million in founding and employ around 75 people.

The central mission of the EIF is to support Europe's small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) by helping them to access finance. To this end, EIF aims at satisfying existing and future market needs by designing innovative financial products addressed to partners (banks, guarantee, leasing and microfinance institutions, private equity and venture capital funds, among others), acting as our financial intermediaries. By offering an Integrated Risk Finance Product Range of SME finance to intermediaries, EIF complement the products offered by the European Investment Bank (EIB) with which we form the EIB Group. The EIF intermediaries present in each EU country can be found under the following link: https://www.eif.org/what_we_do/where/index.htm

The InvestEU Advisory Hub supports the identification, preparation and development of investment projects across the European Union.The InvestEU Advisory Hub connects project promoters and intermediaries with advisory partners, who work directly together to help projects reach the financing stage.

The European Investment Bank is the lending arm of the European Union. They are the biggest multilateral financial institution in the world. Start- ups can take out loans or acquire venture debts.

The competition supports innovators to develop their ideas into working solutions, and facilitates a network of radical innovators shaping our society. This prize acknowledges the social innovation as a potent approach for responding to societal challenges. The European Social Innovation Competition (EUSIC) awards three Challenge Prizes and one Impact Prize for the best socially innovative projects for a more inclusive, just and sustainable Europe.

The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind game-changing innovations. In doing so, the EU seeks to raise awareness of the need for more women innovators, and create role models for women and girls everywhere.The prize is awarded to the most talented women entrepreneurs from across the EU and countries associated to Horizon Europe, who have founded a successful company and brought innovation to the market. The prize is managed by the European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency, and the winners are chosen by an independent expert jury.

The European Innovation Procurement Awards aim to recognise public and private buyers, natural persons and those legal entities supporting these practices across Europe in their efforts to promote and stimulate innovation procurement and the innovative ways the solutions are procured.The Awards also aims to demonstrate how innovation procurement positively transforms the economy by not only creating new and sustainable markets, but also by tackling societal challenges such as climate change.

The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions. It offers a search format to find local contact points in EU countries which offer advice, support and opportunities for international partnerships https://een.ec.europa.eu/local-contact-pointsThe Network is active worldwide. It brings together experts from member organisations that are renowned for their excellence in business support.