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Climate Innovation Body

Headquarters

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Focus

Climate Innovation & Systems Change

Overview

EIT Climate-KIC is the European Union's climate innovation organisation, operating venture support alongside city, regional, and industrial transformation programmes.

Its framing is deliberately broader than startup acceleration: the organisation argues that individual companies rarely shift emissions without the surrounding system changing too.

Program Structure

Accelerator programmes for early climate ventures across Europe
Grant funding rather than equity in many programmes
Systemic demonstration projects with cities and regions
Education and skills programmes for the climate transition
Large partner network across European industry and academia

What They Look For

Ventures with measurable climate impact potential
European founders or European deployment plans
Willingness to work with public sector partners
Solutions across energy, food, mobility, and the built environment
Teams comfortable with grant reporting requirements

Notable Portfolio

Companies they've backed.

Supported ventures span circular materials, sustainable agriculture, urban systems, and clean energy across the European Union.

Because much of its support is grant-based, it reaches companies at stages where equity investors are not yet interested.

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