EU: EUDIS Business Accelerator & Matchmaking (BAMM)

EUDIS Business Accelerator & Matchmaking (BAMM) - Driving growth through defence innovation. Goal The EUDIS Business Accelerator and Matchmaking (BAMM) services aim to provide EU innovation support for SMEs and small mid-caps through targeted acceleration, access to finance and matchmaking with end-users, corporates and investors. EUDIS Business Accelerator The EUDIS Business Accelerator aims to enhance start-ups' and scale-ups' companies understanding of the defence environment and end-user needs and strengthen their business development, enter the defence market and go-to-market capabilities. It will improve their access to financing, offer a seed-financing voucher of EUR 65,000 per company, and create opportunities for companies to matchmake with corporates, investors and defence end-users. Moreover, the Business Accelerator will support testing and validation of their innovative products and technologies while enhancing the companies’ matchmaking opportunities with corporates and research facilities. The inaugural EUDIS Business Accelerator batch will support 20 selected start-ups and scale-ups over an 8-month acceleration period. At the end of the program, the companies will demonstrate their achievements to defence end-users from EU Member States and Norway at a prominent tech event or defence exhibition. The initiative is set to scale up in the coming years, expanding its reach to support more companies...