EIT Culture & Creativity has secured three additional agreements that extend the benefits available to startups across its Incubation, Acceleration, Post-Acceleration and Innovation Programmes.
Through new collaborations with OpenVC, Dealflow.eu and Miro, our startup community gains stronger access to investors and new AI-powered tools to help founders move from idea to execution faster.
Direct access to investors through OpenVC
Startups can now tap into OpenVC, an online platform and directory that connects founders with active VCs and angel investors. The platform enables founders to search for investors by geography, industry and funding stage, and includes tools such as AI-powered pitch deck reviews and a built-in CRM to manage the fundraising process in one place.
Through this agreement, eligible startups receive:
- Access to the Free Forever plan
- A 20% lifetime discount, automatically applied to any upgrade
Warm investor introductions through a Dealflow.eu pilot
Access to funding remains one of the most significant barriers to growth for creative and cultural ventures. Investor ecosystems in gaming, digital culture and cultural technologies remain comparatively fragmented and underdeveloped. To address this, EIT Culture & Creativity has launched a pilot agreement with Dealflow.eu, complementing our internal investment expertise with specialised investor intelligence, mapping and outreach.
Through the pilot, Dealflow.eu provides investor qualification, targeted mapping, prioritisation and warm introductions, enabling participating ventures to focus their fundraising efforts on the investors most relevant to their stage and sector, rather than relying on broad databases or cold outreach.
The agreement has already delivered strong early results, with more than 600 investors identified and mapped, over 200 onboarded as active contacts, and more than 70 grant and funding opportunities analysed across EU programmes, national schemes and sector-specific instruments – building a lasting resource for the wider portfolio well beyond the life of the pilot.
An AI-powered innovation workspace with Miro
EIT Culture & Creativity has also partnered with Miro, the AI-powered innovation workspace that brings people and AI together on one shared canvas – from research and ideation through to design and launch. With multiplayer AI tools such as Sidekicks, Flows and Prototypes, founders can synthesise insights, validate ideas and prototype faster than ever, helping teams move from idea to outcome with fewer resources.
As part of the Miro Startup Programme, eligible founders receive:
- $1,000 in Miro credits
- Enterprise-grade collaboration tools
- Curated startup learning resources, including guided courses and templates to help teams get started quickly.
- Later-stage startups with ten or more employees can also explore Miro Enterprise, built for growing teams that need governance, security and advanced collaboration features, with up to 25% off via Miro's dedicated Growth Offer.
Building on existing EIT Culture & Creativity tech agreements
These three new benefits come in addition to the eight tech partnerships announced by EIT Culture & Creativity in March 2026, which brought cloud, AI and growth tools to startups across our programmes. In brief, these partnerships gave founders access to:
- NVIDIA: fast-tracked consideration for NVIDIA Inception through the NVIDIA VC Alliance, plus cloud credits and technical support
- AWS: up to $10,000 in cloud credits over two years via AWS Activate
- OVHcloud: €25,000 in cloud credits over 12 months through our internal referral process
- Render: $5,000 in cloud credits per startup
- Make: a free year of the Make Teams plan for workflow automation
- Lovable: 10,000 AI development credits in year one for building full-stack applications
- HubSpot: up to 90% off CRM, marketing, sales and customer success tools
- Notion: six months of Notion Business, including Notion AI
Together, these deals reflect our ongoing commitment to equipping founders with the tools, infrastructure and investor access they need to build faster, scale smarter and compete globally.
For more information about joining our portfolio and unlocking these benefits, please visit our pages for entrepreneurs and innovators.