The 100-To-Watch is EIT Culture & Creativity’s portfolio of the most promising ventures in Culture and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSI) from across Europe.
Spanning a wide range of activities, these ventures reflect the ambitions of EIT Culture & Creativity to build a robust and resilient ecosystem of entrepreneurs that can lead digital, green and societal transitions.
This unique and ever-expanding collection highlights ventures with significant potential for impact.
All of these have received support through EIT Culture & Creativity's business creation and innovation activities like:
- Access to markets: Providing entry points to our wide network of pan-European players for potential cooperation, proof of concepts, partnership agreements and more.
- Access to skills: We continuously develop these ventures and prepare them for their growth strategy, whether this is market expansion or fund raising.
- Access to talent: Growing ventures require securing the best talents in Europe. Through our job board and network, we provide a platform to find the right talent at the right time.
- Access to finance: Members of this prestigious list get prime gain priority links to our network of investors, Demo Days, pitching sessions and financial instruments co-developed with financial partners.
- Seal of excellence: This list ensures that startups and scale-ups are prepared to represent the culture and creative sectors to partners and investors from across Europe.
Through our Business Creation and Innovation programmes, startups can access this list by entering into equity and quasi-equity agreements with EIT Culture & Creativity.