Project funding
Grants for organisations developing innovative, practical environmental solutions, with particular attention to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Funding for climate startups and growing companies
Investment and project grants for companies developing climate solutions. A project grant supports specific work, such as developing an innovative environmental solution. An investor puts money into the company and becomes a part-owner.
Funding opportunities (14)
Grants and tax incentives
Innovation Fund: grants for new climate technology
Grants to demonstrate how new technology can cut climate emissions in practice.
Business Fellowship
A full-time paid fellowship for experienced climate-business professionals to help early-stage climate-technology teams reach market, with an industry-competitive living stipend.
Grant for testing energy-transition innovations with customers
A grant of up to SEK 3 million for Swedish small and medium-sized companies to test and develop an energy-transition innovation with a participating customer.
Loans and other finance
Innovation loan
A SEK 50,000–500,000 loan for Sweden-registered companies testing or prototyping a new climate product, service, process or business model before it reaches the market; Almi can cover up to half of project costs.
Investment in the company
GreenTech
Investment in Swedish startups whose solutions deliver measurable benefits for the climate or nature.
Investment in industrial climate technology
Investment of €1–5 million for European companies bringing physical, science-based climate technology from early commercialisation towards industrial scale.
Investment in energy, industry and health technology
Equity investment for early-stage and growth companies using technology to tackle climate-relevant energy or industry problems; Norrsken VC also invests in healthcare.
Investment in digital energy technology
SET usually invests €2–5 million initially in European digital-energy companies and receives an ownership stake rather than repayment of a loan.
Investment in green technology
An initial €500,000–€4 million investment for mainly European green-technology startups raising an early venture round, formally from pre-seed through Series A.
Investment in climate technology
Venture-capital investment of typically €1–15 million for climate-tech companies raising seed, Series A or Series B funding, with Europe as the main target market.
Venture Builder Cambridge
A three-phase programme for individuals to find co-founders and build a climate-tech startup, with selected teams considered for equity investment.
Cleantech Co-Investment Facility
Equity or equity-like co-investment for EIF-backed fund managers proposing funding rounds for growing cleantech companies in the EU or EFTA.
Investment for early-stage climate technology
Equity investment for founders at the earliest stages developing commercially driven technology to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, remove atmospheric carbon or buy time by cooling the planet.