First Imagine! AdapTech Fund Grant
In context
This call is open to startups and small and medium-sized businesses, at prototype and pilot stage, seed stage and Series A. Funding is an equity investment. Coverage is read from the notice itself: the European Union.
European venture capital fund investing in AdapTech innovations that enhance resilience, autonomy, and productivity across energy, water, food, circularity, and Industry 5.0 sectors, with AI-enabled transformation as a cross-cutting theme. Targets scalable early to growth-stage companies.
About this grant
First Imagine! is a European venture capital firm investing in AdapTech, technologies that strengthen resilience, autonomy and productivity in a fragmented and volatile world. Founded in 2016, the firm backs scalable innovations across energy, food, water, industry and digital infrastructure. Its investment thesis centres on adaptation, industrial transformation and emerging technologies that help societies and businesses thrive amid climate stress, supply-chain disruption, geopolitical fragmentation and cyber risk. The firm's sector focus covers distributed energy systems and resilience infrastructure, water and food technologies such as desalination, precision agriculture and food security, circularity including resource recovery and advanced recycling, and Industry 5.0 areas such as robotics, automation and industrial AI. AI-enabled transformation is treated as a cross-cutting theme. The page describes a portfolio of companies across wildfire management, utility software, small gas turbines, PV module recycling, floating solar, fuel cells, textile fibres from agricultural waste, microalgae production, heat pumps, bioinsecticides and microgrid control. It is an investor profile rather than a grant programme; the page does not describe a grant call, application process or funding amounts.
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Eligibility
The page does not state explicit eligibility criteria for applicants. It describes a venture capital investor with offices in Cyprus, Paris and London and a focus on AdapTech companies, but does not specify applicant organisation types, stage or geography for investment.
Key requirements
- ✓Technology must strengthen resilience, autonomy, or productivity in AdapTech focus areas
- ✓Company must be at early to growth stage with scalable innovation potential
- ✓Primary focus on distributed energy systems, microgrids, storage, water/food technologies, resource recovery, or Industry 5.0 with AI-enabled transformation
Frequently asked questions
- Who can apply for First Imagine! AdapTech Fund?
- Eligibility covers organisations in EU; startup, sme. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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