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Innovative Startups 2025

This offer is aimed at knowledge-intensive start-ups with great potential in an international market and a sustainable business model. The business idea must have a high level of innovation and be based on unique knowledge assets.

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The offer in brief

What can you apply for?

Funding for activities to ensure that an innovative idea has a market, as well as to test and confirm its potential.

Who can apply?

Limited liability companies with fewer than 10 employees with a net turnover or a balance sheet of a maximum of SEK 10 million, which have not yet distributed profits.

How much can you apply for?

Maximum of SEK 500 000

Important dates

  • How to apply

    To apply for funding, you need to log in and complete an application form in our eServices portal. The application form contains questions about your project, the participants taking part in the project and your budget. 

    Templates and attachments for your application

    Plesae download the templates you need to attach to your application such as a CV or project description. Below you can also find any attachments with useful information for your application.

    Intyg om stöd av mindre betydelse (docx, 51 kB) Declaration of other de minimis aid (docx, 764 kB)

    This happens when the call for proposals is closed.

    Once your proposal has been registered, we will email a confirmation to the person responsible for the user account, as well as the project manager and the signatory. This may take a few hours after the call for proposals closes. If you have not received a confirmation within 24 hours of the call for proposals closing, please contact us.

    Once the call for proposals is closed, you cannot change or fill in any new information. You can only supplement your proposal if we ask you to.

    Who can read your proposal?

    Applications submitted to us become public documents. However, we do not disclose information about operations, inventions or research results if it can be assumed that someone will suffer financial harm if the information is disclosed.

    This means that we must disclose the documents if someone requests them. However, we keep confidential the information that we believe could cause financial damage if disclosed.

    How we handle public documents and confidentiality

    Information about the offer coming soon

    As soon as this offer opens for the application, we will publish complete information. We will describe, for example, what you can apply for, how much you can apply for and what we assess your application for.

    How to apply

    To apply for funding from us, you need to fill in a longer application, which we then assess in competition with others. If we decide to finance your project, you need to report to us how the project is going, so that we can see that you carry out the project as you described in the application.

    How to apply for and receive funding from us

    Any questions?

    If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

    Reference number 2024-04264