Neotec Grant
Funds Spanish technology ventures from concept into validated innovation through early and follow-on development.
Neotec is CDTI's flagship non-refundable grant for newly created Spanish technology start-ups whose business strategy is based on the development of their own technology or the use of knowledge developed from research activity. Projects in which the business model is based on services to third parties (without proprietary technology development) are NOT eligible.
Funding amounts: - Standard grant…
Spanish technology start-ups developing their own technology across any sector, with R&D-intensive business model. Recent calls have funded ICT, biotech, medtech, advanced manufacturing, and other deep-tech areas. Industrial-sector startups have been increasingly represented.
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