# EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology

> EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology is a VC fund backing Software and SaaS. See 11 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Total investments: 11
- Last investment: Dec 2024
- Lead investor: 45%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/eit-urban-mobility/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/eiturbanmob?lang=en
- Website: https://www.eiturbanmobility.eu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EIT-Urban-Mobility-1951333174955858/

EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology is a VC fund in Barcelona focused on Software and SaaS. EIT Urban Mobility is an initiative of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Since January 2019 we have been working to encourage positive changes in the way people move around cities in order to make them more liveable places. We aim to become the largest European initiative transforming urban mobility. Co-funding of up to €400 million (2020-2026) from the EIT, a body of the European Union, will help make this happen.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 45% |
| SaaS | 2 | 18% |
| Delivery | 2 | 18% |
| Logistics | 2 | 18% |
| Smart Cities | 2 | 18% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grant | 4 | 36% |
| Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 18% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 18% |
| Non-equity Assistance | 1 | 9% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 2 | 18% |
| Sweden | 2 | 18% |
| Germany | 2 | 18% |
| Poland | 1 | 9% |
| Estonia | 1 | 9% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Britenet | Britenet is a professional software house and a business partner specialized in IT experts leasing. | $1.1M | Grant | Dec 16, 2024 |  |
| Bintel | Bintel is a manufacturer of a wearable that helps with better garbage collection. | $1.3M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 21, 2023 |  |
| SaleSqueze | SaleSqueze is a SaaS platform that supports sales of complex and configurable products in global B2B distribution networks. It's very simple to use, yet powerful enough to offer flexibility in today's complex sales and manufacturing environments. Our goal is to help our customers transfer most of the work in sales and configuration ontotheir buyers and thus improve bottom line results, allow their sales teams to reach goals easier and make them easier to buy from. |  | Grant | Jan 03, 2023 |  |
| Antegenes | Antegenes’ novel genetic tests assess a patient’s personal cancer risks, and include clinical recommendations for personalized cancer prevention. The tests are based on innovative polygenic risk score technology which helps to clarify a person’s genetic predispositions to cancer. It therefore allows for more accurate prevention and early detectionmeasures – crucial in the fight with cancer. The tests are currently being used to determine the genetic risk for four cancers: breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and skin melanoma. | $711K | Grant | Aug 02, 2022 |  |
| Optiyol | Optiyol helps freight and passenger transportation operations in cities have increased in volume due to e-commerce and increased urbanization. Legacy route optimization solutions can no longer handle the scale and complexity of these operations and require human intervention which results in overspending for fleet and energy costs and lowercustomer service levels due to late arrivals. Optiyol builds a self-learning optimization engine with comprehensive data models and algorithms to handle all real-life constraints for both efficient and practical route plans. Optiyol's team has over ten years of experience in algorithm engineering and software design with Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech. | $78K | Grant | Feb 14, 2022 |  |
| Elonroad | Elonroad is a high tech electric road concept. It auto charges all types of electric vehicles when parked as well as when driving. Electric roads extend driving range and reduce the need of large and heavy batteries. | $2.6M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 07, 2021 |  |
| ai-omatic solutions | ai-omatic is a deep-tech startup that offers a cloud-based software solution in the field of predictive maintenance that evaluates and visualizes sensor data from machines. ai-omatic's product is a digital maintenance assistant that detects unfavorable machine behavior before it becomes a problem. As a result, unplanned machine downtime can beavoided, maintenance effort can be reduced and plant availability can be increased. Due to the high scalability of the algorithm, the solution can be used for a wide range of use cases and industries. | $800K | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2021 |  |
| Vonzu | VONZU is a SaaS solution for logistics and delivery management, which allows orchestration of the entire supply chain by integrating retailers and logistics operators in the same cloud ecosystem. | $207.7K | Pre-Seed | Jan 18, 2021 |  |
| Skyroads | Skyroads for the automation of Advanced Air Mobility We manage routes, ensure overall safety, and provide flexibility for passenger mobility and cargo transport. Like an intelligent superorganism, all kinds of drones and landing ports will be linked up into one shared system – certified for safety by aviation authorities worldwide. | $3.2M | Seed | Dec 09, 2020 |  |
| HOPU Smart Cities | HOPU aims to create Human Oriented Products (HOPU), it means putting people in the centre and the creation of solutions, thinking always about user experiences and value engineering. We generate urban innovations through the latest technologies such as AI, IoT and Data-Quality. We engage citizens and decision makers, to guarantee that data isunderstandable by everybody, intuitive and usable. We are there to support any decision for urban development and digital transformation through data-powered tools with dashboards, decision support tools and genuine IoT devices to monitor impact, sustainability, environment, noise, weather, air quality status etc. We mix data, technology and people to get a really powerful urban innovation tool. We aim to support the creation of Smart Cities in the present and the future, where citizens and visitors really feel that they are in a Smart City.The main problem that we targeting is to support technicians and urban planners in their decision making process, thereby we aim to guarantee that decisions are considering the right sustainability, climate change, air quality and human-centric indicators. The solution is called Smart Spot which is an integral solution for human-centralised sustainable and scalable Smart Cities.Environmental monitoring solution; covering digital services with dashboard and decision support tools based on AI algorithms compatible with reference platforms as FIWARE. These digital services are complemented by in-situ environment monitors based on IoT technology enabling to monitor noise, people affluence/density and gases: nitrous vapours (NO/NO2), sulphides (H2S/SO2), carbon monoxide/dioxide (CO/CO2), Ozone, and other toxic substances as alcohols, ouds (VOCs); particulate matter (PM) to identify specific nanoparticulate such as dust (PM10), pollens (over PM40), pollutants (PM2.5) and viruses (under PM1). Being able to monitor levels of toxicity, pollution and air quality; with high reliability and data quality (certified and verified by our own certified labs). |  | Non-equity Assistance | Jul 01, 2020 |  |

10 of 11 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Almi Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almi-invest) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Almi Invest GreenTech](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/almi-invest-greentech) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Blockchers](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blockchers) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Bring Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bring-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [EIT Urban Mobility](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eit-urban-mobility) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Enterprise Estonia](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-estonia) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology invest in?

EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Delivery startups, most often at Grant and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology closed in Dec 2024. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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