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A few of you might need obtained an e-mail from the European Fee notifying you that the Step 1 name for the EIC Accelerator goes to shut on October twenty eighth as a substitute of the deliberate December date. Right here's a clarification as to why this occurred. 📅 Grand Opening, Grand Closing Usually, the Step 1 name is open for the complete 12 months as a result of the month-to-month deadline that happens on the primary Tuesday of each month is an inside deadline used to batch the evaluations whereas the general deadline is for the complete 12 months when the decision is definitely open. Closing the decision normally signifies that the EIC is making ready to launch the 2026 Step 1 name early. This very same factor occurred final 12 months as effectively. The Step 1 name for 2024 was closed early (October twenty second 2024 as a substitute of the deliberate December date) and the 2025 name opened already on October twenty ninth, 2024. I subsequently count on that the 2026 name for the EIC Accelerator Step 1 goes to open very quickly after the closure. So what precisely must you do now if you’re at present making ready your Step 1 proposal? 🔄 Change is a Fixed Properly, there are two choices. Both you apply earlier than October twenty eighth and you may submit the proposal precisely as you've ready it, otherwise you wait till after October twenty eighth and observe if the template for Step 1 has modified, which is a chance contemplating that the decision goes to reopen. Template adjustments are a quite common incidence. So it’s fairly probably that there are going to be some adjustments to the template. If any adjustments do happen, then ChatEIC can be up to date as effectively proper afterwards. 💼 Different Notes: Web sites and Pitch Decks Two issues that I generally discover amongst startups are that many nonetheless don't have a correct web site or pitch deck. It is a disgrace as a result of startups are very closely judged on these two since they actually current what the corporate is about. They're imagined to be a visible illustration of the know-how, the mission and what they're making an attempt to perform. I steadily see: 🌐 Web sites 📌 Firms that use Gmail and don't have their very own customized area. 📌 Domains which might be parked with out even a touchdown web page. 📌 Archaic touchdown pages made with WordPress. 📊 Pitch Decks 📌 Decks that learn extra like a doc, are filled with textual content and don’t have any design components. 📌 Shows that seem like the default templates from the early 2000s. 📌 Poor construction that doesn't tackle all of the elements that the industrial pitch deck ought to have (rivals, market, financials, investments). These days, there's no excuse for any of the above as a result of AI might help you polish up each the web site and the pitch deck. You should utilize Lovable or Cursor AI to shortly create a handsome touchdown web page and host it on a customized area for nearly free (see Vercel, Supabase). There are a lot of AI instruments for pitch decks, for instance, Gamma or Genspark AI. It was by no means this straightforward to seem like a VC-funded startup on the floor, so don't miss this chance. 🔗 Hyperlink to the complete publication: https://www.seglerconsulting.com/information/eic-accelerator-step-1-closing-october-2025 #eicaccelerator #startup #eic #eu #smeinstrument #grant #innovation #eugrant #horizoneurope submitted by /u/saws_media to r/EICAccelerator |