Thanks to EIF’s unrivalled breadth of reach across the European Venture Capital landscape, the Ugly Duck community represents European innovation at its best. It stretches across 340 new, emerging and established teams – investing in industries such as cleantech, deep-tech, life sciences and more.

The community is able to discuss latest industry trends, challenges and future optics. Together, we have witnessed the European market go from strength to strength and develop from an ugly duckling to a beautiful swan.

The Ugly Duck is EIF’s annual venture capital event, which brings together the European VC community for an afternoon of networking, talks and discussion in Luxembourg.

As the Ugly Duck host, the EIF – using its 25+ years’ experience in developing the European VC market – shares data-driven market insights, as well as inviting leading sector experts from across Europe to share their knowledge.