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The European Innovation Council's Accelerator backs single startups, SMEs, and small mid-caps carrying a "game changing" innovation from Technology Readiness Level 6 toward market, blending a grant of under EUR 2.5 million with an equity investment of EUR 1 to 10 million under what the EIC calls a patient capital principle. Open to applicants from EU Member States and Horizon Europe-associated countries, against rolling cut-off dates through the year. Seen through the Symbiotic Design Framework, that grant-plus-equity structure is a working case of Mutualism: capital and market access for the innovator, mission-oriented return for the funder.